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Most California cities try
to keep manufacturers as part of their tax
base
through various incentives designed to help
them remain profitable.
The Santa
Clara Chamber boasts a company that, in
effect, does the same thing, only in this
case, the 13,000 employees of Applied
Materials make the technology that helps
companies increase manufacturing
productivity. This lowering of production
costs is how solar and LED applications will
become affordable. As these less costly
renewable and energy efficient
technologies enter into the mainstream of
our economy, so does the savings to
Californians in both energy costs and
emissions reduction which help to grow the
economy and our tax base too. This is the
innovation that has made California a leader
in the past, now and in the future.
Applied Materials' New Turnkey MES Solution
Introduces Advanced Automation for Solar,
LED and Chip Packaging Factories
Applied Materials, Inc., recently launched
its
Applied SmartFactory™ MES*
software - an affordable, out-of-the-box,
factory automation solution to track and
streamline the flow of materials throughout
a manufacturing facility. Designed to help
accelerate the production ramp of emerging
technologies in the solar, LED* and chip
packaging industries, SmartFactory can be
deployed in less than 60 days to improve
product quality, boost productivity and cut
operational costs. SmartFactory is also the
first MES available with integrated advanced
process control (APC) capability, enabling
customers to achieve higher and more
consistent factory output.
"The SmartFactory
system is designed to help factory
operations in rapidly-growing industries
achieve the high yields and economies of
scale that can lower manufacturing cost -
key to the widespread adoption of these
important new technologies," said Charlie
Pappis, vice president and general manager
of Applied Global Services. "With the
SmartFactory system, customers can realize
the benefits of Applied's proven
manufacturing automation technology with a
ready-to-use solution that can be expanded
as their businesses and industries grow
without disrupting ongoing production."
Based on Applied's leading
FAB300® MES technology, the
SmartFactory system features pre-built,
technology-specific scenarios to monitor
every machine and all work-in-progress
material movements, manage production
sequencing, create an audit trail, and
deliver instructions to shop floor workers
via a consistent, task-focused graphical
user interface. The SmartFactory system's
optional APC module uses
Applied E3™ technology to
interface directly with production
equipment, enabling real-time, run-to-run
(R2R) process tuning and fault detection and
classification (FDC) to increase process
capability and reduce unplanned down time.
Applied's common framework approach allows
the SmartFactory system to be expanded with
plug-in components from Applied's leading
portfolio of factory automation software,
proven in over 500 manufacturing facilities
worldwide. Statistical process control,
equipment performance tracking, advanced
dispatching and RFID* wireless management
capabilities can be rapidly added to further
raise manufacturing efficiency. For more
information, visit:
http://www.appliedmaterials.com/products/smartfactory_2.html
Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT) is the
global leader in Nanomanufacturing
Technology™ solutions with a broad portfolio
of innovative equipment, service and
software products for the fabrication of
semiconductor chips, flat panel displays,
solar photovoltaic cells, flexible
electronics and energy efficient glass.
* MES = manufacturing execution system;
LED = light-emitting diode; RFID =
radio-frequency identification
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