Cypress
Semiconductor
Texas
2001-2008
A continuous display of little wafers on the screen, color coded by not yet processed, being processed, and done with processing made error recovery a snap.
While the previous cell controller software was of great help in letting us monitor the rs232 communications line to see the sequence of commands used - in the end, the old software was scrapped. It selected recipes and monitored data, but did not easily tell us what we needed to know.
Novellus TEOS and Oxide
When there's a power glitch or a machine malfunction on a single wafer processing tool, what do you do when the list of wafers that were and were not processed is not clear?