# US 7,610,177 B2 · Manufacturing execution system, equipment interface and method of operating a manufacturing execution system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 7,610,177 B2 - Document ID: US7610177B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 11/588,833 - Filed: 2006-10-27 - Published: 2008-05-01 - Granted: 2009-10-27 - Earliest claimed: 2006-10-27 - Assignees: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Inventors: Jayaraman Subramanian; Akhauri Prakash Kumar - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7610177B2 ## CPC - G06Q 10/06: Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ## Abstract A manufacturing execution system for manufacturing a product is provided. The manufacturing execution system includes a manufacturing execution plan having a set of manufacturing steps to be executed for manufacturing the product, a planning component for determining a data collection plan of data to be collected during the execution of one of the manufacturing steps, a service interface for providing the data collection plan in response to a service request, and a database for storing data that has been collected in accordance with the determined data collection plan. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A manufacturing execution system comprising: a manufacturing execution plan indicative of manufacturing steps to be executed for manufacturing a product, a planning component for determining a context-specific data collection plan for data to be collected during execution of at least one of the manufacturing steps, a service interface for providing the data collection plan in response to a service request, a database for storing data that has been collected in accordance with a context-specific data collection plan; and an analytical component for analytically processing the data stored in the database, the planning component being operable to determine a modified context-specific data collection plan depending on a result of the analytical processing, wherein the modified context-specific data collection plan is provided in response to a subsequent service request relating to the same context as a previous service request that resulted in the modification of the context-specific data collection plan. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The manufacturing execution system of claim 1, the context-specific data collection plan being specified by a set of objects. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The manufacturing execution system of claim 1, the context-specific data collection plan being a predefined default data collection plan. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The manufacturing execution system of claim 1, the modified context-specific data collection plan being provided by replacing or modifying at least one of the objects of the set of objects. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The manufacturing execution system of claim 1, further comprising a storage component for storing a predefined criterion and an action related to the criterion, wherein the action is triggered if the predefined criterion is not met by the data. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The manufacturing execution system of claim 5, the action being a maintenance action for a manufacturing tool used for the manufacturing of the product. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The manufacturing execution system of claim 6, the service interface being adapted to send a maintenance request indicative of the action to a maintenance workflow manager. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The manufacturing execution system of claim 1, the service interface being adapted to be coupled to a communication network. ### Claim 9 A method of operating a manufacturing execution system, the manufacturing execution system comprising a manufacturing execution plan indicative of manufacturing steps to be executed by manufacturing tools for manufacturing a product, the method comprising: receiving a request for a context-specific data collection plan from at least one of the manufacturing too1s; determining the context-specific data collection plan for data to be collected during execution of one of the manufacturing steps depending on the context of the one of the manufacturing steps; sending the context-specific data collection plan to the at least one of the manufacturing tools in response to the request; acquiring data in accordance with the data collection plan; processing the acquired data to provide a result; and determining a modified data collection plan depending on the result, wherein the modified data collection plan is sent to a requester in response to a subsequent service request relating to the same context. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The method of claim 9, wherein the context-specific data collection plan is sent to the at least one of the manufacturing tools via an interface. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The method of claim 9, the context-specific data collection plan being a default data collection plan. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) The method of claim 9, further comprising triggering an action that is assigned to a predefined criterion if the acquired data does not meet the predefined criterion. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The method of claim 12, the action being a maintenance action for maintenance of the one of the manufacturing tools. ### Claim 14 (depends on 9) The method of claim 9, wherein the data collection plan is provided as an extended markup language (XML) document. ### Claim 15 (depends on 9) The method of claim 9, wherein the product is selected from a group comprising semiconductor products, automotive products, pharmaceutical products, solar cells, electronic devices, hard discs, consumer electronics products, and integrated electronic circuits. ### Claim 16 (depends on 9) A computer program product comprising computer executable instructions for performing a method in accordance with claim 9.