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US 8,510,254 B2Granted
Ontology model to accelerate engineering analysis in manufacturing
AssigneeTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
InventorsYa-Jung Tsai, Chih-Min Fan, Shi-Chung Chang, Hsiu-Chieh Cheng, Fang-Hsiang Su, Wu-Chi Chen, Ching-Pin Kao
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Abstract
An engineering analysis tool comprises a unified resource model-based (URM) objective and tool mapping capability for linking engineering analysis objectives to analysis tools. A Markov chain-based analysis plan generator (APTG) for reusing engineering analysis plans may be included in the engineering analysis tool. Further, the engineering analysis tool comprises a graphic symptom capturer (GSC) that auto-captures engineering perceived fault symptoms from engineering data analysis (EDA) tools.
Claims27
A computer program product, comprising:
- a tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium having encoded thereon instructions for use by at least one computer, wherein the instructions are for establishing a mapping function between engineering analysis objectives and engineering analysis tools, the computer program product comprising:
- computer usable program code defining a fault symptom language, the fault symptom language comprising a first symptom syntax selected from a plurality of symptom syntaxes and a first symptom vocabulary selected from a plurality of symptom vocabularies;
- computer usable program code implementing a user interface configured to collect the engineering analysis objectives in the fault symptom language;
- computer usable program code for assigning a respective identifier to each of the engineering analysis tools using the fault symptom language;
- computer usable program code for mapping the engineering analysis objectives to the engineering analysis tools;
- and computer useable program code for returning a link to the user interface, wherein the link points to the respective engineering analysis tools mapped to the respective engineering analysis objectives.
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An engineering analysis method comprising:
- interfacing with a manufacturing system network;
- establishing a mapping function between engineering analysis objectives and engineering analysis tools, wherein the mapping function comprises:
- structuring a fault symptom language by selecting a first symptom syntax from a plurality of symptom syntaxes and selecting a first symptom vocabulary from a plurality of symptom vocabularies;
- collecting engineering analysis objectives in the fault symptom language through a user interface;
- assigning an identifier, comprised of the fault symptom language, to each engineering analysis tool;
- mapping the engineering analysis objectives to respective engineering analysis tools;
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- displaying, on the user interface, a link pointing to at least one engineering analysis tool that is mapped to a respective engineering analysis objective.
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An engineering analysis method comprising:
- interfacing with a manufacturing system network;
- auto-capturing engineering selected fault symptoms from a graphic symptom capturer (GSC), the auto-capturing further comprising:
- identifying data in a data characteristic identification layer;
- employing characteristic symptom words passed from the data characteristic identification layer using a symptom vocabulary selection layer;
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- employing a symptom syntax, through a symptom composition layer, to order the characteristic words into a text sentence;
- accessing the manufacturing system network and the GSC through a graphical user interface (GUI);
- establishing a mapping function between engineering analysis objectives and engineering analysis tools, wherein the mapping function comprises:
- structuring a fault symptom language by selecting a first symptom syntax from a plurality of symptom syntaxes and selecting a first symptom vocabulary from a plurality of symptom vocabularies;
- collecting an engineering analysis objective in the fault symptom language through a user interface;
- assigning an identifier, comprised of the fault symptom language structure, to each engineering analysis tool;
- mapping the engineering analysis objective to an engineering analysis tool;
- and
- displaying, on the GUI, a link that points to the engineering analysis tool mapped to the engineering analysis objective.
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