A semiconductor manufacturing system for performing a predetermined process
in accordance with a job file having a process content set therein. The
manufacturing system includes a storage device for memorizing a job file,
an accepting device for accepting a job file, a correction device for
correcting, on the basis of a process content of a job file already
memorized, a process content set in a job file as newly accepted, and a
predicting device for predicting a time for completion of the process, on
the basis of the job file as already memorized and the job file having its
process content corrected by the correction device.