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COMPLETE MODULAR SOLUTION

Modular, yet fully integrated management of shop-floor resources to accelerate
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COMPLETE MODULAR SOLUTION

Modular, yet fully integrated management of shop-floor resources to accelerate
progress towards your Industry 4.0 goals.

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FULLY INTEGRATED AND MODULAR MES

Built by a seasoned team of high tech industry manufacturing IT professionals,
Critical Manufacturing MES goes beyond error-proof operations management,
offering advanced IoT data management and analytics, Augmented Reality, a
manufacturing Digital Twin and modern, intuitive interfaces that will empower
the next generation of workers.




ACHIEVE PROCESS AND PRODUCT EXCELLENCE

Critical Manufacturing MES is comprehensive and modular, deep and radically
configurable, allowing you to upgrade to Industry 4.0 with confidence. It
supports current and new processes, products and employees in ways that are
unimaginable for users of older products.

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GAIN ADVANCED CAPABILITIES ON YOUR SHOP FLOOR

Critical Manufacturing MES ensures a modular, yet fully integrated management of
shop-floor resources.  The 30+ product capabilities are fully interoperable and
provide you with real-time visibility and control across global manufacturing
operations:

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Manufacturing Operations
Batch, Lot & Unit Tracking

BATCH, LOT & UNIT TRACKING

It only takes one single unit of bad product to ruin your brand reputation.
Critical Manufacturing’s material model supports all types of batch, lot and
unit configurations and enables virtually any material logical and physical
operation of a discrete manufacturing process.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Hierarchical Material model with different levels of Material tracking.
 * Rich set of material transactions, including: Dispatch, Undispatch, Track-In,
   Track-Out, Abort, Rework, Temporary Off-Flow, Move-Next, Special Move-Next,
   Split, Merge, Store, Retrieve, Change Quantity, Change Product, Attach,
   Detach, Combine, Compose, Assemble, Disassemble, Hold, Release, Ship, and
   Receive.
 * Support for primary and secondary units of measures as well as automatic unit
   of measure conversions.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased operational efficiency.
 * Complete real-time traceability and genealogy at the individual batch, lot or
   serialized unit.

Data Sheet
Traceability & Genealogy

TRACEABILITY & GENEALOGY

Capturing the real-time state of every material and managing their life cycle in
the plant is absolutely essential for shop-floor operations. For traceability
purposes, the history of every material must be captured in the system.

In the Critical Manufacturing MES system, a material is a generic hierarchical
object with a rich life cycle supported by a very comprehensive set of
transactions to track all materials in the shop floor while recording their
complete history and genealogy, accessible through real-time queries or via
customizable historical reports.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Complete traceability of individual materials
 * Genealogy of individual or lot materials in real time or through custom
   reporting

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased operational efficiency
 * Increased visibility and monitoring capabilities
 * Paper reduction


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data sheet
Routing and Dispatching

ROUTING AND DISPATCHING

In any manufacturing environment, it’s necessary to define in a controlled
manner the different process flows that can be assigned to products and
materials. These process flows can also include rework flows to recover material
from certain problems.

Dispatching provides a mechanism to define flexible material sorting rules for a
step or for a resource, so that the operator knows what is the next material to
be processed, or the next resource for a material. Dispatching works based on
services. Resources provide services and materials require services at certain
processing contexts (Step, Flow, Product, etc.). When there is a match between
the service required by the material and the service provided by the resource,
the material can be dispatched and processed in that resource.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for flow version management with access and change control.
 * Support for hierarchical flows that contain other flows in order to promote
   flow re-usability.
 * Support for alternate flows, alternate steps, and optional steps.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased process control
 * Increased process automation
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data sheet
Data Collection & Acquisition

DATA COLLECTION & ACQUISITION

The large amount of data generated during manufacturing operations is very
valuable and required for the purposes of quality, traceability, monitoring,
control, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement. As an integral part of
the Manufacturing Execution System (MES), all collected data is highly
contextualized, thus enabling all sorts of correlations.

Data Collection module of Critical Manufacturing MES allows predefined data
collections to take place at certain processing points (e.g.: at Track-In or
Track-Out) using context resolution. It also supports the capture of data at any
time using an ad-hoc data collection. Data can be collected manually or
automatically via automation.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for qualitative and quantitative parameters, with validation tables
   and ranges for the acceptable data values.
 * Support for parameter groups and calculated parameters.
 * Integrated with Material Tracking, Resource Tracking, Maintenance Management
   and SPC.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased operational efficiency
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors
 * Improved process control


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Operator Training & Certification

OPERATOR TRAINING & CERTIFICATION

The work force is a critical aspect of any manufacturing operation. It’s
necessary to organize employees into teams, manage their work calendar, track
their skills, and ensure that only qualified personnel perform certain tasks.

The Labor Management module of Critical Manufacturing MES provides features to
support for the management of employees, the tracking of certifications and
qualifications, shift planning as well as it includes a shift logbook to pass
information between shifts.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Capability to define that Qualifications and Certifications expire after a
   certain time interval, so that the Qualification or Certification need to be
   renewed.
 * Ability to define minimum Certification requirements and automatic assignment
   of Employees to that Certification when they meet those requirements.
 * Capability to enforce Certifications when performing operations on a given
   Resource, Step or Product.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased operational efficiency
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors
 * Improved process control


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Bill-of-Materials (BOM)

BILL-OF-MATERIALS (BOM)

Critical Manufacturing MES has complete Bill-of-Materials (BOM) support, with
lists of raw materials, subassemblies, intermediate assemblies, components,
sub-components, parts and respective quantities that are required to manufacture
one unit of a final product through assembly. These BOMs can be imported and
integrated directly from ERP or PLM software, or created manually in the system
by loading a product BOM file. The system also allows visualization of the
imported BOM, as well as the complete Product tree.

KEY FEATURES

 * Faster loading of product information into MES.
 * Visualization of complete product tree in the MES.
 * Reusability of similar product structures in engineering and experiment
   scenarios.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased process control.
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Consumables Management

CONSUMABLES MANAGEMENT

Modern Consumable tracking can lead to shorter wait periods in production
environments and improve stock level efficiency and maintenance thresholds.
Critical Manufacturing MES allows knowing and tracking accurate levels of
consumables in any process step and resource through consumable feeds in system
resources, automatic inventory management with the flexibility of customized
picking rules and detailed movements between warehouses, ensuring that the right
material, configuration, process and documents are used in manufacturing.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Keep updated levels for consumables with inventory tracking.
 * Use the right part at the right step of the process.
 * Reduce waste and excess inventory, streamlining the entire operation.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data sheet
Tooling Management

TOOLING MANAGEMENT

Adequate tool management is vital to the efficiency of a production process, by
increasing visibility over the state and usage of tools in the shop floor.
Ensuring the proper tool is used in the right process step for the target
product helps to increase quality.

Critical Manufacturing MES tracks the usage, lifecycle and maintenance of
multiple tooling solutions required for manufacturing operations, storing the
information as part of the material history that can be used in reports and
ensures full traceability. The process routing definition can  associate the
appropriate tool to the right process step and verify current usage, with
built-in processes for calibration verification.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Increase visibility of the tools used in the shop floor.
 * Ensures that the right tool is used at the right process step.
 * Track equipment calibration to ensure quality standards are met.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Work Instructions / SOPs

WORK INSTRUCTIONS / SOPS

Manufacturing operations that need to be performed manually can be quite
complex. Checklists provide step-by-step guidance to the user throughout the
execution of complex operations.

Critical Manufacturing MES provides fully integrated work instruction
visualization through the use of electronic checklists that provide step-by-step
guidance to the user throughout the execution of complex operations. With a
variety of documents which are relevant for manufacturing, including technical
sheets, drawings, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) or work instructions,
it is essential to perform easy factory-wide information and document management
through importing and versioning external files, CAD schematics and product
specification documents that can be assigned to specific tasks in the production
process.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for optional and mandatory checklist items.
 * Support for sequential checklist items as well as floating checklist items
   that can be performed at any time without following any sequence.
 * Support for checklist item parameters and electronic signatures.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased process control.
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors.
 * Paper reduction.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Label & Document Printing

LABEL & DOCUMENT PRINTING

During the manufacturing process it may be necessary to print labels (e.g.:
Material Identification) and documents (e.g.: Certificate of Conformance) that
must follow specific designs containing labels, pictures and barcodes, and must
be printed in specific printers. The labels contain static and dynamic
information, such as the lot number, quantity, and manufacturing date.

The Advanced Layout and Printing is an integrated module of Critical
Manufacturing MES that provides the ability to design and print labels, lot
travelers and other types of documents.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Integrated visual drag-n-drop visual designer.
 * Support for lot travelers that are generated dynamically by combining the
   sequence of lot travelers for the individual steps in a flow.
 * Support for both static and dynamic elements (text, pictures, barcodes) that
   can be resolved during runtime (e.g.: lot  name or product description).

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased operational efficiency.
 * Improved traceability and regulatory compliance.
 * Reduction of errors.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Task Management

TASK MANAGEMENT

The manufacturing environment is very fluid and complex. A lot of issues may
require attention and action. In order to keep track of all the open issues as
well as to have clear visibility about the ownership and progress of the
different actions, it’s necessary to have a mechanism to track and manage
factory-wide tasks.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Dedicated task pane for every user about his/her open tasks.
 * Support for sending notification emails (including reminders) to the task
   owner and task requester.
 * Integration with the Material Tracking, Resource Tracking, Maintenance
   Management and Exception Management modules.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased process control.
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors.
 * Paper reduction.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Order Management

ORDER MANAGEMENT

Sometimes, it may be necessary to break-down a large order in multiple lots or
batches and to have the flexibility to assign  and re-assign lots to different
orders. Order Management provides the functionality to track the different
customer orders and to fulfill the orders either by assigning work-in-process
material, finished goods, or creating new materials for the order.

KEY FEATURES

 * Ability to assign and re-assign Materials (not started, in progress and
   completed) to a Production Order.
 * Capability to view the real-time state of the Production Order (in-progress,
   completed, delivered).
 * Capability to create all the necessary Materials to fulfill an Order, taking
   into consideration the Yield, Minimum and Maximum lot sizes, and required
   sub-components manufactured in-house by performing a BOM Explosion.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved order management and order tracking
 * Increased visibility and monitoring


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Process Engineering
NPI

NPI

The New Product Introduction module supports the loading, association and
visualization of an ECAD file of type ODB++ with a Product. It also supports the
loading of a Product BOM file with the component information. The CAD file can
be used later to create work instructions as part of a checklist.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Supports the loading and visualization of an ECAD file that can be used to
   create work instructions, and a product BOM file.
 * Supports capturing material defects manually or through an automated
   inspection equipment.
 * Supports managing the lifecycle of a defect.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Faster new product introduction.
 * Improved operator information and reduction in the opportunity for errors.
 * Using defect information for First Pass Yield calculations.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Recipe Management

RECIPE MANAGEMENT

As manufacturing relies on increasingly more complex equipment, the management
of the recipes that the equipment will use for a certain process becomes
increasingly important. It’s a basic requirement to ensure that the right recipe
with the right parameters is used for the right process. A centralized
electronic recipe management system is required for process automation and in
some cases, some parameters need to be resolved dynamically on-the-fly to
implement feed-forward and feedback mechanisms. Information about use recipes is
a traceability requirement and an enabler for  performance and efficiency
improvement.

Critical Manufacturing MES provides capabilities to manage, download, upload,
resolve and instantiate recipes. The Recipe object model is based on the SEMI
E139 standard and the module is pre-integrated with Connect IoT for equipment
automation.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Provision of a centralized factory wide recipe catalog and recipe store.
 * Provision of a mechanism to edit recipes that includes the recipe body,
   recipe parameters and sub-recipes.
 * Support for recipe version management with access and change control.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Reduction of scrap and rework.
 * Improved learning speed.
 * Improved equipment utilization.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Experiment Management

EXPERIMENT MANAGEMENT

The Experiment Management module is fully integrated with the MES to support
both the design of the experiment (DoE) and the execution of the experiment. The
execution of experiments is completely transparent to both the users and the 
applications that support manufacturing operations. Experiment lots are tracked
and processed in the same way as any other lot and the system automatically
enforces the set variations.

KEY FEATURES

 * Centralized experiment definition system.
 * Supports experiment version management with access and change control.
 * Supports both full-material and sub-material level experiments. When using
   sub-material level experiments, define multiple variations for different lot
   sub-level groups at the same or different steps.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Faster speed of learning.
 * Increased visibility, tracking and monitoring of experiments.
 * Increased operational efficiency.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet Learn more
Equipment Engineering
Equipment Tracking

EQUIPMENT TRACKING

Equipment is becoming increasingly complex and expensive. The equipment health,
performance and utilization are key factors in the operations efficiency and in
the company profitability, being the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) a
closely monitored indicator.

Increasing levels of manufacturing sophistication and automation require that
the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) keeps track of both the equipment
master data information, equipment state and equipment history. Critical
Manufacturing MES Resource Tracking provides a hierarchical object model to
model virtually any type of equipment and it provides all the functionality
required for managing and tracking resources.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Hierarchical Resource Model with different levels of Material Tracking.
 * Rich set of transactions (Change Resource State, Change System State, Store
   Material, Retrieve Material, Dock Container, Undock Container, Perform Data
   Collection, Manage Durables, Manage Consumables, Manage Instruments).
 * User defined state models with pre-configured SEMI-E10 state model.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
 * Reduction of downtime and unplanned breakdowns.
 * Increased visibility and monitoring real-time capabilities.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Maintenance Management

MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT

The Maintenance Management module supports the creation of maintenance plans and
their associated activities. Critical Manufacturing MES ensures that maintenance
plans are followed as defined and keeps track of the maintenance history for
every equipment. As a fully integrated module, the usage counters are
automatically increased as material is processed and prevents equipment from
being used if maintenance is due. The system also checks the certifications of
maintenance technicians and updates the inventory of spare parts as they are
consumed. The Scheduling module is alerted of planned maintenance down times to
ensure that equipment is unavailable.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support time-based, usage-based and ad-hoc (on demand) maintenance
   activities.
 * Support multiple maintenance plans per resource (equipment), container, area
   or material.
 * Prevent resources, containers or materials from being used if a maintenance
   activity is after late due.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved operational equipment effectiveness.
 * Better equipment utilization and reduction of downtime.
 * Improved spare parts inventory management.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Calibration

CALIBRATION

Whether you need manual tools or automatic scales or dispensing tools, equipment
calibration should be automatic and built into the process, so that quality
remains at the forefront of the process definition. The definition and capture
of measurement instruments, ensuring that they are calibrated and that they
cover the required range and have the required precision, is paramount to the
efficiency and quality desired in a modern production process.

Critical Manufacturing MES ensures the calibration and verification of
instruments is met by seamlessly integrating this process within the regular
production process steps, with procedures in place to avoid using gauges or
instruments with expired calibration status while maintaining traceability for
the entire process.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Track and record information on expiration dates for individual tools and
   instruments.
 * Improve quality by monitoring degradation throughout the instrument
   lifecycle.
 * Integrate maintenance activities seamlessly to prevent usage of instruments
   with expired calibration status.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved operational equipment effectiveness.
 * Better equipment utilization.
 * Reduction of downtime.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Quality Management
Statistical Process Control (SPC)

STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL (SPC)

Statistical Process Control (SPC) is a method of applying statistical methods
and techniques in order to monitor and control a process. Using historical
process data, it’s possible to check whether a certain process is under control
and it’s possible to calculate the respective control limits, that is the Voice
of the Process (VoP).

Statistical Process Control (SPC) is a pre-integrated module that is used to
monitor the stability and quality of a certain process as well as to identify
and flag problems as early as possible. When a problem is identified, it’s
possible to trigger an action such as sending an email, putting the lot on hold,
or putting the equipment down. It’s also possible to open an exception protocol
workflow to correct the situation.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for flexible Chart context definitions so that different Charts are
   created automatically by the system for every different context combination
   (e.g.: one Chart per Resource).
 * Support for Variable Charts (Average and Range (X̅ R), Average and Standard
   Deviation (X̅ s), Median and Range (X ̃R), Individual and Moving Range
   (I-MR)) and Attribute Charts (Fraction Defective (p), Number Defective (np),
   Average number of Defects (u), Number of Defects (c)).
 * Capability of setting the specification limits directly at the Chart level or
   to inherit them automatically from the Product definition which is subject to
   change control.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Reduction of scrap, rework, and customer complaints.
 * Improved equipment utilization.
 * Reduction of costs.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Corrective & Preventive Action (CAPA)

CORRECTIVE & PREVENTIVE ACTION (CAPA)

During manufacturing operations, it’s inevitable that some problems, exceptions,
and deviations will occur. It’s important to address these problems quickly and
systematically. Some problems will fall within defined patterns and pre-defined
workflows can guide the operators on their resolution, such as SPC violations
which can be addressed by Out-of-Control Action Plans (OCAPs). Other problems
need a more thorough analysis to identity the root cause and to take actions to
address the root cause in order to prevent these problems from occurring again,
such as Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA).

The Exception Management module provides the capability to define and execute
workflows to guide the user in capturing problems and issues and responding to
them. Being an integrated module,  exceptions can be triggered automatically by
system under certain conditions (e.g.: SPC violation).

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Provision of a graphical user interface designer to create exception
   workflows.
 * Support for change control and versioning of exception workflows.
 * Capability to open exception workflows manually or automatically in case that
   SPC rules are violated or Data Collection limits are exceeded.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved quality and regulatory compliance.
 * Reduction of customer complaints.
 * Reduction of downtime.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Non-Conformance Reporting & Dispositions

NON-CONFORMANCE REPORTING & DISPOSITIONS

The Exception Management module of Critical Manufacturing MES provides the
capability to define and execute workflows to guide the user in capturing
problems and issues and responding to them. Being an integrated module,
exceptions can be triggered automatically by system under certain conditions
(e.g.: SPC violation). An exception can also be opened manually at any time in
response to a certain condition.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for material dispositions as part of an exception workflow. For
   example, if a certain problem affects several lots, it’s possible to open an
   exception workflow for the affected lots and then decide on a lot by lot
   basis, what is the action to be taken lot (e.g.: Scrap or Rework).
 * Capability to create tasks as part of an exception workflow and to track the
   progress and state of those tasks (action items) until the completion.
 * Support to capture defects at any part of the process, with seamless
   integration with Data Collection and Inspection modules.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved process repeatability and consistency.
 * Reduction of problem resolution time.
 * Reduction of customer complaints.

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Sampling Based Inspection / AQL

SAMPLING BASED INSPECTION / AQL

In many cases it’s not practical to inspect or measure every single lot; and
even in an inspection or metrology step, it’s not practical to inspect or
measure every single unit of a lot.

Critical Manufacturing MES provides the capability to implement sampling
strategies by pre-defining 1) which materials must go through an inspection or
metrology step based on time or counters; and 2) which sub-materials to be
measured at an inspection or metrology step. Once the sampling strategy is
defined, the system will execute and enforce it automatically.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for static and dynamic inspection plans, including AQL.
 * Support for lot-based sampling strategies based on flexible contexts that can
   be:
   – Counter based (e.g.: every 10th lot of a certain product)
   – Time based (e.g.: one lot from a certain equipment every 8 hours)
 * Support for sub-material selection at a metrology step, for example to
   measure the top, middle and bottom wafers and in that particular sequence.
   The sub-materials to be measured can be defined manually or by a business
   rule (system or user-defined).

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved process control.
 * Reduction of costs.
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors.

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet
Document Management

DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT

There are many documents which are relevant for manufacturing, including
technical sheets, drawings, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) or work
instructions. Documents need to be created, approved, published, and
distributed, and most importantly, the right documents need to be presented to
the user at the right time. When a new version is set effective, it’s important
to ensure that the new version supersedes previous one. Also, for regulatory
compliance, it may be necessary to ensure that the operators read and sign-off
on new document versions.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for document version management with access and change control.
 * Provision of a document change history.
 * Support for documents stored internally by the application or documents
   referenced in an external system (accessible via an URL).

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Reduction of paper and paperwork.
 * Reduction of scrap and rework.
 * Increased operational efficiency.

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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Electronic Signatures

ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES

A thorough process of control and auditability is vital for quality assurance
and for the enforcement of quality standards within an organization. Critical
Manufacturing MES provides user-defined approval workflows with reviewers
defined for each step, enforcing those workflows based on object and type, with
complete control over the approval process displayed in real time to any of the
stakeholders. Providing email notifications and customized pages for pending
approval verifications while maintaining change-controlled objects with approval
workflows, the complete digital process meets all your regulatory and compliance
needs while maintaining a historical record of all approvals and electronic
signatures.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased visibility of master data changes.
 * Improved regulatory compliance.
 * Increased process control.
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors.

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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Planning and Logistics
Advanced Planning & Scheduling

ADVANCED PLANNING & SCHEDULING

The Advanced Planning & Scheduling module generates resource processing
sequences that optimize some key performance indicators, such as equipment
utilization or order fulfillment. While dispatching provides only a local
optimization considering the current state at a Step or a Resource, Scheduling
considers multiple Steps and multiple Resources, as well as a more comprehensive
set of constraints and a bigger time horizon. If required, the system is also
capable of sequencing personnel or tools. Being a fully integrated module, it
has access to all the master data as well as the current WIP and equipment
state, and it can also ensure that the generated resource processing sequences
are followed.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for multiple optimization criteria that can be combined using
   different weights (Minimize Setup Times, Maximize Resource Utilization,
   Minimize Deviation from Delivery Dates, Minimize Total Cycle Time)
 * Support for the generation of multiple schedule scenarios.
 * Support for manual schedule adjustments.
 * Provision of multiple KPIs to assess the quality of the different schedule
   scenarios (Production Time Percentage, Setup Time Percentage, Average Cycle
   Time, Priority Client Satisfaction)

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Faster speed of learning.
 * Increased visibility, tracking and monitoring of experiments.
 * Increased operational efficiency.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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Materials Management

MATERIALS MANAGEMENT

Critical Manufacturing MES supports the business processes related with
requesting materials, fulfilling those requests and moving material between
locations.

The Material Logistics module specifies different material supply paths for
different storage areas and production lines. The system supports three types of
lifecycles: 1) starting with a Transfer Requirement, releasing it into a Pick
List, and then transporting it with a Transfer Order; 2) create a Transfer Order
for a Transfer Requirement; or 3) simply create a Transfer Order.

The Material Logistics module performs automatic replenishment based on user
defined reorder points and target inventory levels and also provides the
capability to take periodic inventories.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Define Material supply paths between Storage Areas and Production Lines.
 * Manage Transfer Requirements, Product and Quantity needs.
 * Approve and release (completely or partially) Transfer Requirements and
   automatically create a Pick List based on pre-defined sorting rules, both for
   material selection and picking sequencing.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved visibility and tracking of material requests.
 * Reduction of material shortages.
 * Reduction of raw materials inventory and raw materials scrap.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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Costing

COSTING

Having accurate and up-to-date manufacturing cost data provides very valuable
information.  Management can use this information to take on cost reduction
initiatives or to adjust pricing structures. Costing module of Critical
Manufacturing MES provides a mechanism to define the different cost structures,
based on time, usage, labor, and materials and then to absorb those costs in
real time.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Provides real-time absorption of material costs in real time considering
   labor, materials as well as step and resource defined cost structures.
 * Access to a Material cost history and Product cost forecast reports.
 * Provides calculation of the cost for every maintenance activity based on its
   parts and labor.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Real-time cost visibility.
 * Better cost forecasting.

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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Visibility and Intelligence
Dashboards

DASHBOARDS

Manufacturing operations generate a lot of data. Being able to present the most
important data in real time and in a visual way that is clear and easy to
understand helps the different stakeholders to understand the current situation
and quickly visualize any problem that requires attention. A Dashboard is a
highly visual mechanism to display different types of data. Dashboards are
created by combining and configuring different widgets such as reports, queries,
resource lists, charts.

The system comes off-the-shelf with the following set of widgets:

• Augmented Reality • Barcode Identification • BI Card • Browser • Button •
Column View • Component Widget • Data Series • Data Value • Date and Time • EDC
Chart • Entity  Attachments • Entity Details • Entity History • Entity Info •
Entity KPI • Entity List View • Entity Tiles • FabLIVE • Filter • Flex • Form •
Grid • Keypad • Live Data • Query • Shift • Sliding Grid • SPC Chart • Tabs
Widget • Text • Tiles Matrix • Timeline Chart • Timer • Transfer Widget • Tree
Map Chart • UI Page

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Responsive design with support for different layouts (e.g.: desktop, mobile
   phone).
 * Easy creation and configuration by power users without coding, which enables
   the creation of optimized Dashboards and GUIs for some specific operational
   scenarios.
 * Capability to define a Dashboard as the homepage for any user.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased operational efficiency.
 * Increased visibility and monitoring.

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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Reporting and Analytics

REPORTING AND ANALYTICS

The Critical Manufacturing Data & Analytics Framework provides a unified,
integrated persistency, reporting and business intelligence platform that can be
used for Critical Manufacturing data and other heterogeneous data sources. The
capabilities of the Data & Analytics framework allow data to be integrated from
any SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Oracle Databases, Excel, CSV, XML, Text files,
SAP and other data sources.

KEY FEATURES

 * Three databases for different purposes (Online, optimized for runtime
   purposes; ODS for mid to long term reporting; and DWH for long term
   aggregation used for analysis and decision support system).
 * A highly scalable Extraction, Transformation and Loading platform based on
   SQL Server Integration Services for high performance data integration,
   merging and transformation of data from different sources.
 * Report Authoring and Publishing platform based on SQL Server Reporting
   Services and Microsoft.
 * Power BI for various types of reports to be created and published.
 * Data Mining algorithms that allow complex analysis of big amounts of data for
   patterns, associations and correlations.
 * An OLAP explorer for visual interactive slicing and dicing of data.
 * R-Services for statistical, machine learning and other type of sophisticated
   data analysis.

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Operational Data Store & Data Warehouse

OPERATIONAL DATA STORE & DATA WAREHOUSE

The Data Warehouse (DWH) provides a set of pre-aggregated and consolidated data
to speed-up and facilitate different type of multi-dimensional analysis. The
cubes provided by the Data Warehouse organize data (measures and indicators)
across a set of predefined dimensions such as Facility, Area, Step, and Time.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Provision of three cubes:
   – Resource
   – Data Collection
   – Production Order
 * Capability to interactive slice and dice data.
 * Provision of access to any data analysis client such as Microsoft Excel or
   Microsoft Power BI.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved data analysis capabilities
 * Faster data access

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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Alarm Management

ALARM MANAGEMENT

In a manufacturing environment, there are many planned tasks and unplanned
issues that require the user attention. Alarm Management provides a mechanism to
send notifications about any event at any time to a user or to a group of users.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for different severity levels with different presentation look and
   feel.
 * Provision of a dedicated user notification pane in the GUI.
 * Capability to send a notification by email to a distribution list.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved visibility about problems.
 * Faster response to tasks and issues.

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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Factory Digital Twin

FACTORY DIGITAL TWIN

Having real-time visibility of the state of the factory is quite important to
quickly react to problems. Visual dashboards can provide easy to understand
information in an intuitive way. fabLIVE allows the customer to design the real
physical layout of the plant and then to monitor the equipment with
instantaneous updates delivered using a publish/subscribe mechanism.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Graphical 3D designer with support for 3D shapes and textures.
 * Support for a shape library with import of .obj threedimensional models.
 * Interactive visualization with support for panning, zooming, and rotating in
   any of the three axes.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased visibility, tracking and monitoring of equipment.
 * Increased operational efficiency.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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Augmented Reality

AUGMENTED REALITY

Augmented Reality enables any task relevant information available inside MES to
be viewed over a live camera shot of the real product, process, line or facility
area. For example, a maintenance technician can check the list of pending and
upcoming maintenance orders at an equipment; or a quality engineer can check the
history of a certain lot simply by pointing their mobile device.

KEY FEATURES

 * Associate objects to different tags and to print the tags.
 * Visualize information for multiple objects at the same time.
 * View and interact with information at the same time, for example, by
   performing actions on a Resource.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Faster speed of learning.
 * Increased visibility, tracking and monitoring of experiments.
 * Increased operational efficiency.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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Automation and Integration
Equipment Integration

EQUIPMENT INTEGRATION

There are many drivers for improving the degree of automation in manufacturing
operations. Typically, there are three types of equipment in the shop floor that
can be integrated: process equipment, metrology equipment and logistics
equipment (automated material storage and retrieval equipment, transport
equipment, such as Automatic Guide Vehicles (AGVs) and Autonomous Intelligent
Vehicles (AIVs).

Connect IoT provides MES equipment integration for different type of
communication interfaces. It is a distributed equipment integration module that
can be used to connect virtually any equipment or device that provides some type
of connectivity.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Centralized configuration and administration of all integrated equipment and
   devices.
 * Version controlled Driver and Controller definitions.
 * Off-the-shelf drivers for the following type of interfaces: Bluetooth Low
   Energy, CSV Files, Databases (currently only MicrosoftTM SQL Server), MQTT,
   IPC-CFX, Fuji Nexim, OIB, OPC-DA, OPC-UA, Raw Files, SECS/GEM, Serial
   Communication (RS-232), TCP/IP Socket, USB Keyboard Wedge.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved operational equipment effectiveness.
 * Better equipment utilization.
 * Reduction of downtime.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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Factory Automation Workflow Management

FACTORY AUTOMATION WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT

For companies that want to deploy high automation, it’s necessary to have a
system that both listens to factory events, and coordinates and orchestrates the
different systems and applications to respond to that factory event. Factory
Automation is a factory-level workflow engine to coordinate different systems
and applications in order to achieve high-automation. Factory Automation module
supports the definition of workflows and links the events to workflows. It also
supports hierarchical job structures as well as long running jobs which have
their state and context persisted in the database. Factory Automation also has
the capability to perform error handling to recover from a variety of possible
problems.

KEY FEATURES

 * Design workflows graphically.
 * Create a library of re-usable workflows.
 * Support short and long-running jobs as well as job hierarchies.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Faster speed of learning.
 * Increased visibility, tracking and monitoring of experiments.
 * Increased operational efficiency.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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Enterprise Integration (ERP, PLM, ...)

ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION (ERP, PLM, ...)

Most manufacturers use a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for product design
and development; and an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for the
high-level management of the company. It’s also common organizations have in
place other type of manufacturing relevant applications in place, such as
document management and training systems. The Enterprise Integration module
provides a robust, bi-directional asynchronous communication mechanism based on
a message queued and a queue processor.

MES provides bi-directional integration to enterprise applications to support
both rapid tactical shifts and strategic business goals. Benefits include:

 * Real-time synchronization between the ERP and the MES
 * Reduction in data entry
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Faster speed of learning.
 * Increased visibility, tracking and monitoring of experiments.
 * Increased operational efficiency.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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IoT Data Platform


BATCH, LOT & UNIT TRACKING

It only takes one single unit of bad product to ruin your brand reputation.
Critical Manufacturing’s material model supports all types of batch, lot and
unit configurations and enables virtually any material logical and physical
operation of a discrete manufacturing process.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Hierarchical Material model with different levels of Material tracking.
 * Rich set of material transactions, including: Dispatch, Undispatch, Track-In,
   Track-Out, Abort, Rework, Temporary Off-Flow, Move-Next, Special Move-Next,
   Split, Merge, Store, Retrieve, Change Quantity, Change Product, Attach,
   Detach, Combine, Compose, Assemble, Disassemble, Hold, Release, Ship, and
   Receive.
 * Support for primary and secondary units of measures as well as automatic unit
   of measure conversions.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased operational efficiency.
 * Complete real-time traceability and genealogy at the individual batch, lot or
   serialized unit.

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TRACEABILITY & GENEALOGY

Capturing the real-time state of every material and managing their life cycle in
the plant is absolutely essential for shop-floor operations. For traceability
purposes, the history of every material must be captured in the system.

In the Critical Manufacturing MES system, a material is a generic hierarchical
object with a rich life cycle supported by a very comprehensive set of
transactions to track all materials in the shop floor while recording their
complete history and genealogy, accessible through real-time queries or via
customizable historical reports.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Complete traceability of individual materials
 * Genealogy of individual or lot materials in real time or through custom
   reporting

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased operational efficiency
 * Increased visibility and monitoring capabilities
 * Paper reduction


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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ROUTING AND DISPATCHING

In any manufacturing environment, it’s necessary to define in a controlled
manner the different process flows that can be assigned to products and
materials. These process flows can also include rework flows to recover material
from certain problems.

Dispatching provides a mechanism to define flexible material sorting rules for a
step or for a resource, so that the operator knows what is the next material to
be processed, or the next resource for a material. Dispatching works based on
services. Resources provide services and materials require services at certain
processing contexts (Step, Flow, Product, etc.). When there is a match between
the service required by the material and the service provided by the resource,
the material can be dispatched and processed in that resource.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for flow version management with access and change control.
 * Support for hierarchical flows that contain other flows in order to promote
   flow re-usability.
 * Support for alternate flows, alternate steps, and optional steps.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased process control
 * Increased process automation
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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DATA COLLECTION & ACQUISITION

The large amount of data generated during manufacturing operations is very
valuable and required for the purposes of quality, traceability, monitoring,
control, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement. As an integral part of
the Manufacturing Execution System (MES), all collected data is highly
contextualized, thus enabling all sorts of correlations.

Data Collection module of Critical Manufacturing MES allows predefined data
collections to take place at certain processing points (e.g.: at Track-In or
Track-Out) using context resolution. It also supports the capture of data at any
time using an ad-hoc data collection. Data can be collected manually or
automatically via automation.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for qualitative and quantitative parameters, with validation tables
   and ranges for the acceptable data values.
 * Support for parameter groups and calculated parameters.
 * Integrated with Material Tracking, Resource Tracking, Maintenance Management
   and SPC.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased operational efficiency
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors
 * Improved process control


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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OPERATOR TRAINING & CERTIFICATION

The work force is a critical aspect of any manufacturing operation. It’s
necessary to organize employees into teams, manage their work calendar, track
their skills, and ensure that only qualified personnel perform certain tasks.

The Labor Management module of Critical Manufacturing MES provides features to
support for the management of employees, the tracking of certifications and
qualifications, shift planning as well as it includes a shift logbook to pass
information between shifts.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Capability to define that Qualifications and Certifications expire after a
   certain time interval, so that the Qualification or Certification need to be
   renewed.
 * Ability to define minimum Certification requirements and automatic assignment
   of Employees to that Certification when they meet those requirements.
 * Capability to enforce Certifications when performing operations on a given
   Resource, Step or Product.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased operational efficiency
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors
 * Improved process control


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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BILL-OF-MATERIALS (BOM)

Critical Manufacturing MES has complete Bill-of-Materials (BOM) support, with
lists of raw materials, subassemblies, intermediate assemblies, components,
sub-components, parts and respective quantities that are required to manufacture
one unit of a final product through assembly. These BOMs can be imported and
integrated directly from ERP or PLM software, or created manually in the system
by loading a product BOM file. The system also allows visualization of the
imported BOM, as well as the complete Product tree.

KEY FEATURES

 * Faster loading of product information into MES.
 * Visualization of complete product tree in the MES.
 * Reusability of similar product structures in engineering and experiment
   scenarios.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased process control.
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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CONSUMABLES MANAGEMENT

Modern Consumable tracking can lead to shorter wait periods in production
environments and improve stock level efficiency and maintenance thresholds.
Critical Manufacturing MES allows knowing and tracking accurate levels of
consumables in any process step and resource through consumable feeds in system
resources, automatic inventory management with the flexibility of customized
picking rules and detailed movements between warehouses, ensuring that the right
material, configuration, process and documents are used in manufacturing.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Keep updated levels for consumables with inventory tracking.
 * Use the right part at the right step of the process.
 * Reduce waste and excess inventory, streamlining the entire operation.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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TOOLING MANAGEMENT

Adequate tool management is vital to the efficiency of a production process, by
increasing visibility over the state and usage of tools in the shop floor.
Ensuring the proper tool is used in the right process step for the target
product helps to increase quality.

Critical Manufacturing MES tracks the usage, lifecycle and maintenance of
multiple tooling solutions required for manufacturing operations, storing the
information as part of the material history that can be used in reports and
ensures full traceability. The process routing definition can  associate the
appropriate tool to the right process step and verify current usage, with
built-in processes for calibration verification.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Increase visibility of the tools used in the shop floor.
 * Ensures that the right tool is used at the right process step.
 * Track equipment calibration to ensure quality standards are met.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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WORK INSTRUCTIONS / SOPS

Manufacturing operations that need to be performed manually can be quite
complex. Checklists provide step-by-step guidance to the user throughout the
execution of complex operations.

Critical Manufacturing MES provides fully integrated work instruction
visualization through the use of electronic checklists that provide step-by-step
guidance to the user throughout the execution of complex operations. With a
variety of documents which are relevant for manufacturing, including technical
sheets, drawings, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) or work instructions,
it is essential to perform easy factory-wide information and document management
through importing and versioning external files, CAD schematics and product
specification documents that can be assigned to specific tasks in the production
process.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for optional and mandatory checklist items.
 * Support for sequential checklist items as well as floating checklist items
   that can be performed at any time without following any sequence.
 * Support for checklist item parameters and electronic signatures.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased process control.
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors.
 * Paper reduction.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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LABEL & DOCUMENT PRINTING

During the manufacturing process it may be necessary to print labels (e.g.:
Material Identification) and documents (e.g.: Certificate of Conformance) that
must follow specific designs containing labels, pictures and barcodes, and must
be printed in specific printers. The labels contain static and dynamic
information, such as the lot number, quantity, and manufacturing date.

The Advanced Layout and Printing is an integrated module of Critical
Manufacturing MES that provides the ability to design and print labels, lot
travelers and other types of documents.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Integrated visual drag-n-drop visual designer.
 * Support for lot travelers that are generated dynamically by combining the
   sequence of lot travelers for the individual steps in a flow.
 * Support for both static and dynamic elements (text, pictures, barcodes) that
   can be resolved during runtime (e.g.: lot  name or product description).

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased operational efficiency.
 * Improved traceability and regulatory compliance.
 * Reduction of errors.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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TASK MANAGEMENT

The manufacturing environment is very fluid and complex. A lot of issues may
require attention and action. In order to keep track of all the open issues as
well as to have clear visibility about the ownership and progress of the
different actions, it’s necessary to have a mechanism to track and manage
factory-wide tasks.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Dedicated task pane for every user about his/her open tasks.
 * Support for sending notification emails (including reminders) to the task
   owner and task requester.
 * Integration with the Material Tracking, Resource Tracking, Maintenance
   Management and Exception Management modules.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased process control.
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors.
 * Paper reduction.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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ORDER MANAGEMENT

Sometimes, it may be necessary to break-down a large order in multiple lots or
batches and to have the flexibility to assign  and re-assign lots to different
orders. Order Management provides the functionality to track the different
customer orders and to fulfill the orders either by assigning work-in-process
material, finished goods, or creating new materials for the order.

KEY FEATURES

 * Ability to assign and re-assign Materials (not started, in progress and
   completed) to a Production Order.
 * Capability to view the real-time state of the Production Order (in-progress,
   completed, delivered).
 * Capability to create all the necessary Materials to fulfill an Order, taking
   into consideration the Yield, Minimum and Maximum lot sizes, and required
   sub-components manufactured in-house by performing a BOM Explosion.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved order management and order tracking
 * Increased visibility and monitoring


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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NPI

The New Product Introduction module supports the loading, association and
visualization of an ECAD file of type ODB++ with a Product. It also supports the
loading of a Product BOM file with the component information. The CAD file can
be used later to create work instructions as part of a checklist.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Supports the loading and visualization of an ECAD file that can be used to
   create work instructions, and a product BOM file.
 * Supports capturing material defects manually or through an automated
   inspection equipment.
 * Supports managing the lifecycle of a defect.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Faster new product introduction.
 * Improved operator information and reduction in the opportunity for errors.
 * Using defect information for First Pass Yield calculations.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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RECIPE MANAGEMENT

As manufacturing relies on increasingly more complex equipment, the management
of the recipes that the equipment will use for a certain process becomes
increasingly important. It’s a basic requirement to ensure that the right recipe
with the right parameters is used for the right process. A centralized
electronic recipe management system is required for process automation and in
some cases, some parameters need to be resolved dynamically on-the-fly to
implement feed-forward and feedback mechanisms. Information about use recipes is
a traceability requirement and an enabler for  performance and efficiency
improvement.

Critical Manufacturing MES provides capabilities to manage, download, upload,
resolve and instantiate recipes. The Recipe object model is based on the SEMI
E139 standard and the module is pre-integrated with Connect IoT for equipment
automation.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Provision of a centralized factory wide recipe catalog and recipe store.
 * Provision of a mechanism to edit recipes that includes the recipe body,
   recipe parameters and sub-recipes.
 * Support for recipe version management with access and change control.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Reduction of scrap and rework.
 * Improved learning speed.
 * Improved equipment utilization.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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EXPERIMENT MANAGEMENT

The Experiment Management module is fully integrated with the MES to support
both the design of the experiment (DoE) and the execution of the experiment. The
execution of experiments is completely transparent to both the users and the 
applications that support manufacturing operations. Experiment lots are tracked
and processed in the same way as any other lot and the system automatically
enforces the set variations.

KEY FEATURES

 * Centralized experiment definition system.
 * Supports experiment version management with access and change control.
 * Supports both full-material and sub-material level experiments. When using
   sub-material level experiments, define multiple variations for different lot
   sub-level groups at the same or different steps.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Faster speed of learning.
 * Increased visibility, tracking and monitoring of experiments.
 * Increased operational efficiency.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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EQUIPMENT TRACKING

Equipment is becoming increasingly complex and expensive. The equipment health,
performance and utilization are key factors in the operations efficiency and in
the company profitability, being the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) a
closely monitored indicator.

Increasing levels of manufacturing sophistication and automation require that
the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) keeps track of both the equipment
master data information, equipment state and equipment history. Critical
Manufacturing MES Resource Tracking provides a hierarchical object model to
model virtually any type of equipment and it provides all the functionality
required for managing and tracking resources.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Hierarchical Resource Model with different levels of Material Tracking.
 * Rich set of transactions (Change Resource State, Change System State, Store
   Material, Retrieve Material, Dock Container, Undock Container, Perform Data
   Collection, Manage Durables, Manage Consumables, Manage Instruments).
 * User defined state models with pre-configured SEMI-E10 state model.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
 * Reduction of downtime and unplanned breakdowns.
 * Increased visibility and monitoring real-time capabilities.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT

The Maintenance Management module supports the creation of maintenance plans and
their associated activities. Critical Manufacturing MES ensures that maintenance
plans are followed as defined and keeps track of the maintenance history for
every equipment. As a fully integrated module, the usage counters are
automatically increased as material is processed and prevents equipment from
being used if maintenance is due. The system also checks the certifications of
maintenance technicians and updates the inventory of spare parts as they are
consumed. The Scheduling module is alerted of planned maintenance down times to
ensure that equipment is unavailable.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support time-based, usage-based and ad-hoc (on demand) maintenance
   activities.
 * Support multiple maintenance plans per resource (equipment), container, area
   or material.
 * Prevent resources, containers or materials from being used if a maintenance
   activity is after late due.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved operational equipment effectiveness.
 * Better equipment utilization and reduction of downtime.
 * Improved spare parts inventory management.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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CALIBRATION

Whether you need manual tools or automatic scales or dispensing tools, equipment
calibration should be automatic and built into the process, so that quality
remains at the forefront of the process definition. The definition and capture
of measurement instruments, ensuring that they are calibrated and that they
cover the required range and have the required precision, is paramount to the
efficiency and quality desired in a modern production process.

Critical Manufacturing MES ensures the calibration and verification of
instruments is met by seamlessly integrating this process within the regular
production process steps, with procedures in place to avoid using gauges or
instruments with expired calibration status while maintaining traceability for
the entire process.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Track and record information on expiration dates for individual tools and
   instruments.
 * Improve quality by monitoring degradation throughout the instrument
   lifecycle.
 * Integrate maintenance activities seamlessly to prevent usage of instruments
   with expired calibration status.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved operational equipment effectiveness.
 * Better equipment utilization.
 * Reduction of downtime.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet

STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL (SPC)

Statistical Process Control (SPC) is a method of applying statistical methods
and techniques in order to monitor and control a process. Using historical
process data, it’s possible to check whether a certain process is under control
and it’s possible to calculate the respective control limits, that is the Voice
of the Process (VoP).

Statistical Process Control (SPC) is a pre-integrated module that is used to
monitor the stability and quality of a certain process as well as to identify
and flag problems as early as possible. When a problem is identified, it’s
possible to trigger an action such as sending an email, putting the lot on hold,
or putting the equipment down. It’s also possible to open an exception protocol
workflow to correct the situation.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for flexible Chart context definitions so that different Charts are
   created automatically by the system for every different context combination
   (e.g.: one Chart per Resource).
 * Support for Variable Charts (Average and Range (X̅ R), Average and Standard
   Deviation (X̅ s), Median and Range (X ̃R), Individual and Moving Range
   (I-MR)) and Attribute Charts (Fraction Defective (p), Number Defective (np),
   Average number of Defects (u), Number of Defects (c)).
 * Capability of setting the specification limits directly at the Chart level or
   to inherit them automatically from the Product definition which is subject to
   change control.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Reduction of scrap, rework, and customer complaints.
 * Improved equipment utilization.
 * Reduction of costs.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet

CORRECTIVE & PREVENTIVE ACTION (CAPA)

During manufacturing operations, it’s inevitable that some problems, exceptions,
and deviations will occur. It’s important to address these problems quickly and
systematically. Some problems will fall within defined patterns and pre-defined
workflows can guide the operators on their resolution, such as SPC violations
which can be addressed by Out-of-Control Action Plans (OCAPs). Other problems
need a more thorough analysis to identity the root cause and to take actions to
address the root cause in order to prevent these problems from occurring again,
such as Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA).

The Exception Management module provides the capability to define and execute
workflows to guide the user in capturing problems and issues and responding to
them. Being an integrated module,  exceptions can be triggered automatically by
system under certain conditions (e.g.: SPC violation).

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Provision of a graphical user interface designer to create exception
   workflows.
 * Support for change control and versioning of exception workflows.
 * Capability to open exception workflows manually or automatically in case that
   SPC rules are violated or Data Collection limits are exceeded.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved quality and regulatory compliance.
 * Reduction of customer complaints.
 * Reduction of downtime.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet

NON-CONFORMANCE REPORTING & DISPOSITIONS

The Exception Management module of Critical Manufacturing MES provides the
capability to define and execute workflows to guide the user in capturing
problems and issues and responding to them. Being an integrated module,
exceptions can be triggered automatically by system under certain conditions
(e.g.: SPC violation). An exception can also be opened manually at any time in
response to a certain condition.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for material dispositions as part of an exception workflow. For
   example, if a certain problem affects several lots, it’s possible to open an
   exception workflow for the affected lots and then decide on a lot by lot
   basis, what is the action to be taken lot (e.g.: Scrap or Rework).
 * Capability to create tasks as part of an exception workflow and to track the
   progress and state of those tasks (action items) until the completion.
 * Support to capture defects at any part of the process, with seamless
   integration with Data Collection and Inspection modules.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved process repeatability and consistency.
 * Reduction of problem resolution time.
 * Reduction of customer complaints.

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet

SAMPLING BASED INSPECTION / AQL

In many cases it’s not practical to inspect or measure every single lot; and
even in an inspection or metrology step, it’s not practical to inspect or
measure every single unit of a lot.

Critical Manufacturing MES provides the capability to implement sampling
strategies by pre-defining 1) which materials must go through an inspection or
metrology step based on time or counters; and 2) which sub-materials to be
measured at an inspection or metrology step. Once the sampling strategy is
defined, the system will execute and enforce it automatically.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for static and dynamic inspection plans, including AQL.
 * Support for lot-based sampling strategies based on flexible contexts that can
   be:
   – Counter based (e.g.: every 10th lot of a certain product)
   – Time based (e.g.: one lot from a certain equipment every 8 hours)
 * Support for sub-material selection at a metrology step, for example to
   measure the top, middle and bottom wafers and in that particular sequence.
   The sub-materials to be measured can be defined manually or by a business
   rule (system or user-defined).

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved process control.
 * Reduction of costs.
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors.

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet

DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT

There are many documents which are relevant for manufacturing, including
technical sheets, drawings, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) or work
instructions. Documents need to be created, approved, published, and
distributed, and most importantly, the right documents need to be presented to
the user at the right time. When a new version is set effective, it’s important
to ensure that the new version supersedes previous one. Also, for regulatory
compliance, it may be necessary to ensure that the operators read and sign-off
on new document versions.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for document version management with access and change control.
 * Provision of a document change history.
 * Support for documents stored internally by the application or documents
   referenced in an external system (accessible via an URL).

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Reduction of paper and paperwork.
 * Reduction of scrap and rework.
 * Increased operational efficiency.

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet

ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES

A thorough process of control and auditability is vital for quality assurance
and for the enforcement of quality standards within an organization. Critical
Manufacturing MES provides user-defined approval workflows with reviewers
defined for each step, enforcing those workflows based on object and type, with
complete control over the approval process displayed in real time to any of the
stakeholders. Providing email notifications and customized pages for pending
approval verifications while maintaining change-controlled objects with approval
workflows, the complete digital process meets all your regulatory and compliance
needs while maintaining a historical record of all approvals and electronic
signatures.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased visibility of master data changes.
 * Improved regulatory compliance.
 * Increased process control.
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors.

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet

ADVANCED PLANNING & SCHEDULING

The Advanced Planning & Scheduling module generates resource processing
sequences that optimize some key performance indicators, such as equipment
utilization or order fulfillment. While dispatching provides only a local
optimization considering the current state at a Step or a Resource, Scheduling
considers multiple Steps and multiple Resources, as well as a more comprehensive
set of constraints and a bigger time horizon. If required, the system is also
capable of sequencing personnel or tools. Being a fully integrated module, it
has access to all the master data as well as the current WIP and equipment
state, and it can also ensure that the generated resource processing sequences
are followed.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for multiple optimization criteria that can be combined using
   different weights (Minimize Setup Times, Maximize Resource Utilization,
   Minimize Deviation from Delivery Dates, Minimize Total Cycle Time)
 * Support for the generation of multiple schedule scenarios.
 * Support for manual schedule adjustments.
 * Provision of multiple KPIs to assess the quality of the different schedule
   scenarios (Production Time Percentage, Setup Time Percentage, Average Cycle
   Time, Priority Client Satisfaction)

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Faster speed of learning.
 * Increased visibility, tracking and monitoring of experiments.
 * Increased operational efficiency.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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MATERIALS MANAGEMENT

Critical Manufacturing MES supports the business processes related with
requesting materials, fulfilling those requests and moving material between
locations.

The Material Logistics module specifies different material supply paths for
different storage areas and production lines. The system supports three types of
lifecycles: 1) starting with a Transfer Requirement, releasing it into a Pick
List, and then transporting it with a Transfer Order; 2) create a Transfer Order
for a Transfer Requirement; or 3) simply create a Transfer Order.

The Material Logistics module performs automatic replenishment based on user
defined reorder points and target inventory levels and also provides the
capability to take periodic inventories.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Define Material supply paths between Storage Areas and Production Lines.
 * Manage Transfer Requirements, Product and Quantity needs.
 * Approve and release (completely or partially) Transfer Requirements and
   automatically create a Pick List based on pre-defined sorting rules, both for
   material selection and picking sequencing.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved visibility and tracking of material requests.
 * Reduction of material shortages.
 * Reduction of raw materials inventory and raw materials scrap.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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COSTING

Having accurate and up-to-date manufacturing cost data provides very valuable
information.  Management can use this information to take on cost reduction
initiatives or to adjust pricing structures. Costing module of Critical
Manufacturing MES provides a mechanism to define the different cost structures,
based on time, usage, labor, and materials and then to absorb those costs in
real time.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Provides real-time absorption of material costs in real time considering
   labor, materials as well as step and resource defined cost structures.
 * Access to a Material cost history and Product cost forecast reports.
 * Provides calculation of the cost for every maintenance activity based on its
   parts and labor.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Real-time cost visibility.
 * Better cost forecasting.

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet

DASHBOARDS

Manufacturing operations generate a lot of data. Being able to present the most
important data in real time and in a visual way that is clear and easy to
understand helps the different stakeholders to understand the current situation
and quickly visualize any problem that requires attention. A Dashboard is a
highly visual mechanism to display different types of data. Dashboards are
created by combining and configuring different widgets such as reports, queries,
resource lists, charts.

The system comes off-the-shelf with the following set of widgets:

• Augmented Reality • Barcode Identification • BI Card • Browser • Button •
Column View • Component Widget • Data Series • Data Value • Date and Time • EDC
Chart • Entity  Attachments • Entity Details • Entity History • Entity Info •
Entity KPI • Entity List View • Entity Tiles • FabLIVE • Filter • Flex • Form •
Grid • Keypad • Live Data • Query • Shift • Sliding Grid • SPC Chart • Tabs
Widget • Text • Tiles Matrix • Timeline Chart • Timer • Transfer Widget • Tree
Map Chart • UI Page

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Responsive design with support for different layouts (e.g.: desktop, mobile
   phone).
 * Easy creation and configuration by power users without coding, which enables
   the creation of optimized Dashboards and GUIs for some specific operational
   scenarios.
 * Capability to define a Dashboard as the homepage for any user.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased operational efficiency.
 * Increased visibility and monitoring.

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet

REPORTING AND ANALYTICS

The Critical Manufacturing Data & Analytics Framework provides a unified,
integrated persistency, reporting and business intelligence platform that can be
used for Critical Manufacturing data and other heterogeneous data sources. The
capabilities of the Data & Analytics framework allow data to be integrated from
any SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Oracle Databases, Excel, CSV, XML, Text files,
SAP and other data sources.

KEY FEATURES

 * Three databases for different purposes (Online, optimized for runtime
   purposes; ODS for mid to long term reporting; and DWH for long term
   aggregation used for analysis and decision support system).
 * A highly scalable Extraction, Transformation and Loading platform based on
   SQL Server Integration Services for high performance data integration,
   merging and transformation of data from different sources.
 * Report Authoring and Publishing platform based on SQL Server Reporting
   Services and Microsoft.
 * Power BI for various types of reports to be created and published.
 * Data Mining algorithms that allow complex analysis of big amounts of data for
   patterns, associations and correlations.
 * An OLAP explorer for visual interactive slicing and dicing of data.
 * R-Services for statistical, machine learning and other type of sophisticated
   data analysis.

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OPERATIONAL DATA STORE & DATA WAREHOUSE

The Data Warehouse (DWH) provides a set of pre-aggregated and consolidated data
to speed-up and facilitate different type of multi-dimensional analysis. The
cubes provided by the Data Warehouse organize data (measures and indicators)
across a set of predefined dimensions such as Facility, Area, Step, and Time.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Provision of three cubes:
   – Resource
   – Data Collection
   – Production Order
 * Capability to interactive slice and dice data.
 * Provision of access to any data analysis client such as Microsoft Excel or
   Microsoft Power BI.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved data analysis capabilities
 * Faster data access

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet

ALARM MANAGEMENT

In a manufacturing environment, there are many planned tasks and unplanned
issues that require the user attention. Alarm Management provides a mechanism to
send notifications about any event at any time to a user or to a group of users.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Support for different severity levels with different presentation look and
   feel.
 * Provision of a dedicated user notification pane in the GUI.
 * Capability to send a notification by email to a distribution list.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved visibility about problems.
 * Faster response to tasks and issues.

For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

Data Sheet

FACTORY DIGITAL TWIN

Having real-time visibility of the state of the factory is quite important to
quickly react to problems. Visual dashboards can provide easy to understand
information in an intuitive way. fabLIVE allows the customer to design the real
physical layout of the plant and then to monitor the equipment with
instantaneous updates delivered using a publish/subscribe mechanism.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Graphical 3D designer with support for 3D shapes and textures.
 * Support for a shape library with import of .obj threedimensional models.
 * Interactive visualization with support for panning, zooming, and rotating in
   any of the three axes.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Increased visibility, tracking and monitoring of equipment.
 * Increased operational efficiency.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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AUGMENTED REALITY

Augmented Reality enables any task relevant information available inside MES to
be viewed over a live camera shot of the real product, process, line or facility
area. For example, a maintenance technician can check the list of pending and
upcoming maintenance orders at an equipment; or a quality engineer can check the
history of a certain lot simply by pointing their mobile device.

KEY FEATURES

 * Associate objects to different tags and to print the tags.
 * Visualize information for multiple objects at the same time.
 * View and interact with information at the same time, for example, by
   performing actions on a Resource.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Faster speed of learning.
 * Increased visibility, tracking and monitoring of experiments.
 * Increased operational efficiency.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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EQUIPMENT INTEGRATION

There are many drivers for improving the degree of automation in manufacturing
operations. Typically, there are three types of equipment in the shop floor that
can be integrated: process equipment, metrology equipment and logistics
equipment (automated material storage and retrieval equipment, transport
equipment, such as Automatic Guide Vehicles (AGVs) and Autonomous Intelligent
Vehicles (AIVs).

Connect IoT provides MES equipment integration for different type of
communication interfaces. It is a distributed equipment integration module that
can be used to connect virtually any equipment or device that provides some type
of connectivity.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:

 * Centralized configuration and administration of all integrated equipment and
   devices.
 * Version controlled Driver and Controller definitions.
 * Off-the-shelf drivers for the following type of interfaces: Bluetooth Low
   Energy, CSV Files, Databases (currently only MicrosoftTM SQL Server), MQTT,
   IPC-CFX, Fuji Nexim, OIB, OPC-DA, OPC-UA, Raw Files, SECS/GEM, Serial
   Communication (RS-232), TCP/IP Socket, USB Keyboard Wedge.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Improved operational equipment effectiveness.
 * Better equipment utilization.
 * Reduction of downtime.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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FACTORY AUTOMATION WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT

For companies that want to deploy high automation, it’s necessary to have a
system that both listens to factory events, and coordinates and orchestrates the
different systems and applications to respond to that factory event. Factory
Automation is a factory-level workflow engine to coordinate different systems
and applications in order to achieve high-automation. Factory Automation module
supports the definition of workflows and links the events to workflows. It also
supports hierarchical job structures as well as long running jobs which have
their state and context persisted in the database. Factory Automation also has
the capability to perform error handling to recover from a variety of possible
problems.

KEY FEATURES

 * Design workflows graphically.
 * Create a library of re-usable workflows.
 * Support short and long-running jobs as well as job hierarchies.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Faster speed of learning.
 * Increased visibility, tracking and monitoring of experiments.
 * Increased operational efficiency.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION (ERP, PLM, ...)

Most manufacturers use a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for product design
and development; and an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for the
high-level management of the company. It’s also common organizations have in
place other type of manufacturing relevant applications in place, such as
document management and training systems. The Enterprise Integration module
provides a robust, bi-directional asynchronous communication mechanism based on
a message queued and a queue processor.

MES provides bi-directional integration to enterprise applications to support
both rapid tactical shifts and strategic business goals. Benefits include:

 * Real-time synchronization between the ERP and the MES
 * Reduction in data entry
 * Reduction in the opportunity for errors

BENEFITS FOR YOUR OPERATIONS:

 * Faster speed of learning.
 * Increased visibility, tracking and monitoring of experiments.
 * Increased operational efficiency.


For more features and benefits, consult the Data Sheet.

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