SYSTEMA MCS is a comprehensive material control system for managing, executing, and monitoring complex transports in automated material handling systems and logistics of complex manufacturing industries and warehousing. Designed to work with Automated Material Handling Systems (AMHS), MCS provides vendor-independent automation to enhance production efficiency.
Whether you're integrating an AMHS for the first time or expanding an existing system, SYSTEMA MCS seamlessly orchestrates complex transport orders across multiple, heterogeneous systems. Its vendor-independent automation maximizes efficiency, reduces costs, and ensures reliable operations. MCS leverages a proven event-driven architecture to deliver enhanced scalability, flexibility, and integration with existing systems, such as the SYSTEMA EI Suite. With specialized features, SYSTEMA MCS especially addresses the requirements of semiconductor manufacturing.
Benefits
Reliable Transport Orchestration
Achieve seamless and dependable orchestration of automated transport order across the entire logistics network, ensuring operational continuity and minimizing disruptions.
Optimized Production Flow
Enhance throughput by leveraging transport order states within SYSTEMA APS, aligning scheduling decisions with optimized routing and real-time transport network conditions.
Transport Order Transparency & Operational Stability
Gain complete, real-time visibility into transport orders with SYSTEMA's event-driven architecture, enabling instant adaptation to changing system conditions and efficient anomaly handling.
Scalability
Easily adapt to your system’s evolving needs, including network changes or extensions, ensuring seamless growth and flexibility in your transport and logistics operations.
MCS Capabilities for Optimizing Logistics & Transport
SYSTEMA MCS offers a range of capabilities designed to meet the diverse needs of manufacturers in complex production environments, from semiconductor fabs to other high-tech and high-precision industries.
Vendor-Independent Integration
Seamlessly connect to various equipment systems and AMHSs using standardized APIs, ensuring smooth communication and control across platforms, regardless of the vendor. Easy and fast integration into existing systems, supported by standardized SYSTEMA product interfaces, ensures a high ROI.
Advanced Routing Optimization
Determine the most efficient route from source to destination by leveraging dynamic algorithms to optimize transport routes based on current traffic and load conditions, minimizing delays and enhancing efficiency.
Customizable Transport Logic
Easily configure transport rules and priorities to match your fab's unique requirements, ensuring optimal material flow and resource utilization.
Real-Time Monitoring & Anomaly Detection
Monitor the status of transport jobs and system performance in real-time. Automatically detect and respond to anomalies to minimize disruptions.
Specialized Features for Semiconductor Manufacturing
Orchestrate the complex transports of lots, carriers, and reticles in semiconductor fabs between storage and process equipment. It offers functions to validate and reserve materials for transport to their next or final destination, while ensuring accurate and timely updates to material locations within the system. The system complies with the standards for semiconductor AMHS.
Integration with SYSTEMA Fab Simulation
Integrate with SYSTEMA Fab Simulation to enhance production planning and proactively test MCS configurations. Optimize system performance by identifying the best setup to minimize bottlenecks and maximize throughput.
Supported Transport & Storage Systems
MCS supports transport and storage systems such as:
- Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS)
- Stockers with storage and retrieval machines
- Rail-Guided Vehicles (RGVs)
- Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV)
- Overhead Transport (OHT)
- Autonomous Intelligent Vehicles (AIV)
- Material Air Locks
- Lift systems
- Automated palletizing systems
- High automation systems and devices
SYSTEMA MCS GUI
The SYSTEMA MCS GUI provides a user-friendly interface for real-time monitoring and management of all transport activities. With targeted KPIs and detailed visualizations, you can easily track material movements, identify issues, and optimize performance.
Key features include real-time transport job tracking, KPI reporting, and anomaly detection, giving you the tools to maintain high operational standards and quickly respond to any disruptions.
Key features include real-time transport job tracking, KPI reporting, and anomaly detection, giving you the tools to maintain high operational standards and quickly respond to any disruptions.
Licensing
SYSTEMA MCS is available as a licensed, on-premise solution, tailored to fit your company's automation requirements. Our flexible licensing options, combined with comprehensive support and training, ensure seamless integration and long-term success as your production environment evolves.
Why SYSTEMA?
With over 30 years of experience, SYSTEMA supports manufacturers in high-technology industries in achieving end-to-end automation with a focus on the semiconductor industry. Our solutions meet the unique demands of the industry, providing the tools and expertise needed to stay competitive in a fast-paced market.
With SYSTEMA, you gain a trusted partner who understands the complexities of your operations and delivers the right solutions to optimize your production process. Reach out today to learn how SYSTEMA can support your operational success.