Abstract: The invention is to provide a driving device for interacting with a touch screen panel assembly and a method for interacting the same with a touch screen panel assembly. The touch screen panel assembly has a touch screen panel and a processor. The driving device includes a body, a trigger element, a receiving element, a controlling element and a responding element. When the driving device body is placed on the touch screen panel with its bottom side facing the touch screen panel assembly, the trigger element of the driving device will be brought into contact with the touch screen panel, sending signals to the processor to drive the touch screen panel assembly to produce corresponding acousto-optic data. The receiving element of driving device in turn receives such acousto-optic data to produce corresponding reaction, for example, audio or optical data to interact with the touch screen panel assembly.

Abstract: A method for planning product groups is provided. The present method is characterized in that selecting processes from a process group according to the rule of the sum of production capacities of the processes in proportion to the total production capacity of the process group not less than a predetermined ratio and the demand production capacity per month of the processes not less than a predetermined value. Then, defining each of selected processes as a product group. Finally, incorporating the unselected processes of the process group into the product groups according to process resemblance.

Abstract: A method of planning a production schedule by using a planning system, useful for a semiconductor foundry, is provided. When the sales order whose product needs to be subject to the backend process is entered, the planning system subtracts an available amount of the product in the warehouse from the demand of the sales order, and obtaining a balanced amount of the product which is still required. Then the system searches for the supplied amount of the product that can be provided from the foundry and the CTP capacity available for the backend process. The supplied amount is compared with the CTP capacity, and the smaller one is taken as the balanced amount of the product. The available amount of the product in the warehouse is added to the balanced amount of the product, obtaining a total amount of the product as the supply for the sales order.

Abstract: An alternative resource model. The alternative resource is suitable for a first resource and a second resource. A first process and a second process are performed in the first resource and the second process and a third process are performed in the second resource. A pseudo resource is provided and a capacity of the pseudo resource is equal to a sum of a capacity of the first resource and a capacity of the second resource. The first process is allocated to consume the capacity of the first resource and the capacity of the pseudo resource. The third process is allocated to consume the capacity of the second resource and the capacity of the pseudo resource. The second process is allocated to consume the remaining capacity of the pseudo resource.