具有多品种晶圆混合加工的单臂组合设备调度

为了提高晶圆制造中组合设备的生产效率,在考虑晶圆驻留时间约束条件下,研究没有共享加工模块的多品种晶圆混合加工的单臂组合设备调度问题.首先,采用面向资源的Petri网模型描述多种晶圆产品的混合加工过程,引入控制变迁避免模型的死锁,采用赋时库所和赋时变迁模拟系统资源的活动时间.其次,通过虚拟加工的方法平衡工序的负载,基于系统Petri网模型和拉式调度策略,推导出单臂组合设备在多品种晶圆混合加工情形下的可调度性判定条件,并以解析形式描述.最后,提出了系统稳态调度求解算法并以实例验证了算法的有效性和可行性.     

Scheduling and optimization of mixed-processing with multi-variety wafers in dual-armed cluster tools

ABSTRACT

To improve the efficiency of wafer fabrication, this work addresses the scheduling and control problems of mixed-processing with multiple wafer types in cluster tools. Then, based on a developed Petri net (PN) model, it presents a general model for cluster tools with multiple wafer types and the conventional swap strategy. By analyzing the coordination mechanism between wafers processing and robot tasks, necessary and sufficient conditions are established to check the schedulability of the system that is operated by using the conventional swap strategy. If the system is not schedulable checked by such schedulability conditions, a constraint-guided heuristic algorithm and a conflicts-avoiding algorithm are developed to obtain a reasonable schedule. Finally, illustrative examples are presented to show the applications of the proposed method.