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Attaching Multiple Carriers to a Material#

This tutorial describes how to attach a second carrier to a Material that already has a carrier attached. The SemiFG.01 has two carriers attached simultaneously:

  • The first carrier was attached at the SemiFGLotCreation Step.
  • The second carrier will be attached at the Lamination Step.

Diagram showing the flows for FGood, SemiFG, SemiFGCarriers, and Frames, and how the system adds carriers to, and removes them from, the SemiFG material as it moves through the flow.

Preconditions#

  • The SemiFG.01 Material already has a carrier attached, assigned at the SemiFGLotCreation Step.
  • The SemiFG.01 Material has reached the Lamination Step.
  • A Material Carrier Context entry defines an Add Operation for Frames at the Lamination Step.
  • The source step of the Frames carrier is FramesStorage.

  • The Assignment Mode is Sub Material.

    Screenshot showing the Material Carrier Context entry that requires a Frame at the Lamination step.

  • At the Lamination step, the Carrier Material Verification Mode is set to At Move Next. If the operator does not attach a Frame to SemiFG.01, the system prevents the Move Next action and displays an error indicating the required carrier is missing.

Sequence of Steps#

1. Open the Lamination Step.#

Login to MES and proceed as follows:

  1. On the left side menu, select Business Data.
  2. On the Business Data panel, select Step.
  3. In the search box, type Lamination.
  4. Select the corresponding Step from the search results.

2. Open the Manage Carrier Materials wizard#

Open the Manage Carrier Materials wizard for the SemiFG.01 Material at the Lamination Step.

  1. On the top ribbon, select the Step View tab.
  2. On the Materials table, select the SemiFG.01 checkbox.
  3. On the top ribbon, select More.
  4. On the dropdown menu, select Manage from the Carrier Materials section.

3. Assign the second carrier to each sub-material.#

  1. Select a sub-material from the list.
  2. In the Carrier Material field, assign a carrier from the list. For example, Frames-01.

  3. Select the Save button to save the assignment.

    Screenshot showing the Manage Carrier Materials dialog with a Frame assigned to each sub-material.

Result#

After you attach the frame carriers to the SemiFG.01 material, SemiFG has two carriers attached at the same time:

  • The original SemiFGCarrier, attached at the SemiFGLotCreation step.
  • The new Frame carrier, attached at the Lamination step.

SemiFG.01 material can now proceed.

Screenshot showing the Carriers tab listing both the SemiFG Carrier and the Frame attached to each sub-material.

Once attached, the state of the carriers changes to Durable. Note that you cannot assign the same carrier to another sub-material. To assign the same carrier to more than one material, you must set the Allow Shared Carriers flag to true in the MaterialCarrierContext table.

Screenshot showing the FramesStorage step with the attached carriers in the Durable state.

After you validate that the Material carries both Carriers simultaneously, you can continue to the next scenario, which removes one of the two attached carriers while the other stays attached.

Next scenario: Removing a Carrier