International Business Machines Corporation

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Justin W Wong

Richard L Kleinhenz

Brian Christopher Barker

Gary R Moore

Mark L Reath

Edward P Higgins

Ingo Meents

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.

Manufacturing management using tool operating data

A method of simulating a production process on the basis of a continuous fluid model with discrete time evolution is described. The method of simulating makes use of assigning production and processing resources of various stations of the fluid model to various fluids with respect to a priority identifier of the fluids. Division of the station resources to various fluids is further based on a momentary amount of the various fluids. Based on the assignment of the station resources to the various fluids, the time evolution of the fluid amounts are determined without having to perform time and resource consuming optimization. Additionally, assignment of station resources can be manually and temporarily modified by a fluid manipulation means allowing for a universal and dynamic modification of the behavior of particular stations without interrupting or affecting the entire simulation process.

Simulation of production processes by means of continuous fluid models

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