Configuration based engineering data collection (EDC) for manufacturing lines

An equipment integrator to provide an interface between a plurality of manufacturing tools and a manufacturing execution system, the equipment integrator further comprising:

• a computer platform including a microprocessor and a memory, the computer platform networked to a manufacturing tool and the manufacturing execution system, the computer platform to:
• provide a graphical user interface to receive user input of configuration information for the equipment integrator operable with a plurality of manufacturing tools, the configuration information to adapt the equipment integrator to a unique tool-specific data stream publishable by each manufacturing tool of the plurality;
• attach a first variable identifier to a collection event identifier of the manufacturing tool in response to receiving a user input identifying both the first variable identifier and the collection event identifier;
• attach a second variable identifier to the collection event identifier in response to receiving a user input identifying both the second variable identifier and the collection event identifier;
• receive a request from a manufacturing execution system for data from a manufacturing tool of the plurality;
• send an instruction to the manufacturing tool to publish data of the first and second variable identifier upon occurrence of the event identified by the collection event identifier
• collect data from the tool-specific data stream;
• map the data collected for the first variable identifier-to a tool-independent manufacturing execution system database parameter, the mapping based on the equipment integrator configuration information;
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• populate a data structure with the mapped data to be returned to the manufacturing execution system.

A computer implemented method for an equipment integrator, comprising:

• providing a user interface to receive user input of configuration information for an equipment integrator operable with a plurality of manufacturing tools, the configuration information to adapt the equipment integrator configuration to a unique tool-specific data stream publishable by each manufacturing tool of the plurality;
• attaching the first variable identifier to a collection event identifier of the manufacturing tool in response to receiving a user input identifying both the first variable identifier and the collection event identifier;
• attaching the second variable identifier to the collection event identifier of the manufacturing tool in response to receiving a user input identifying both the second variable identifier and the collection event identifier;
• receiving a request from a manufacturing execution system for data from a manufacturing tool of the plurality;
• sending an instruction to the manufacturing tool to publish data of the first and second variable identifier upon occurrence of the event identified by the collection event identifier;
• collecting data from the tool-specific data stream;
• mapping the data collected for a first variable identifier of the manufacturing tool to a tool-independent manufacturing execution system database parameter, the mapping based on the equipment integrator configuration information;
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• populating a data structure with the received data to be returned to the manufacturing execution system.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon which cause a data processing system to perform a method for an equipment integrator comprising:

• providing a user interface to facilitate user input of configuration information for the equipment integrator operable with a plurality of manufacturing tools, the equipment integrator configuration information adaptable to each manufacturing tool of the plurality;
• receiving a request from a manufacturing execution system for data from a manufacturing tool of the plurality;
• sending an instruction to the manufacturing tool to publish the data, the instruction based on the equipment integrator configuration information;
• mapping the data received from the manufacturing tool needed to satisfy the request based on the equipment integrator configuration information, wherein mapping the data received from the manufacturing tool further comprises mapping a first variable identifier to a manufacturing execution system database parameter in response to receiving a user input identifying the first variable identifier and the manufacturing execution system database parameter, wherein mapping the first variable identifier to the manufacturing execution system database parameter further comprises:
• displaying to the user a choice list comprising at least an entry representing the manufacturing execution system database parameter;
• displaying to the user a choice list comprising at least an entry representing the first variable identifier of the manufacturing tool data;
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• mapping the first variable identifier with the manufacturing execution system database parameter in response to receiving a user selection of the entry representing first variable identifier and a user selection of the entry representing the manufacturing execution system database parameter;
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• populating a data structure to be returned to the manufacturing execution system based on the data mapping.