Equipment management system

• US 20080010109A1
• Filed: 07/02/2007
• Published: 01/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Electronics Corporation (Renesas Electronics Corporation)
• Inventors: Ide, Shigeaki
• Application Number:
  US11/822,063
• Publication Number:
  US 20080010109A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

Abstract

The system includes: an operation management server 20 and a lot history server 30, which collect operation status data showing operation statuses of a plurality of equipments 10; an OEE measuring PC 40 accumulating an actual processing time and a loss time from the operation status data of the plurality of equipments 10 on a predetermined period basis, and calculating overall equipment efficiencies for each predetermined period from the obtained accumulated-results; an equipment load factor calculating PC 50 accepting information on an improvement plan for the equipment, predicting a future overall equipment efficiency for each equipment according to the overall equipment efficiency and the information on the improvement plan, calculating the future group load factor based on the predicted future overall equipment efficiency; and a WEB server 60 storing equipment management information including the future overall equipment efficiency and the future equipment load factor for a plurality of equipments.

Claims

1. An equipment management system, comprising:

a collection unit collecting operation status data indicating operation statuses of a plurality of equipments;

an accumulating unit accumulating an actual processing time and a loss time from said operation status data on a predetermined period basis;

an overall equipment efficiency calculating unit calculating an overall equipment efficiency from the accumulated result obtained by said accumulating unit on said predetermined period basis;

an accepting unit accepting information on an improvement plan for said equipment;

a prediction unit predicting a future overall equipment efficiency according to said overall equipment efficiency and said information, on the improvement plan;

an equipment load factor calculating unit calculating a future equipment load factor, based on said future overall equipment efficiency predicted by said prediction unit; and

a storage unit storing equipment management information, which includes said future overall equipment efficiency and said future equipment load factor, for said plurality of equipments.

2. The equipment management system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a correction unit correcting said overall equipment efficiency calculated by said overall equipment efficiency calculating unit, based on the tendency over time.

3. The equipment management system as claimed in claim 1,

wherein said storage unit is a server, and

said equipment management system further includes a connection unit connecting said storage unit and a terminal connected to said server through a network in such a way that said storage unit is referred to from said terminal.

4. The equipment management system as claimed in claim 1, further including a graph creating unit creating a trend graph for said overall equipment efficiency,

wherein said trend graph is stored in said storage unit.

5. The equipment management system as claimed in claim 1, further including an equipment number calculating unit calculating a number of equipments to be required in the future, based on said equipment load factor.

6. The equipment management system as claimed in claim 1, further including a list creating unit creating a list of predicted results, said list including said future overall equipment efficiency and said future equipment load factor,

wherein said list of predicted results is stored in said storage unit.

7. The equipment management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said equipment is a semiconductor manufacturing device.