Anand R Gokhale

US Patent:

59715855, Oct 26, 1999

Filed:

Sep 9, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/926131

Inventors:

Geetaram S. Dangat - Naperville IL
Anand R. Gokhale - Danbury CT
Shuchen Li - Poughkeepsie NY
Robert J. Milne - Jericho VT
Robert A. Orzell - Essex Junction VT
Robert L. Reid - Austin TX
Xueqing Tang - Naperville IL
Chih-Kuan Yen - Ann Arbor MI

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1900
G06G 766

US Classification:

36446808

Abstract:

A computer implemented decision support tool serves as a solver to generate a best can do (BCD) match between existing assets and demands across multiple manufacturing facilities within boundaries established by manufacturing specifications and process flows and business policies to determine which demands can be met in what time frame by microelectronics (wafer to card) or related (for example disk drives) manufacturing and establishes a set of actions or guidelines for manufacturing to incorporate into their manufacturing execution system to insure the delivery commitments are met in a timely fashion. The BCD tool has six major components, a material resource planning explode or "backwards" component, an optional STARTS evaluator component, an optional due date for receipts evaluator, an optional capacity available versus needed component, an implode "forward" or feasible plan component, and a post processing algorithm.