US 2003/0171972 A1Published application

Scheduling system and method

OwnerJames Heskininventor

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Wafer fab scheduling/planning rule structure including reports for and heuristic bottleneck forecasting for real-time rescheduling.

Dependent claims

A method of scheduling, comprising the steps of:

(a) providing first and second reports with a time interval for updating said first report greater than a time interval for updating said second report;
and
(b) rescheduling work in a factory according to current versions of said first and second reports.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

H10P 72/0612
Apparatus for monitoring, sorting, marking, testing or measuring: production flow monitoring, e.g. for increasing throughput
G05B 19/41865
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…
G06Q 10/0631
Operations research, analysis or management: resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
G06Q 10/0635
Operations research, analysis or management: risk analysis of enterprise or organisation activities

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