  |  | | WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT Applied Materials Activity Manager
In today's FPD manufacturing environment increasing glass complexity, technological advancements and rising expenses are driving plants to automate many production operations in an effort to stay competitive and increase yield. Activity Manager can sense changes inside the factory or business operations, detect events and exceptions, decide best course of action, and respond in real-time with plant resources to resolve workflow decisions. A powerful configuration environment provides users with the means to quickly and easily create, modify, or extend application rules which can be deployed in real-time without the need for complex programming or extensive recompilations. Activity Manager ensures that workflow decisions and exceptions are handled in a consistent manner by keeping production running with minimum human intervention.Benefits - Resolve and control any anomaly affected operation
- Coordinate resource allocation for multiple jobs
- Resolve manufacturing bottlenecks
- Improve production performance
- Reduce idle time by intelligent movement/pre-staging of resources
- Reserve and allocate resources proactively
- Provide continuous improvement using exception handling logic
Real-Time Dispatching
Solving complex scheduling problems is not easy. Applied Materials' Real-Time Dispatcher (RTD) uses discrete event simulation to test and validate decision rules and then implements the rules using real-time dispatching. Validating rules first ensures that new scheduling policies deliver the desired effect but do not disrupt production. Continuous improvement can be made to the rules so that new learning is applied and implemented immediately. Benefits - Proven ROI in lowering cycle time, improving cycle time variability and throughput of the supply chain
- Fast decisions based on user-defined rules
- Immediate implementation of enterprise logic changes
- Alleviate bottlenecks in the supply chain
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