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20080238699 | REAL TIME ALARM CLASSIFICATION AND METHOD OF USE - A real time alarm classification system and method of use and, more particularly, to a residual gas analyzer configured to identify specific root causes of an abnormal condition such as, for example, contamination, undesirable process variability and equipment malfunction in wafer processing. The real-time alarm classification system comprises a computer infrastructure operable to: generate top contributors associated with an alarm triggered by sensed abnormal conditions; compare the top contributors to contributors of historic RGA (residual gas analyzer) alarms of known root causes that were generated by a validated model; and provide a probable root cause of the sensed abnormal conditions when a match is found between the top contributors and the contributors associated with the historic RGA alarms of known root causes. A method and computer readable medium is also contemplated to provide the processes. | 10-02-2008 |
20090048701 | METHOD FOR REPORTING THE STATUS AND DRILL-DOWN OF A CONTROL APPLICATION IN AN AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed are embodiments that provide near real-time monitoring of a control application in a manufacturing environment to detect and determine the root cause of faults within the control application. The embodiments monitor the flow of data within the control application during events (i.e., transactions, stages, process steps, etc.). By comparing a dataflow path for a near real-time event with historical dataflow path records, dataflow interruptions (i.e., fails) within the control application can be detected. By determining the location of such a dataflow interruption, the root cause of the control application fail can be determined. Additionally, the invention can generate summary reports indicating the status of the control application. For example, the summary reports can quantify the performance and/or the effectiveness of the control application. These summary reports can further be generated with drill downs to provide a user with direct access to the records upon which the reports were based. | 02-19-2009 |
20090049345 | TOOL FOR REPORTING THE STATUS AND DRILL-DOWN OF A CONTROL APPLICATION IN AN AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed are embodiments that provide near real-time monitoring of a control application in a manufacturing environment to detect and determine the root cause of faults within the control application. The embodiments monitor the flow of data within the control application during events (i.e., transactions, stages, process steps, etc.). By comparing a dataflow path for a near real-time event with historical dataflow path records, dataflow interruptions (i.e., fails) within the control application can be detected. By determining the location of such a dataflow interruption, the root cause of the control application fail can be determined. Additionally, the invention can generate summary reports indicating the status of the control application. For example, the summary reports can quantify the performance and/or the effectiveness of the control application. These summary reports can further be generated with drill downs to provide a user with direct access to the records upon which the reports were based. | 02-19-2009 |
20100063610 | METHOD OF PROCESS MODULES PERFORMANCE MATCHING - A method and system employing said method for analyzing process module performance in semiconductor manufacturing. The method and system include process modules as part of a process tool. A process initiated in the process module includes steps. Each step includes specified performance parameters. A detection device detects at least one predetermined measurement in the process module. A program and processor generate data about the process module and steps and generates data about the steps and the process module. The program provides statistical analysis of the steps and the environment of the process module using the generated data and the performance parameters. The program determines variations between the process step performance parameters and the generated data about the process steps. | 03-11-2010 |
20110288668 | Manufacturing Management Using Tool Operating Data - A solution for managing a manufacturing environment using operating data for each of a plurality of tools in the manufacturing environment. The operating data can include actual resource consumption data and/or actual exhaust generation data for a tool while the tool implements at least a portion of a recipe to manufacture one of a plurality of types of products manufactured in the manufacturing environment. Operation of the manufacturing environment can be configured to optimize one or more aspects of resource consumption and/or exhaust generation during the manufacture of desired quantities of the plurality of types of products within a desired time frame using the operating data. | 11-24-2011 |
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20090241059 | EVENT DRIVEN SMOOTH PANNING IN A COMPUTER ACCESSIBILITY APPLICATION - A method for facilitating accessibility of a computer system is described. A dynamic image, which is associated with the video output of the computer system, is displayed on the computer system's monitor. Once the computer system detects an event from the computer system, wherein the event causes a magnified area of the dynamic image to change from a current location in the dynamic image, the computer system determines a preferred location in the dynamic image based on the event. Based on the preferred location, the computer system generates a path from the current location to the preferred location, wherein the path includes a plurality of locations, which include the current location, the preferred location and a plurality of intermediate locations. Following the generation of the path, magnified areas associated with each viewing location in the path are displayed on the computer system's monitor in succession. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 09-24-2009 |
20110225544 | FLEXIBLE DISPLAY OF VISUAL CONTENT ON MULTIPLE DISPLAY DEVICES - Mechanisms to allow a user to flexibly display visual content on multiple display devices connected to a computer. Each of the multiple displays may be configured to display a portion of visual content from a computer desktop or from an external content source. Each portion of visual content to be outputted may first be enhanced, such as via magnification, before being displayed on one of the multiple display devices. The user may be provided with a first control that enables the user to adjust a portion of visual content displayed on a first display device independently of a portion of visual content displayed on a second display device. A second control may also be provided that enables the user to adjust the portion of visual content displayed on the second display device independently of the portion of visual content displayed on the first display device. | 09-15-2011 |
20110283227 | DISPLAYING A USER INTERFACE IN A DEDICATED DISPLAY AREA - Some embodiments are directed to techniques for displaying a user interface of an application program on a display device. The display device may be partitioned into two portions, such that the user interface and a computer desktop are displayed in separate portions of the display. As a result, the user interface does not overlap or obscure any portion of the displayed desktop. | 11-17-2011 |
20110283243 | DEDICATED ON-SCREEN CLOSED CAPTION DISPLAY - Methods and apparatus for displaying closed-captioning content on a display device. In response to determining that closed-captioning is desired, a display area of the display device is partitioned into non-overlapping portions. A first portion of the display area is configured to display the closed-captioning content and a second portion of the display area is configured to display a computer desktop. The closed-captioning content may be transformed by replacing at least some text in the closed-captioning content with at least one symbol based, at least in part, on a context of the at least some text in the closed-captioning content. | 11-17-2011 |