A method of monitoring a thermal processing system in real-time using a built-in self test (BIST) table to detect, diagnose and/or predict fault conditions and/or degraded performance. The method includes positioning a plurality of wafers in a processing chamber in the thermal processing system, performing a self test process, determining a real-time transient error from a measured transient response and a baseline transient response determined by a BIST rule stored in the BIST table, and comparing the transient error to operational limits and warning limits established by the BIST rule for the self test process.

 
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