Patent ID: 7738987

Claim:
A control device for controlling a substrate processing apparatus, the apparatus including a plurality of processing chambers that perform a specified process on a substrate and a transfer mechanism that transfers the substrate, the control device comprising: a selection unit that selects a processing chamber to which a next substrate is to be transferred, and selects, for each substrate lot, whether the substrates are transferred to the same processing chamber in one-lot units or in one-substrate units depending on a degree of microfabrication requested for each lot; a transfer control unit that sequentially transfers the substrates in the units selected by the selection unit to the processing chamber selected by the selection unit; and a storage unit that stores an order of the processing chambers as are used to process the substrate, wherein the selection unit selects, according to the order of the processing chambers stored in the storage unit, the processing chamber that has spent most amount of time since a last process among a processing chamber group specified in a recipe, and the transfer control unit sequentially transfers the substrates in the selected units to the selected processing chamber.