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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2007
Peng Qu, Austin, TX (US);
Chandrashekar Krishnaswamy, Austin, TX (US);
Peng Qu, Austin, TX (US);
Chandrashekar Krishnaswamy, Austin, TX (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for scheduling preventative maintenance tasks includes defining a set of global time periods. Members of a set of preventative maintenance tasks associated with a plurality of machines for are scheduled execution during the global time periods based on capacities of the machines and production targets for the machines. A plurality of time slots is defined for a selected global period having a selected preventative maintenance task scheduled for execution therein. A selected time slot from the plurality of time slots is scheduled for performing the selected preventative maintenance task based on work in process levels for with the associated machine over the time slots.