摘要:
A method for positioning and testing an object to be tested wherein the surface of an object to be tested for electrical characteristics is brought into contact with a test probe. The side of the object opposite the surface to be tested is held by a suction device on the end of one of many arms which are attached to a rotating shaft. The object is then transported to a position to bring it into contact with the test probe where testing is performed to determine whether or not the object is faulty. If necessary, the arms are manipulated in an up and down and an in and out direction with respect to the shaft, and the suction device rotated, to maintain the object to be tested in a proper orientation.
摘要:
A relay station (10) has its interior determined as a substrate storing section (10a), and supporting sections (11) for supporting plural semiconductor wafers are formed on facing side walls of the substrate storing section. A substrate processing apparatus-side opening section (12) and a transfer apparatus-side opening section (13) are formed on both sides of the relay station (10), and these opening sections are provided with a substrate processing apparatus-side opening/closing mechanism (14) and a transfer apparatus-side opening/closing mechanism (15). A bottom plane (18) of the relay station (10) has a shape of a FOUP conforming to the SEMI standard and can be placed on a placing table for placing the FOUP.
摘要:
There is provided a system and method for monitoring an apparatus from a remote location. A vendor-side computer obtains operating state data obtained by a monitoring device provided in an apparatus via a communication line, and monitors the operating state of the apparatus from a remote location. Maintenance data at a part replacing time is transmitted from the apparatus, and the vendor-side computer that has received maintenance data calculates an optimal replacement period of a part based on this. The calculated optimal replacement period of each part is sent to a plant. The plant feeds the optimal replacement period back to the operation of the apparatus, so that productivity can be improved.
摘要:
A business practitioner who offers a maintenance service for a machine (15) quantifies the productivity of the machine (15) in a predetermined service period (S42). The business practitioner compares the quantified productivity with a predetermined productivity reference, and calculates the difference between them (S43). The business practitioner determines a charge amount for the maintenance service in the service period based on the calculated difference (S45). Due to this, charging is realized which can satisfy both of the user of the machine (15) and the maintenance business practitioner.
摘要:
A device inspection apparatus inspects a plurality of semiconductor devices on an individual device basis. An inspection target sorting part (8) omits an execution of an inspection to be applied to the semiconductor devices according to information which specifies a defective device that has been determined to be defective in a manufacturing process that has been applied to the device.
摘要:
A probing test method including contacting probe of a probe card with pad on an IC chip on a semiconductor wafer, relatively moving each of the probe along the top of each of the pad, and sending test signal to the pad through the probe. Oxide film on the top of each of the pads can be removed by relative motion between each probe and each pad at an area where they are contacted with each other, contact resistance between the probes and the pads can be reduced to a greater extent, and test signal can be more reliable transmitted between the probes and the pads.
摘要:
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for performing a probing test for sequentially testing chips formed on a semiconductor wafer in a matrix form. An area of a chip subjected to the test or a chip excluded from the test on the wafer is preset, the preset-area information is stored, and only chips subjected to to the test are tested on the basis of the sequentially readout preset-area information.