As the competitive environment grows fiercer and as regulatory bodies crack down on calibration and process control capabilities, life sciences companies are struggling to find more efficient ways of managing their plant floor assets. Outside of regulatory concerns, asset management problems significantly impact quality levels and overall return on assets. Solution
Applied Materials Medic EAM™ (Equipment Asset Management) solution is designed to meet not only the compliance needs of a life-sciences manufacturer, by improving and automating many key processes associated with equipment management. Key functionality includes: - Equipment hierarchies to ensure global and consistent use of best practices
- Tool status management
- Equipment state and schedule
- Preventative maintenance management
- Maintenance schedules based on time, cycles, volume, etc.
- Spare parts inventory management
- Integration with MES to ensure capacity optimization and recall management
- Work order management including calibration instructions
- Comprehensive asset reporting
The broad functionality built into Applied Materials Medic EAM solution, combined with its ability to integrate with other Applied Materials applications, enables companies to realize unprecedented compliance, efficiency, and bottom-line benefits. Some of these benefits include: - Optimum equipment utilization
- Complete equipment visibility
- Improved plant throughput
- Decreased spares inventory
- Improved return of assets
- Reduced equipment downtime
- Improved compliance and tracking capabilities
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"Companies with lean supply networks and streamlined production operations will find the next major profit opportunity is in managing the performance of their assets." - Alison Smith
AMR Research
"Single version of the truth—A normalized view of maintenance activities and performance across a fleet of assets eliminates time-consuming data collection and interpretation efforts."
- Alison Smith
AMR Research
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