Patent ID: 7299147

Claim:
A system for managing production information, comprising: a defect information database for storing defect information which is detected in a device manufacturing line by using plural inspection apparatuses which inspect a specimen; a defect information collection unit which at least one of collates and retrieves defect information from the defect information database and judges a fatality of a defect, and when the defect is judged to have a high fatality, establishes a correlative relationship between the defect and past defect data stored in the defect information database; and a manufacturing apparatus information managing unit which stores a defect occurring condition and a defect solution condition outputted from the defect information collection unit; wherein the defect information stored in the defect information database is detected by the plural inspection apparatuses, at least one of the plural inspection apparatuses being equipped with an illumination optical unit having an ultraviolet light illumination light source, a detection optical unit having a time delay integration image sensor which detects an optical image of the device, and an image processing unit which processes a signal outputted from the time delay integration sensor by the detection of the optical image; and wherein the illumination optical unit of the at least one of the plural inspection apparatuses illuminates the specimen with an ultraviolet light having plural wavelengths emitted from the ultraviolet light illumination light source.