SmartFactory Material Control

Expect superior uptime performance

What is the cost if your fab goes down for an hour—or even 10 minutes?

Interruptions in a fab caused by Manufacturing Control System (MCS) reliability concerns can cost millions of dollars in lost revenue. Known for its superior uptime, SmartFactory Material Control is a real-time material control system that coordinates the transportation and storage of wafers, reticles, and LCD panels. With over 250 deployments worldwide, Material Control (CLASS MCS 5) is the market leading MCS solution in both semiconductor and display manufacturing, offering increased automation efficiency and improved inventory control.
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Why choose SmartFactory Material Control?

Proven 99.99% production uptime

AMHS and MES vendor independent

Lower internal cost of ownership

What can you gain from our approach?

Tight integration

  • Integrate with any AMHS solution or multiple AMHS providers without interruption
  • Use external interfaces to communicate with standard and customer MES solutions on various platforms
  • Extend the system’s rich feature set with your own factory customizations using the MCS Development Kit

High availability

  • Ensure that critical components are always operational through accelerated failover functionality
  • Add or configure AMHS equipment without software changes or downtime
  • Independently install, update, and remove components while the system is running

Better productivity

  • Ensure the best path is selected for a lot to reach its destination with advanced scheduling algorithms
  • Reduce AMHS device transport times and overall AMHS footprint in the fab
  • Quickly get to the root cause of delivery issues with a rich database of integrated logs