INFICON Factory Scheduler is built on over 20 years of manufacturing and operations experience building optimied and robust WIP schedulers for all areas of the factory. The Factory Scheduler utilizes Advanced Heuristics, Linear Programming, Optimization and Intelligent Search Algorithms to generate a real-time optimized schedule that can be easily tuned to meet your manufacturing needs.
For small factories, a single Area Scheduler can be powerful enough to schedule all the WIP in the facility. For most high volume factories, INFICON will install a group of several Area Schedulers working together. Area Schedulers feature modular logic to accommodate the specific complexities of the area being scheduled - lithography, diffusion, implant, test, dicing, etc. They also communicate with each other to optimize global priorities.