Open Source Java Equipment Manager
We are thinking of providing this entire product suite under an Open Source license. If you are interested please contact us. There will be no strings attached - this will be genuinely Open Source and allow you to connect any number of equipments into your automation environment.
In order to do this properly we need to judge demand. Companies requiring this software are quite specialist, typically manufacturers of High Tech Electronics, MEMS devices, Semiconductors or Photovoltaic components.
A great deal of work has gone into this product and two large companies have been using the software.
We would have to put some effort in putting this into Sourceforge.net and getting some of the design documentation amended, but we beleive a company who wants to implement automation but doesn't have the automation budget but has some tallented software engineers could gain a real head start with our component.
Please contact us if you have a genuine interest. The more people that contact us the more chance we have to put this into the Open Source Community.
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Overview of Ascari's Java Equipment Manager (JEM) Technology
The Java Equipment Manager provides bi-directional tool communication with virtually any Enterprise Service Bus for example Oracle Fusion, Eyelit Base, JBoss or Mule. The Equipment Manager can also reside within any Java Application Server.
The connection technology allows connection to a wide range of toolsets that support SECS/GEM, XML, SCADA and OPC/PLCs. Other protocols including flat-files are supported with plug-ins.
Connect Manufacturing and Measurement Equipment into MES, ERP and SharePoint
Connecting production tools to higher level systems like MES and ERP is now much easier and more rapidly achieved using the configuration elements of JEM rather than writing code.
JEM Features
The Equipment Manager provides a number of features:
- A configurable generic & extendable equipment automation framework
- Standard GEM compliant processes for handling Tool Communication, Tool Status Monitoring, Tool Event Handling and Tool Alarm handling
- XML based equipment drivers built with a Tool Characterisation GUI Application
- 'Out of the box' functionality that already copes with a wide range of automated equipment scenarios
Benefits of using JEM
- Reduce the time to create SECS I, HSMS or TCP-IP/TELNET connections to Process Equipment
- A large number of operational scenarios are included in the Generic Equipment Model provided meaning configure and go
- Any custom coding required to handle very specific scenarios can be simplified by using the inherent connection, event, scenario, alarm and tool status managers
Customers can licence the Equipment Manager and undertake training to develop their own equipment interfaces or they can use Ascari's development team to undertake the entire automation project.
For a product overview sheet please contact us.
Automation Experience
Ascari have undertaken many automation projects across process areas that include Photolithography, Films, Etch, Wet Process, Diffusion and Metrology interfacing to many different tool types including Applied Materials, Novellus, Gasonics, TEL, LAM, Semitool, ASML and Schlumberger.
We have also written the control software for material transportation systems that move product automatically throughout a manufacturing process.
Key automated scenarios we have addressed include:
- Automatic Recipe Selection
- Automatic Data Collection
- Recipe Management
- Equipment Maintenance Management
- Advanced Process Control (APC)
- Material Movement and Transport
Based on this experience and embedding best practice into the Java Equipment Manager we are confident that your automation projects will be realised much quicker using this leading edge technology.