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.
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
