Modern semiconductor wafer fabrication systems are changing from 200 mm to 300 mm wafer processing, and with the dual promises of more chips per wafer and economy of scale, leading semiconductor manufacturers are attracted to developing and implementing 300 mm wafer fabs. However, in today's dynamic and competitive global market, a successful semiconductor manufacturer has to excel in multiple performance indices, such as manufacturing cycle time and on-time delivery, and simultaneously optimize these objectives to reach the bestcompromised system achievement. To cope with this challenge, in this paper, the infrastructure of a timed EOPNs-based multiple-objective real-time scheduling system (MRSS) is proposed to tackle complex 300 mm wafer fabs. Four specific performance objectives pursued by contemporary semiconductor manufacturers are integrated into a priority-ranking algorithm, which can serve as the initial scheduling guidance, and then all wafer lots will be dynamically dispatched by the real-time state-dependent dispatching system. This dispatching control system is timed EOPN-based and adopts a heterarchical organization that leads to a better real-time performance and adaptability. As the foundation of real-time schedule, the timed EOPNs modelling approach is expounded in detail, and the prototype of the MRSS simulation system is also provided.
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