E10500 - SEMI E105 - Provisional Specification for CIM Framework Scheduling Component

This specification was technically approved by the global Information & Control Committee and is the direct responsibility of the North American Information & Control Committee. Current edition approved by the Japanese Regional Standards Committee on February 1, 2001. Initially available at www.semi.org April 2001; to be published July 2001. Originally published October 2000.   The Scheduling Component supports Factory Operations, Material Transport and Storage, Production Machine, and Equipment Tracking and Maintenance components by ordering, in time, jobs that process material on equipment, move material, and maintain equipment. The scheduler uses knowledge of product demand, equipment and material state, process flows, throughput bottlenecks, operational policy and constraints, and other information to recommend jobs that maximize effective utilization of factory resources to satisfy product demand and planned objectives. Increased control over operations requires an active