Patent Document ID: 20050143952
Application ID: 11003829
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for generating a multivariate analysis model expression used to evaluate an apparatus state of a processing apparatus or to predict processing results to be achieved in the processing apparatus through multivariate analysis, comprising: a first step in which a correlation of detection data provided by a plurality of sensors in the processing apparatus with first setting data is ascertained through multivariate analysis for each processing apparatus among a plurality of processing apparatuses that operate based upon the first setting data; a second step in which a correlation of detection data provided by the plurality of sensors in one of the plurality of processing apparatuses designated as a reference processing apparatus when the reference processing apparatus operates based upon new second setting data with the second setting data is ascertained through multivariate analysis; a third step in which a correlation of detection data with the second setting data in another processing apparatus that is not the reference processing apparatus is ascertained based upon the correlation determined through the first step for the other processing apparatus, the correlation determined through the first step for the reference processing apparatus and the correlation determined through the second step for the reference processing apparatus; and a fourth step in which a multivariate analysis model expression to be used to evaluate an apparatus state of the other processing apparatus or to predict processing results in the other processing apparatus is generated based upon the correlation thus ascertained.