A Petri-Net-Based Scheduling Strategy for Dual-Arm Cluster Tools With Wafer Revisiting - Informatique, Biologie Intégrative et Systèmes Complexes
Article Dans Une Revue IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics Année : 2013

A Petri-Net-Based Scheduling Strategy for Dual-Arm Cluster Tools With Wafer Revisiting

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There are wafer fabrication processes in cluster tools that require wafer revisiting. The adoption of a swap strategy for such tools forms a 3-wafer cyclic (3-WC) period with three wafers completed in each period. It has been shown that, by such a scheduling strategy, the minimal cycle time cannot be reached for some cases. This raises a question of whether there is a scheduling method such that the performance can be improved. To answer this question, a dual-arm cluster tool with wafer revisiting is modeled by a Petri net. Based on the model, the dynamical behavior of the process is analyzed. Then, a 2-wafer cyclic (2-WC) scheduling strategy is revealed for the first time. Cycle time analysis is conducted for the proposed strategy to evaluate its performance. It shows that, for some cases, the performance obtained by a 2-WC schedule is better than that obtained by any existing 3-WC ones. Thus, they can be used to complement each other in scheduling dual-arm cluster tools with wafer revisiting. Illustrative examples are given.
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hal-00867371 , version 1 (18-07-2018)

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Naiqi Wu, Mengchu Zhou, Feng Chu, Chengbin Chu. A Petri-Net-Based Scheduling Strategy for Dual-Arm Cluster Tools With Wafer Revisiting. IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics, 2013, 43 (5), pp.1182-1194. ⟨10.1109/TSMCA.2012.2230440⟩. ⟨hal-00867371⟩
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