Life Sciences manufacturers have made significant investments in a number of enterprise applications in an effort to improve operational performance and drive greater efficiencies throughout the enterprise. Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Management, Document Management, to name a few, serve the needs of different parts of the enterprise. Yet with all this investment in automating business processes, Life Sciences manufacturers are still challenged to deliver quality products at a competitive price while meeting regulatory compliance mandates. Solution
Applied Materials Medic Solution integrates critical shop floor information with other enterprise applications allowing Life Sciences manufacturers to derive greater strategic value from their investment. Solving business challenges requires real-time visibility to supply chain events. Applied Materials Sense Decide Respond™ architecture allows manufacturers to “sense” changes in customer demand, or to detect a quality problem, “decide” what changes are needed to address the problem, and “respond” with the appropriate action. Applied Materials Medic Solution for Life Sciences manufacturers is built on a Unified and Open Technology Framework, enabling full compliance to regulatory requirements such as 21 CFR Part 11, 21 CFR Part 820 and EU/ISO 13485/14971. Applied Materials Medic Solution includes Manufacturing Execution, Enterprise Quality Management, Process Optimization, Enterprise Assets Management and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID). All of these elements are fully integrated and interoperable in a Unified Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and allow manufacturers to combine multiple capabilities and expose them to end-users as a single set of composite applications. What this means to the end user is the ability to solve specific business problems with functionality to serve the needs of the user. Every functional element can be broken down into more granular components (called "Applied Materials Functional Parts" (AMFPs that could in turn be combined with other AMFPs that are typically distributed in nature. The interaction between different AMFPs can be defined through the core of the Manufacturing & Compliance Framework and can be characterized as peer-to-peer or hierarchical. It has a workflow engine that acts as a flow composer and at the same time, provides a unified system administration and security including single sign-on and integrated authentication. It also operates as an integration broker with external enterprise systems such as ERP, PLM, SCM, etc. and external portals. Medic leverages leading edge technologies such as XML Web Services, LDAP and Industry Standards such as ISA 95 and OAGIS. The solutions can be implemented on various platforms including HP-UX, Solaris or Windows platforms. Additionally, AMFPs also provides a Unified Development Environment that allows its customers to easily build and/or extend the set of composite applications. These composite applications can be defined based on roles or processes.
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"Composite Applications are the next generation of customized applications that promise to lower IT costs by reusing rather than rewriting business functionality. -Eric Austvold
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The Applied Materials composite applications address the market trend for integrated architectures from automation vendors to feed ERP with actionable “actuals” from manufacturing in near- to real-time. -Simon Jacobson, Colin Masson
AMR Research
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