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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Ren-Chyi You, Yilan County, TW;
An-Wei Peng, Hsinchu, TW;
Chang-Zong Liu, Hsinchu, TW;
Jun-Sheng Yeh, New Taipei, TW;
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A method is disclosed and includes determining whether there is any WIP information with one or more process constraints in a process constraint database that is coupled with a manufacturing execution system; determining whether there is a dispatching rule in the dispatching rule database that is coupled with a dispatching system; generating a tool-lot relationship based on at least one of the process constraints and the dispatching rule; utilizing the tool-lot relationship to assign one or more lots to one or more tools respectively.