Patent ID: 7953512

Claim:
A substrate processing system, comprising: a substrate processing unit which is adapted for storing therein a plurality of substrates including unprocessed substrates and processed substrates respectively arranged in a multistage fashion as well as adapted for providing a heating process and a gas supplying process to the plurality of substrates, so as to form a film on each of the plurality of substrates; a pattern obtaining unit adapted for obtaining information about an arrangement pattern concerning arrangement of the unprocessed substrates and processed substrates among the plurality of the substrates; a first memory unit adapted for storing therein an arrangement/film-forming-amount model indicative of influence exerted on a film-forming amount on the substrates by the arrangement pattern concerning the arrangement of the unprocessed substrates and processed substrates among the plurality of substrates; a calculation unit adapted for calculating an estimated film-forming amount on the substrates, in the case of the arrangement pattern obtained by the pattern obtaining unit, based on the arrangement/film-forming-amount model stored in the first memory unit; a determination unit adapted for determining whether or not the estimated film-forming amount calculated by the calculation unit is within a predetermined range; and a control unit adapted for controlling and driving the substrate processing unit to process the substrates when the estimated film-forming amount calculated by the calculation unit is determined to be within the predetermined range.