Multi-Device Event Status Modeling for Semiconductor Anomaly Detection

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative Solutions
Generate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies face challenges in representing the status of multiple devices in semiconductor manufacturing apparatuses, making it difficult to select teacher data for machine learning applications using time-series data such as sounds, images, and vibrations.

Innovation Solution

An information processing device that acquires total event status information by synthesizing event status information from multiple devices and uses this information along with time-series detection results to perform machine learning processing, enabling the generation and determination of learning models for improved data representation and analysis.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional monitoring systems are used to track device status in semiconductor manufacturing, then vibration waveforms can be detected, but the status of multiple devices becomes difficult to represent and analyze

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice status representationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the complex monitoring task by creating separate detection units for different device types (first detection unit for first device, second detection unit for second device). Each detection unit independently monitors its specific device, simplifying the overall system architecture while maintaining comprehensive coverage of multiple devices

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary processing mechanism that receives detection results from multiple detection units and integrates them into a unified status representation. This intermediary layer transforms complex multi-device data into manageable information that can be effectively analyzed and displayed

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If machine learning is applied to time-series data from manufacturing processes, then anomaly detection capability is improved, but selection of teacher data becomes difficult without easy device status representation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanomaly detection accuracyVSAvoidteacher data selection
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary organization of device status information before machine learning processing. By pre-structuring the status data from multiple devices into a standardized format, the system prepares the groundwork for efficient teacher data selection and machine learning model training, eliminating the need for complex data preprocessing later

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms raw detection data into standardized status parameters that are suitable for machine learning input. By changing the parameter representation format to a unified structure, the system makes teacher data selection straightforward while maintaining the information needed for accurate anomaly detection

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20240069519A1Information processing device and information processing method
Publication Date: 2024.02.29 ULVAC INC
  • US20240069519A1 patent drawing
  • US20240069519A1 patent drawing
  • US20240069519A1 patent drawing

AI summary

An information processing device of the present invention includes a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, and a machine learning processing unit. The first acquisition unit acquires total event status information. The second acquisition unit acquires time-series detection result information. The machine learning processing unit performs one or both of learning processing and determination processing. In the learning processing, a learning model is generated by performing machine learning with the time-series detection result information acquired by the second acquisition unit as an input for each piece of the total event status information acquired by the first acquisition unit. In the determination processing, a determination is performed on the generated learning model by inputting the time-series detection result information acquired by the second acquisition unit for each piece of the total event status information acquired by the first acquisition unit.