Automation

Ascari are specialists in factory automation and have delivered a wide range of automation solutions.  Our automation team's expertise can be used within your own projects and their experience covers areas such as:

• Interfacing Automated Material Handling Systems to Manufacturing Execution Systems
  
• Interfacing SAP R/3 to Lower Order Systems like Manufacturing Execution and Shop Floor Data Acquisition
  
• Development and subsequent roll-out of equipment managers for a wide variety of SECS/GEM controlled processing tools including Wet Benches, Furnaces, Implanters, Dry Etch and Metrology Tools
  
• Development of equipment managers for a wide variety of XML controlled processing tools including lead-frame marking, plasma cleaning, gel dispensing, lid assembly, trim and form and tape and reel devices
  
• Automated batch processing scenarios (e.g. furnaces and wet benches)
  
• SECS/GEM and XML Interfaces to production tools and other systems
  
• Design of automation software topologies
  
• Tool communication, tool status monitoring, tool event handling and tool alarm handling
  
• Tool characterisation
  
• Development of a configurable Equipment Manager framework that provides bi-directional tool communication into virtually any Enterprise Service Bus for example Oracle Fusion, JBoss, Mule or other architecture
  
• Design and implementation of serial and Ethernet communications protocols for Mitsubishi PLC’s; interfacing into MES systems
  
• The development of PLC based cell controllers
  
• Integration of Bosch and ABB robots into a flexible manufacturing system
  
• Development of an Advanced Process Control (APC) Feed forward control systems

Specific Automation and Integration Development Skills

• STATIONworks, CELLworks, FASTsim
  
• FACTORYworks Business Rules
  
• PROMIS TP and RTI
  
• Ascari Java Equipment Manager
  
• Eyelit FACTORYconnect / Work Flow Manager
  
• Tool integration into Oracle Enterprise Service Bus and other SOA Bus Technologies
  
• SAP ABAP/4 and BAPI
  
• SECS/GEM and XML Protocols
  
• OPC and PLC Data Aquisition and Integration
  
• Production Tool Characterisation

Ascari are active participants in the SEMI-PV Tool Standards Group.  This group is working to make interfacing the tools required by Photovoltaic manufacturers easier to connect into factory control systems like MES.

If you need a trusted partner experienced in factory automation please call us now to discuss ways in which Ascari can share our expertise with your project teams.