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Rúben Pereira

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Rúben Pereira is a Product Manager for Industrial Segments at Critical Manufacturing, helping industries take full advantage of the MES while driving continuous improvements to best fit the system to each industry's specific needs. With over 20 years of experience in MES architecture and implementation, he has deep expertise in industry requirements and how to effectively address them.

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Batching orders for Ovens, Furnaces and Sterilization chambers 
Semiconductor manufacturing April 24, 2025
Advanced Scenarios in Semiconductor: Batching orders for Ovens, Furnaces and Sterilization chambers 

Across many industries, equipment like furnaces, ovens or autoclaves, can have a long process time. To balance the production cycle time and optimize the heat usage, these machines need to be big, with a large capacity.  It is obvious for manufacturing operations that these equipment should be filled to the top – nobody wants to … Continued

The Multi-Chamber dispatching problem in semiconductor
Semiconductor manufacturing February 6, 2025
The Multi-Chamber dispatching problem

One of the challenges of multi-chamber scenarios for MES, is managing WIP according with the availability of the main machine, together with the availability of the required inner process chamber modules.