APF RTD/ APF Reporter

APF Real Time Dispatcher (RTD) and APF Reporter are the only real-time, high-performance dispatching and reporting solutions that help manufacturers develop customized rules and improve dispatching analyses and decisions. APF RTD directs pre-staging, releases lots and adjusts load balancing of production equipment through “what next, where next and when next” rules that improve utilization of equipment, carriers and labor. APF Reporter provides report tools that manufacturers can use to analyze manufacturing data and improve performance.

• Overcomes bottleneck issues to drive customer “hot lots”
• Reduces cycle time and cycle-time variability by up to 50 percent, increases tool utilization by 10 percent and improves throughput as much as 15 percent
• Allows planners to define selection logic in rules and make production dispatching decisions in real time
• Offers a no-code, easy-to-use rule formatter for defining dispatch rules to evaluate manufacturing data
• Promotes continuous improvement by enabling users to build a reservoir of intellectual property into dispatch rules
• Collects and stores data from multiple sources in a high-speed, temporal repository, providing rapid access to shop-floor status and complete historical data over definable time periods

Benefits

• Improve productivity
• Increase profitability
• Enhance customer satisfaction
• Alleviate bottlenecks
• Lower cycle-time and cycle-time variability

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