Methods for controlling a converter for converting glass tubes to glass articles include preparing condition sets including settings for a plurality of process parameters, operating the converter to produce glass articles, measuring attributes of the glass articles, operating the converter at each of the condition sets, associating each glass article with a condition set used to produce the glass article and the attributes measured, developing operational models from the attributes measured and the condition sets, determining run settings for each of the plurality of process parameters based on the operational models, and operating the converter with each of the process parameters set to the run settings determined from the operational models.

A facility control system comprises a selection processing portion that selects, based on a manual operation and when an abnormal condition occurs in a first-layer computer that executes a first-layer program which issues an apparatus operating command to an apparatus controller, whether to cause a second-layer computer to execute the first-layer program that had been executed by the first-layer computer, and a substitute command output processing portion which outputs a substitute command in accordance with selection information selected by the selection processing portion. The second-layer computer executes the first-layer program that had been executed by the first-layer computer in which the abnormal condition occurred based on a substitute command outputted by the substitute command output processing portion.

A production system includes a first manufacturing machine and a second manufacturing machine. The production system also includes a production control unit configured to control productivities of the first and second manufacturing machines. In response to detecting a breakdown sign in the first manufacturing machine, a stop time of the first manufacturing machine is predicted. After the detection of the breakdown sign and before the first manufacturing machine stops, the productivity control unit updates the productivities of the first and/or second manufacturing machines, causing the first manufacturing machine and/or the second manufacturing machine to have an updated productivity equal to or greater than its original productivity, such that a total productivity of the first manufacturing machine and the second manufacturing machine increases.

A control method and a control device of fabrication equipment are provided. The method includes: when defects existing on the display panels are detected, determining a category of the defects belonging to, and obtaining a number of each of the detects to obtain a plurality of detection data; obtaining a total of each of the defects existing on the display panels manufactured by each of the fabrication equipment according to the plurality of detection data; judging whether an exception occurring on the fabrication equipment according to the total of each defect to perform exception handling on the fabrication equipment.

Detection of a breakdown sign in a first manufacturing machine forming a production system, prediction of a stop time when operation of the first manufacturing machine stops due to the breakdown, and specification of a maintenance time to return the first manufacturing machine to a normal state when the first manufacturing machine stops operating due to the breakdown. Achievement of a first total productivity planned by the planning unit when the sign of the breakdown is detected during the operation of the first and second manufacturing machines and the stop time of the first manufacturing machine is earlier than the maintenance time, at least the amount of operation of the first manufacturing machine is controlled to be equal to or greater than an amount of operation before the sign of the breakdown is detected, and a second total productivity higher than the first total productivity is set as a total productivity to the stop time.

Methods for controlling a converter for converting glass tubes to glass articles include preparing condition sets including settings for a plurality of process parameters, operating the converter to produce glass articles, measuring attributes of the glass articles, operating the converter at each of the condition sets, associating each glass article with a condition set used to produce the glass article and the attributes measured, developing operational models from the attributes measured and the condition sets, determining run settings for each of the plurality of process parameters based on the operational models, and operating the converter with each of the process parameters set to the run settings determined from the operational models.

A fail-over system and method relates to a fail-over technology of an equipment server managing a semiconductor fabrication equipment server. The fail-over system includes a semiconductor fabrication equipment group including a plurality of semiconductor fabrication equipment and configured to perform semiconductor fabrication processes; an equipment server group including a plurality of equipment servers and configured to control an operation of the semiconductor fabrication equipment group; and a management server configured to detect an error or a faulty operation in at least one equipment server in the equipment server group by communicating with the equipment server group, and execute a fail-over policy for a faulty equipment server in which the faulty operation is detected, wherein executing the fail-over policy includes allocating at least one application running in the faulty equipment server to at least one normal equipment server in which no faulty operation is detected in the equipment server group.