Manufacturers are recognizing the need to be more effective in responding to volatility, complexity and demands from both customers and regulators. Manufacturing based on a forecast is no longer adequate to meet business objectives in an increasingly competitive global market. Companies must operate in real-time, driving events from the supply chain directly down to the manufacturing floor. The demand-driven world requires an adaptive and responsive manufacturing environment capable of real-time manufacturing execution to remain competitive. Integrating enterprise business applications with plant floor systems is essential for achieving the demand driven supply network. Applied's real-time manufacturing application suite deploys an event-based architecture designed to synchronize production with market demand in real-time. Applied's Enterprise Interoperability Hub (EI Hub) provides an ISA-S95 and OAG-compliant for connecting your plant floor applications with business applications such as ERP, PLM and SCM.
Applied's solutions are adding value to a host of competitive strategies, from lean initiatives to supply chain execution. They also provide rich, real-time actionable intelligence for performance management and decision support along with the real-time closed loop automation to ensure profitable response to both variability in production and volatility in the supply chain.
In addition to speeding new product introductions and decreasing time-to-volume, Applied Materials has helped manufacturers in key industries achieve results such as:
Cycle-time reductions: as much as 50%
Process yield improvements: as much as 5%-20%
Reduction in cycle time variability: as much as 50%
Reduction in direct labor: as much as 50%
Throughput improvement: as much as 25%
Cycle time variability reduction: as much as 45%