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Process Definition / WIP Tracking
- Version-controlled process modeling and execution engine
- Products, Steps, Operations, Documents (internal or external, text or multimedia)
- Configurable, hierarchical site model
- Areas, Locations, Tools, Child Tools/Chambers
- Library of dozens of standard operation types to cover all types of complex manufacturing processes
- Full traceability and genealogy of
- Batches, Die creation, Multi-level BOM/consumption, Splits, Merges
- Reworks
- Future Actions
- Data Collection
Inventory & BOM
- Maintain all required consumables, spare parts, suppliers, customers
- Support for minimum re-order levels, lead times
- Perform real-time, 2-way ERP integration
- Define inventory locations and create interactive image maps for a graphical depiction
- Define versioned Bills of Material
- Perform consumption using interactive assembly drawings
Insights Analytics
- AI powered, interactive dashboards to analyze and track more than 80 manufacturing KPIs
- Smart Narratives analyze and interpret the data for you
- Slice, dice, and drill-through navigation with visual decomposition trees
- ROLAP schema, purpose-built for efficient analytics transformed from the OLTP structure
Asset Management
- Preventative Maintenance using defined procedures for:
- Tools
- Durables
- General Assets
- Multiple scheduling types
- Time elapsed
- Calendar
- Lots processed
- Components processed
- Event/Alarm triggers
- Spare Parts
- Consumables
- Data Collection
Statistical Process Control (SPC)
- Real-time SPC for predictive, actionable events before processes cause scrap
- Multiple chart types
- XR, XmR, XS, nP, P, C, U, Levey Jennings, MedianR, MedianS, EWMA, Run
- Multiple rule types
- Western Electric, Nelson, Westgard
- Manual and automatic control limits
- Static and dynamic filters
- Histogram
- Metrics
- Z-Score
- Watchdog timer / alert
Work Orders
- Provides link between APS / ERP systems and MES
- Convenient visibility to the progress of WIP through the line
- Real-time APS / MES integration
- Leverage constant monitoring of Work Order progress to adjust / optimize schedule
Data Collection
- Powerful modeling engine supports multi-dimensional data collection
- Library of built-in functions for calculations
- Build custom math expressions
- Feed forward
- Feed backward
- Actionable, color-coded targets and spec limits
Recipe Management System (RMS)
- Reduce processing errors and scrap
- When used in conjunction with automation (e.g. Equipment Connect) can perform validation against tool recipes
- Create golden recipes
- Supports unlimited number of parameters, with upper and lower limits
- Supports sub-recipes for selective parameter overrides
- Allows for recipe uploads / downloads and parameter validation
Operator Certification
- Used for controlling:
- Which tools can be used during WIP processing
- Which recipes can be used during WIP processing
- Which operations can be performed
- Which tools technicians can maintain
- Document-centric approach to training
- Documents can be:
- Stored internally (including videos)
- Hyperlinked to an external document management system or file share
- Users must be trained before getting certified
- Supervised training
- Self-certification options
- Time and usage-based expiration
- Training matrix for at-a-glance training statuses
Durables
- Use of any of the pre-defined durable types or define your own
- Define capacities, along with units of measure
- Associate WIP to durables
- Monitor usage / counts
- Perform maintenance tasks based on time / usage / events
- Restrict to locations, if required for preventing contamination
Quality Management System
- Full featured QMS with a powerful workflow manager
- Electronic Signatures
- Manage a variety of business processes, including
- Non-Conformance Management
- New Product Introduction (NPI)
- Engineering Change Order (ECO)
- MES Routing Change Approval
- Hazardous Waste Management
- Supplier/Vendor Management
Resources
- Define custom resources, e.g.
- Reticle Pod
- Probe Card
- Sensors
- General Assets
- All resources have a state model, with clear definition of up vs. down states
- Report on availability and performance of resources
- Use Asset Management to perform maintenance and repair
- Perform data collection against the resource
- Use IoT to capture data from sensors
Reticles / Masks
- Define reticle requirements for Photo steps
- Keep inventory of reticles
- Supports a state model for visibility
- Track usage and perform maintenance using Asset Management
- Optionally define Reticle Pods and Stockers
IoT & Factory Automation
- Large number of connectivity options, 2-way and 1-way
- Standard protocols and message structures
- SECS/GEM, OPC UA, JSON, XML, Key/Value pairs, MQTT, BMQ, Tibco RV, …
- Adapts to non-standard communication/integration for legacy applications
- Handle high volume / high throughput
- Create data historian using automated data collection
- Perform SPC from the data collected
- Send selective, summary data to MES
- Control tools and processes, including recipes
Experiment Management
- Engineers can rapidly create experiments for processing specific lots without affecting production WIP
- Reuse existing process building blocks:
- Create altered process routes
- Override recipes
- Override certain process parameters
- Add special instructions for operator
- Split components
- Skip steps
- Add holds
- Integrated with QMS for sign-offs and approvals
Advanced Planning and Scheduling
- Data driven process modeling
- Orders, delivery dates, capacity, and constraints / business rules as baseline inputs
- Configurable, hierarchical site model
- Plant, Production Area(s), Process(es), and Scenario(s)
- Holistic optimization
- Considering all inputs, ability model any real-world manufacturing challenges
- Re-Plan or Re-Schedule
- Real-time integration with MES
Automated Data Services
- End-user configurable data loader engine
- Low-cost option for one-way data acquisition from legacy tools
- Import data from flat file sources (CSV, XLS, …) and external database tables
- Execute API calls
- Perform data migration from legacy systems
Real Time Dispatching
- Prioritize WIP processing using flexible, configurable dispatch rules
- Filter, sort, group WIP at tools / workstations
- Choose from a variety of rule factors, e.g.
- Priority, Due Date, FIFO/LIFO, Critical Ratio, Batching Considerations, Queue Time, Enforced Timers, …
- Simulates WIP movement to provide visibility and capabilities:
- Upstream (tool perspective)
- Downstream (WIP perspective)
- Real-time updates on every WIP movement
- Works in conjunction with the APS module to receive real-time optimizations to the schedule
