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US 5,838,595 AGranted
Apparatus and method for model based process control
AssigneeTexas Instruments Incorporated
InventorsMichael Francis Sullivan, Judith Susan Hirsch, Stephanie Watts Butler, Nicholas John Tovell, Jerry Alan Stefani, Purnendu K. Mozumder, Ulrich H. Wild, Chun-Jen Jason Wang, Robert A. Hartzell
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Abstract
The present invention configures a control strategy and a process model to calculate a setting of a machine. The present invention adjusts the process model in accordance with an analysis of the setting to control the machine.
Claims20
An apparatus for controlling a factory, comprising:
- circuitry for configuring a plurality of control strategies for said factory;
- circuitry for selecting a process model from a plurality of process models and for selecting a control strategy from said plurality of control strategies;
- circuitry for performing a process for a machine of the factory from said process model and said control strategy;
- circuitry for analyzing said process to determine if said process is within predetermined limits;
- and
- circuitry for tuning said process model in accordance with said analysis.
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A method for controlling a factory comprising the steps of:
- configuring a plurality of control strategies;
- selecting a process model from a plurality of process models and selecting a control strategy from said control strategies;
- performing a process for a machine of the factory from said process model and said control strategy;
- analyzing said process to determine if said process is within predetermined limits;
- and
- tuning said process model in accordance with result of said analyzing steps.
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An apparatus for controlling a factory, comprising;
- circuitry for configuring a plurality of process models;
- circuitry for selecting a process model from said process models and for selecting a control strategy from a plurality of control strategies;
- circuitry for calculating settings for a machine of the factory from said process model and said control strategy;
- circuitry for performing a process in accordance with said settings;
- circuitry for analyzing said process to determine if said process is within predetermined limits;
- and
- circuitry for tuning said process model in accordance with said analysis.
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A method for controlling a factory comprising the steps of:
- configuring a plurality of process models;
- selecting a process model from said process models and selecting a control strategy form a plurality of control strategies;
- calculating settings for a machine of the factory from said process model and said control strategy;
- performing a process in accordance with the said settings;
- analyzing and process to determine if said process is within predetermined limits;
- and
- tuning said process model in accordance with result of said analyzing steps.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.