Factory Automation#

For companies that want to deploy high automation, it’s necessary a system that, on one hand listen to factory events, and on another hand direct, coordinate and orchestrate different systems and applications as a response to that factory event. For example, once an equipment finishes the processing of a certain lot, an event will be published and a workflow needs to be triggered in order to correct handle that event from a factory perspective. For the same example, that may involve asking the MES where to send the lot that has just completed and what is the next lot to be sent to the equipment, and then to calculate the destination and coordinate the transport of the lots to that location by orchestrating the appropriate automatic transport systems. The system accommodates full automatic scenarios together with mixed and manual ones. Over time, as the processes of the factory become more stable and mature, it’s possible to progressively increase the level of automation of the factory by automating more business workflows.

The system supports the definition of workflows and the linkage of events to workflows, it supports hierarchical job structures as well as long running jobs which have their state and context persisted in the database. A key aspect of factory automation is the capability to perform error handling to recover from a variety of possible problem.

Available guides#

Table: Factory Automation guides