Run manager module for CORAL laboratory management

Abstract

This thesis describes a new module, the Run Manager (RM), for Stanford Nanofabrication Facility's Common Object Representation for Advanced Laboratories (CORAL). CORAL is the lab manager with which MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratories hopes to replace its outmoded, fifteen-year-old lab manager. RM will be used to collect and store parameterized information about each step in the device fabrication process, which labs will use to automatically generate accounting, maintenance, and lot history reports. RM consists of an XML (Extensible Markup Language)- configurable Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) application server, database storage, and a Graphical User Interface (GUI) module which will be integrable with the existing CORAL Java client.