MES for Industry 4.0

fabLIVE Factory Digital Twin

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 into 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:

  • Real-time 3D plant/line monitoring, or a subset of MES functionality
  • A gateway or phased approach to implementing full MES
  • Supplemental enhancements to a legacy MES that lacks graphic visualizations and line-at-a-glance capabilities

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.

fabLIVE Digital Twin (1)

FABLIVE DIGITAL TWIN (1)
View image

fabLIVE Digital Twin (2)

FABLIVE DIGITAL TWIN (2)
View image

fabLIVE Digital Twin (3)

FABLIVE DIGITAL TWIN (3)
View image

fabLIVE Digital Twin (4)

FABLIVE DIGITAL TWIN (4)
View image

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

  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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