METHOD FOR DETECTION OF MANUFACTURE DEFECTS

A novel method for detection of manufacture defects is disclosed. The invented method is designed to discover root cause machine sets that cause defects in product manufactured in a process wherein a plurality of machines is involved. The method includes obtaining manufacture data that relate to manufacture of products in the manufacture process, generating a candidate list of machine set by analyzing the manufacture data wherein the machine set includes machines relative to defects in the products, and identifying root cause machine sets from the list of machine set wherein the root cause machine sets include machines highly related to the defects.