Enabling lights-out factory automation — sense, decide, and respond to factory events in real time
Applied SmartFactory Activity Manager is a visual development environment for handling factory events. It increases plant utilization and efficiency by sensing, deciding, and responding to factory events in real time. SmartFactory Activity Manager results in better management and control of resources, equipment, software applications, and personnel.
Applied SmartFactory Activity Manager handles exceptions in a consistent manner by keeping production running with minimum human interaction. Benefits include 85% white space reduction, 95% enablement of full automation moves, and a 60%–70% reduction in expert operators.
SmartFactory Activity Manager streamlines operations by sensing, deciding, and responding to factory events in real time.
These benefits support lights-out factory automation.
SmartFactory Activity Manager integrates with a wide variety of MES applications, with material control systems, and with the APF RTD® repository to start job applications based on state changes or events.
Yes. SmartFactory Activity Manager enables external systems to publish events or start execution jobs.
SmartFactory Activity Manager optimizes business processes by assigning plant resources based on capabilities and capacity.
Yes. SmartFactory Activity Manager monitors the sequence and time in which tasks are performed.
SmartFactory Activity Manager senses, decides, and responds to factory events in real time, keeping production running with minimum human interaction.
