Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Specific application – apparatus or process – Product assembly or manufacturing
Reexamination Certificate
2006-09-05
2006-09-05
Picard, Leo (Department: 2125)
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Specific application, apparatus or process
Product assembly or manufacturing
C700S103000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07103436
ABSTRACT:
The invention provides a method and system for determining a production plan that includes a first step that determines the minimum number of manufacturing starts that are required to meet contractual obligations; and a second step which determines a production plan satisfying the minimum manufacturing starts together with other customer demands. More specifically, the invention presents a method of allocating production starts (e.g., wafer starts) in a manufacturing facility (e.g., wafer foundry) using a linear programming production planning system which performs a first stage of linear programming to satisfy only contractually mandated minimum production starts constraints followed by a second stage of linear programming to satisfy the additional constraints, once the minimum starts constraints are satisfied.
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Denton Brian T.
Milne Robert J.
Orzell Robert A.
Vajjala Satyadeep
Ward Jacqueline N.
Garland Steven R.
Gibb I.P. Law Firm LLC
Kotulak, Esq. Richard M.
Picard Leo
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