METHOD FOR RESERVING EQUIPMENT AND COMPUTER ACCESSIBLE STORAGE MEDIA TO STORE PROGRAM THEREOF

• US 20080228510A1
• Filed: 07/18/2007
• Published: 09/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (Powerchip Technology Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (Powerchip Technology Corporation)
• Inventors: Chang, Shih-Chang, Chen, Wei, Wu, De-Lung
• Application Number:
  US11/779,292
• Publication Number:
  US 20080228510A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A method for reserving equipment is provided. In the present invention, an arrival time in each site of a special lot is forecasted according to a history record, and the equipment is reserved according to the arrival time and a status of each of the equipments at the site. As a result, suitable equipments in the production line are reserved for the special lot, thus the time of waiting for idle equipment can be eliminated, and the cycle time of processing special lot can be reduced.

Claims

1. A method for reserving equipment, comprising:

calculating a process time of a special lot at each of a plurality of sites and a delivery time of the special lot between neighbouring sites according to a history record;

forecasting an arrival time of the special lot at each of the plurality of sites according to the process time and the delivery time;

calculating an occupation rate of each of a plurality of equipments at each of sites according to the arrival time and a equipment status of each equipments; and

reserving one of the equipments according to the occupation rate.

2. The method for reserving equipment according to claim 1, wherein the history record comprises a process period and a cycle time of processing each lot by each equipment, and calculating the process time of the special lot at the each site comprises calculating the process time according to the process period and the cycle time of the each equipment.

3. The method for reserving equipment according to claim 1, wherein the step of calculating the delivery time of the special lot between neighbouring sites comprises calculating the delivery time according to a delivery mechanism and a delivery speed.

4. The method for reserving equipment according to claim 1, wherein the step of forecasting the arrival time of the special lot at each of the plurality of sites comprises calculating a sum of the process time of all upstream sites with respect to the each site, and the delivery time between any neighbouring sites of the all upstream sites with respect to the each site, a result of which is used as the arrival time.

5. The method for reserving equipment according to claim 1, further comprising a step of determining whether or not the arrival time is less than a maximum reserve time after forecasting the arrival time of the special lot at each of the plurality of sites.

6. The method for reserving equipment according to claim 1, wherein the history record comprises a process period and a cycle time of processing each lot by each equipment, and the step of calculating the occupation rate of each equipment comprises:

determining the equipment status of the each equipment to be a process state; and

calculating the occupation rate according to the arrival time, a remainder process time, and an average cycle time of the each equipment.

7. The method for reserving equipment according to claim 6, wherein the occupation rate is calculated using following equation:

occupation rate=(Arrival_—

T−

Remainder_—

T)/Avg_—

TC

wherein Arrival_T represents the arrival time, Remainder_T represents the remainder process time, and Avg_TC represents the average cycle time of the equipment.

8. The method for reserving equipment according to claim 6, further comprising calculating the remainder process time according to the process period of the each equipment and a current time.

9. The method for reserving equipment according to claim 1, wherein the history record comprises a process period and a cycle time of processing each lot by each equipment, and the step of calculating the occupation rate of each equipment comprises:

determining the equipment status of the each equipment to be an idle state; and

calculating the occupation rate according to the arrival time, the maximum process period of the each equipment, and an average cycle time of the each equipment.

10. The method for reserving equipment according to claim 9, wherein the occupation rate is calculated using following equation:

occupation rate=(Arrival_—

T−

Max_—

TM)/Avg_—

TC

wherein Arrival_T represents the arrival time, Max_TM represents the maximum process period, and Avg_TC represents the average cycle time.

11. The method for reserving equipment according to claim 1, wherein reserving one of the equipments according to the occupation rate comprises reserving the equipment whose occupation rate is the lowest and less than 1.

12. The method for reserving equipment according to claim 1, wherein the step of reserving one of the equipments according to the occupation rate comprises reserving one of the equipments according to a characteristic of each of the equipments.

13. The method for reserving equipment according to claim 1, after reserving one of the equipments, further comprising:

processing the special lot by the reserved equipment when the special lot arrives at the site; and

recording a process period and a cycle time of processing the special lot by the reserved equipment in the history record.