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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2015
Screen Holdings Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Masahiro Yamamoto, Kyoto, JP;
SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A technique to prevent reduction in throughput of a substrate processing apparatus. On the occurrence of an event disabling execution of a recipe by a processing unit, a different recipe executed by this processing unit may be used depending on the type of event having occurred. The type of event to occur and a substitute recipe that can take the place of a recipe being executed are associated in advance. On the occurrence of abnormality, it is determined whether or not a recipe being executed can be substituted by a different recipe. If the recipe can be substituted, it is determined whether or not the substitute recipe is contained in an unfinished job. If these conditions are satisfied, a substrate processing schedule is changed to execute the substitute recipe in this processing unit. If these conditions are not satisfied, substrate process in this processing unit is stopped.