Activity Manager

Activity Manager improves factory utilization and productivity by providing fab managers with an easy-to-use, icon-based visual development environment that allows them to create workflow-based jobs in real time. Users can discover untapped manufacturing capacity and take advantage of it by improving pull scheduling, shortening production lead times and reducing work-in-process (WIP) inventory.

• Improves management and control of resources, equipment, software applications and personnel
• Stores, manages and executes jobs using a server process
• Enables users to automate a process using a series of linked blocks, each representing an activity
• Reduces idle time by intelligent movement or pre-staging of lots and carriers
• Reserves and allocates resources proactively, reducing white space
• Integrates with Applied APF RTD® repository to start jobs based upon state changes or events
• Integrates with external systems to sense event changes and trigger automation jobs

Benefits

• Coordinate resource allocation for multiple jobs
• Resolve manufacturing bottlenecks
• Improve equipment performance
• Adapt quickly to changing conditions

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