TY - GEN
T1 - A novel approach to scheduling of single-arm cluster tools with wafer revisiting
AU - Wu, Nai Qi
AU - Chu, Feng
AU - Chu, Chengbin
AU - Zhou, Meng Chu
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper conducts a study for scheduling single-arm cluster tools with typical wafer revisiting pattern (mi, mi+1)k where i means the ith-step and mi and mi+1 mean the corresponding quantity of the modules in i and i+1-th steps, and k the number of visiting times. With a Petri net (PN) model, it is shown that, mi=mi+1 =1, the optimal schedule for the revisiting process is deterministic and unique, and the minimal cycle time can be calculated by an analytical expression. It is also shown that, when mi = 1 and mi+1 = 2 or mi = 2 and mi+1 = 1, the optimal one-wafer cyclic schedule for the revisiting process can be obtained in k deterministic schedules by comparing their cycle times. Based on the scheduling and cycle time analysis of a revisiting process, a novel method is presented to schedule the overall system by treating the revisiting process as a macro step.
AB - This paper conducts a study for scheduling single-arm cluster tools with typical wafer revisiting pattern (mi, mi+1)k where i means the ith-step and mi and mi+1 mean the corresponding quantity of the modules in i and i+1-th steps, and k the number of visiting times. With a Petri net (PN) model, it is shown that, mi=mi+1 =1, the optimal schedule for the revisiting process is deterministic and unique, and the minimal cycle time can be calculated by an analytical expression. It is also shown that, when mi = 1 and mi+1 = 2 or mi = 2 and mi+1 = 1, the optimal one-wafer cyclic schedule for the revisiting process can be obtained in k deterministic schedules by comparing their cycle times. Based on the scheduling and cycle time analysis of a revisiting process, a novel method is presented to schedule the overall system by treating the revisiting process as a macro step.
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U2 - 10.1109/COASE.2009.5234146
DO - 10.1109/COASE.2009.5234146
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70449127608
SN - 9781424445783
T3 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2009
SP - 567
EP - 572
BT - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2009
T2 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2009
Y2 - 22 August 2009 through 25 August 2009
ER -