Patent ID: 7487003

Claim:
A computer implemented system that tracks a parent lot of items being manufactured, comprising the following computer executable components that are stored on a computer readable medium: a receiver component that receives control logics for manufacturing a parent lot that includes one or more sublots, the sublots include a plurality of items being manufactured and the control logics includes information relating to a control system, a control process, a bandwidth of a control system, and a bandwidth of a control process; a tracking component that performs an analysis on the control logics, automatically tracks each of the sublots across multiple processes during manufacture of the items and associates data from the sublots with a plurality of virtual sublots that represent the sublots being manufactured; and a partitioning component that determines a size of one or more of the sublots and a number of sublots the parent lot contains based at least in part on the analysis of the control logics and automatically creates the plurality of virtual sublots and further associates each of the sublots with the plurality of virtual sublots, wherein the number of virtual sublots created is equal to the number of sublots.