ADVANCED PRODUCTIVITY Real Time Decision-Making for Continuous Productivity Improvement
Traditional build-to-forecast manufacturing is no longer a viable way to plan and schedule your shop floor assets. Today's dynamic market demands that a production plan be based on visibility to real-time supply chain events. Enterprise systems such as ERP must fully interoperate with shop floor applications to plan and schedule manufacturing assets to reduce inventory and meet customer delivery dates. Applied Material's planning and scheduling solutions provide real time decision-making to ensure that the right product or part is at the right place at the right time. Our applications quickly execute complex dispatch logic to improve manufacturing operations. Connecting the shop floor to the top floor is easy with Applied's Enterprise Integration Hub (EI Hub). The EI Hub allows shop floor manufacturing execution information such as WIP and equipment status information to be shared with enterprise business applications. Rules Based Dispatching
Solving complex scheduling problems is not easy. Applied Materials software 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
Manufacturing Simulation and Modeling Solutions
Simulation allows manufacturers to “look ahead” and perform “what-if” scenarios to solve a variety of manufacturing operations problems such as equipment layout, asset utilization, and workflow issues to name a few. | 
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Using a virtual 3D model to simulate real-world manufacturing environments increases operational understanding and improves decision making. The virtual model reduces the risk of making changes that could adversely affect operations. Simulation is a key component of an Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solution giving decision makers a vision of how their ideas will work in future operations.
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Applied Materials is the leading developer of simulation and modeling software that is widely used in many of the world's most complex and demanding manufacturing environments. Our solutions include AutoMod, AutoSched AP, and ToolSim. Each of these products has a specific orientation to a particular class of system. AutoMod – Designed for detailed analysis of operations. Although mainly used in manufacturing and material handling systems analysis, AutoMod's flexible architecture allows it to be used in a wide range of application areas, from shipping ports to fast food restaurants. The optional add-on modules will increase functionality for a rasnge of industries and applications. AutoSched AP – Developed for modeling manufacturing operations where data is available to describe the equipment set, part routing, and customer order profiles. Typically AutoSched AP uses a link to the ERP or MES system to get up-to-date, accurate information about manufacturing operations. ToolSim – Provides an analysis “test bench” for complex manufacturing equipment such as semiconductor cluster tools. Using ToolSim, decision makers can improve equipment performance and test their ideas prior to making costly tool changes.
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