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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1997
Geetaram S Dangat, Naperville, IL (US);
Anand R Gokhale, Danbury, CT (US);
Shuchen Li, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Robert J Milne, Jericho, VT (US);
Robert A Orzell, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Robert L Reid, Austin, TX (US);
Xueqing Tang, Naperville, IL (US);
Chih-Kuan Yen, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer implemented decision support tool serves as a solver to generate a best can do (BCD) match between existing assets and demands across multiple manufacturing facilities within boundaries established by manufacturing specifications and process flows and business policies to determine which demands can be met in what time frame by microelectronics (wafer to card) or related (for example disk drives) manufacturing and establishes a set of actions or guidelines for manufacturing to incorporate into their manufacturing execution system to insure the delivery commitments are met in a timely fashion. The BCD tool has six major components, a material resource planning explode or 'backwards' component, an optional STARTS evaluator component, an optional due date for receipts evaluator, an optional capacity available versus needed component, an implode 'forward' or feasible plan component, and a post processing algorithm.