  |  | | MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS BY INDUSTRY Applied Materials, a supplier of leading edge, best-of-breed application software, has been providing manufacturing solutions for decades. Applied Materials focuses its R&D investment to pioneer technology that delivers leading-edge, real-time enterprise visibility by bridging the gaps in traditional enterprise to manufacturing systems. Applied Materials solutions address all aspects of manufacturing lifecycle management: modeling and simulation, real-time execution tracking, statistical process control, real-time scheduling and dispatching, enterprise asset utilization, design of experiments, and supply-chain integration and execution visibility.
In any manufacturing enterprise, being able to view what is happening on your factory floor in real time is crucial to managing your operations. This manufacturing visibility enables you to make decisions that optimize asset utilization, minimize WIP, increase throughput, and manage key resources such as labor, parts, and assets. Tracking events on the factory floor and using this data to run simulations and perform what-if analysis may help with key decisions, such as how to load your work cell or what changes to make in your supply-chain.   
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