SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR SETTING EQUIPMENT PARAMETERS

• US 20120323350A1
• Filed: 06/16/2010
• Published: 12/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SystemV Inc.
• Original Assignee: SystemV Inc.
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Minoru, Imori, Tatsushi, Hirano, Shinobu
• Application Number:
  US13/055,334
• Publication Number:
  US 20120323350A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/97
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 11/42 for obtaining a characteristic which is both proportional and time-dependent, e.g. P. I., P. I. D.
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 13/042 in which a parameter or coefficient is automatically adjusted to optimise the performance
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 17/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32097 Recipe programming for flexible batch

Abstract

An object is to provide an equipment parameter setting support system for supporting the setting of parameters in various processing equipment. The equipment parameter setting support system has an execution results acquisition unit for acquiring, from an equipment controller or EES of the equipment design and manufacturing support system, execution results of a real equipment at any two points in time; a parameter calculation unit for calculating PID parameters at each time point on the basis of the acquired execution results; a difference calculation unit for calculating the difference between the calculated PID parameters; and a variation value calculation unit for calculating a variation value for a unit interval in relation to the calculated difference, wherein, in the equipment design and manufacturing support system, the calculated variation value and a PID parameters stored in the equipment simulator are computed to calculate a new PID parameter, and PID control is executed in the equipment simulator using the new PID parameter.

Claims

1. An equipment parameter setting support system used in an equipment design and manufacturing support system for supporting the design and manufacture of processing equipment, said equipment parameter setting support system characterized in comprising:

an execution results acquisition unit for acquiring, from an equipment controller or EES of said equipment design and manufacturing support system, execution results of a real equipment at any two points in time;

a parameter calculation unit for calculating PID parameters at each point in time on the basis of said acquired execution results;

a difference calculation unit for calculating the difference between the calculated PID parameters; and

a variation value calculation unit for calculating a variation value for a unit interval in relation to the calculated difference, wherein

in said equipment design and manufacturing support system, said calculated variation value and PID parameters stored in said equipment simulator are computed to calculate a new PID parameter, and PID control is executed in the equipment simulator using the new PID parameter.

3. The equipment parameter setting support system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein

said data transmission unit presents the variation value of said calculated PID parameters to said equipment simulator at each arrival of said unit interval;

and

said equipment design and manufacturing support system causes said variation value to be computed with the PID parameters stored in said equipment simulator to calculate a

new PID parameter, and causes PID control to be executed in the equipment simulator using the new PID parameter.

4. The equipment parameter setting support system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein

said data transmission unit presents the variation value of said calculated PID parameters to said equipment simulator;

and

said equipment design and manufacturing support system causes said variation value to be computed with the PID parameters stored in said equipment simulator at each arrival of said unit interval to calculate a new PID parameter, and causes PID control to be executed in the equipment simulator using the new PID parameter.

5. The equipment parameter setting support system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein

said parameter setting system receives input of the PID parameters for simulating an error in said equipment simulator, and presents to said equipment simulator the PID parameters thus received as said input;

and

said equipment simulator simulates equipment trouble by executing simulation processing on the basis of said PID parameter.

2. An equipment parameter setting support system used in an equipment design and manufacturing support system for supporting the design and manufacture of processing equipment, said equipment parameter setting support system characterized in comprising:

an execution results acquisition unit for acquiring, from an equipment controller or EES of said equipment design and manufacturing support system, execution results of a real equipment at any two points in time;

a parameter calculation unit for calculating PID parameters at each time point on the basis of said acquired execution results;

a waveform calculation unit for calculating a PID waveform on the basis of the calculated PID parameters;

a waveform comparison unit for comparing said calculated PID waveforms; and

a variation value calculation unit for calculating a variation value for a unit interval in relation to the variation value at said two points in time in the case that the results of said comparisons satisfy a predetermined condition, wherein

in said equipment design and manufacturing support system, said calculated variation value and PID parameters stored in said equipment simulator are computed to calculate a new PID parameter, and PID control is executed in the equipment simulator using the new PID parameter.

6. An equipment design and manufacturing support system for supporting design and manufacture of processing equipment,

said equipment design and manufacturing support system characterized in having an equipment simulator, an equipment controller, an EES, and a parameter setting system, wherein

said equipment simulator receives input of equipment layout data of real equipment, and executes simulation processing using PID control as virtual processing equipment via a simulation program that corresponds to individual levels of said real equipment on the basis of said equipment layout data and a control command from said equipment controller;

said equipment controller presents to said real equipment and said equipment simulator a control command for controlling said real equipment and virtual processing equipment in said equipment simulator;

said EES acquires the execution results of simulation processing in the virtual processing equipment in said equipment simulator, and the execution results in said real equipment;

said parameter setting system acquires the execution results in said real equipment at two points in time, calculates the PID parameters to be used in said equipment simulator at each of the time points on the basis of the acquired execution results, and calculates a variation value per unit interval of said PID parameters using the calculated PID parameter; and

said equipment simulator updates said PID parameters on the basis of the variation value calculated in said parameter setting system.

8. The equipment design and manufacturing support system according to claim 6 or 7, wherein said equipment design and manufacturing support system further comprises reproduction equipment, wherein

said reproduction equipment executes simulation processing as virtual processing equipment via a simulation program that corresponds to individual levels of said real equipment on the basis of the control command in said real equipment and/or the execution results.

9. The equipment design and manufacturing support system, according to claim 8, wherein

position information of material to be processed by control command is included in said execution results;

and

said reproduction equipment displays simulation processing from the viewpoint of the material on the basis of the position information of the material in said execution results.

7. An equipment design and manufacturing support system for supporting design and manufacture of processing equipment,

said equipment design and manufacturing support system characterized in comprising an equipment simulator, an equipment controller, an EES, and a parameter setting system, wherein

said equipment simulator receives input of equipment layout data of real equipment, and executes simulation processing using PID control as virtual processing equipment via a simulation program that corresponds to individual levels of said real equipment on the basis of said equipment layout data and a control command from said equipment controller;

said equipment controller presents to said real equipment and said equipment simulator a control command for controlling said real equipment and virtual processing equipment in said equipment simulator;

said EES acquires the execution results of simulation processing in the virtual processing equipment in said equipment simulator, and the execution results in said real equipment;

said parameter setting system acquires the execution results in said real equipment at two points in time, calculates the PID parameters to be used in said equipment simulator at each of the time points on the basis of the acquired execution results, calculates a PID waveform at each of the time points using the calculated PID parameter, and calculates a variation value for each unit interval by comparing the calculated PID waveforms; and

said equipment simulator updates said PID parameters on the basis of the variation value calculated in said parameter setting system.

10. A method for setting recipe data for an equipment parameter setting support system using an equipment design and manufacturing support system for supporting the design and manufacture of processing equipment, said method for setting recipe data using an equipment parameter setting support system wherein:

a recipe management system presents recipe data set in advance as initial values to an equipment controller of said equipment design and manufacturing support system;

said equipment controller presents a recipe control command to an equipment simulator of said equipment design and manufacturing support system on the basis of the data of said recipe;

said equipment simulator executes simulation processing on the basis of the data of said recipe and sends the execution result to said equipment controller or EES; and

said recipe management system displays the execution results stored in said equipment controller or EES and receives a re-input of said recipe data, and the received recipe data is transferred from the recipe management system to said equipment controller of said equipment design and manufacturing support system, whereby a recipe control command based on new recipe data is transferred to said equipment simulator.