MES for Industry 4.0
Factory Automation
High-tech manufacturers are placing high importance on resiliency and responsiveness to guard against potential disruption and reduce dependency on human labor. Many are pursuing high automation as a competitive advantage, with the ultimate goal of achieving ‘lights out’ integrated smart factories.
Factory Automation module of Critical Manufacturing MES is a factory level workflow engine to coordinate different systems and applications to achieve high automation.
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Automatically Monitor and Respond to Factory Events
Take your automation capabilities beyond the line or equipment level to the Factory Level. Critical Manufacturing Factory Automation supports high automation by monitoring all your factory events and orchestrating the right response from different systems and applications.
Trigger the right response | Progressively increase automation | Recover from Errors | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Factory Automation allows specific workflows to be triggered to correctly handle events such as calculating and coordinating the next equipment step or destination of in-process or completed lots and guiding the appropriate automated transport system, such as an Autonomous Intelligent Vehicle (AIV).
| The Factory Automation module accommodates fully automated, mixed and manual scenarios and helps factories to increase knowledge, adapt and increase their levels of automation over time, as processes mature.
| Factory Automation supports the definition of workflows and links them to events, also supporting hierarchical job structures including long and short running jobs. A key advantage is the ability to perform error handling to recover from a variety of possible problems in the factory.
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GAIN THE BENEFITS OF FACTORY AUTOMATION
Increase Operational efficiency | Improve equipment utilization | Increase production rates and productivity | Increase production flexibility |
Reduce labor costs | Improve product quality | Improve workplace safety | Shorten cycle times |