Product - MES

fabLIVE

Reduce equipment downtime, increase throughput and improve OEE

Real-time enterprise-wide visualization and monitoring is crucial for high tech industries. fabLIVE is a real-time virtual window to the production line with interactive performance monitoring.

Although the benefits of MES to productivity and yield are well-documented, some manufacturers face financial or human resource constraints to implementing a complete solution. For those manufacturers, fabLIVE is a high value tool that provides:

Need monitoring capability or a subset of MES functionality
A gateway or phased approach to implementing full MES
Supplemental capabilities to a legacy MES that lacks graphic visualizations and line-at-a-glance capability

fabLIVE is based on scalable hardware infrastructure with fault-tolerance and network load balancing mechanisms that have been tested for very high volume critical systems. fabLIVE works in stand-alone mode, integrated with an existing MES or in combination with Critical Manufacturing MES.

Users can increase the value of fabLIVE further with specialized attributes, including:

Standard configurations

Industry standard OEE models, including SEMI E10, SEMI E30, SEMI E58 (beyond the fully configurable state model via a fabLIVE integrated GUI)
Ready to use OEE improvement reports like site / area / equipment OEE View or Alarm Analysis Report

Master Data Integration module

Allows integration with MES Master Data to provide integrated views for Report Analysis
Real-time display of equipment WIP information (material or container being processed)

Automatic equipment data collection

Equipment is characterized in terms of x, y, z coordinates, width and height on the imported picture
The states to be monitored are associated to different colors (ex. green=productive, red=down, yellow=waiting)
Equipment is then further grouped in to equipment groups
Reports, charts or material list widgets are then associated to a tool, area or facility
Factory layout can be based on an existing layout file - upload the layout and sketch over the equipment and areas

fabLIVE Runtime Viewer

Visualize the real-time state of a factory, facility, area, group of equipment or single tool in a blueprint with status and other information (e.g. time on state)
Drill-down from a higher level representation of facilities or areas to individual equipment levels, including zooming with Critical Manufacturing MES graphical animation capabilities
Detail level monitoring can show one piece of equipment, with its available elements. Within the equipment, additional functionality makes information like historical data and materials tracking viewable