When a typing mistake can result in thousands of dollars in lost revenue, it's important to have a proven robust software to monitor factory functions. AutoShell software tools provide a framework for factory automation, enabling operator, factory equipment, and databases to communicate with each other accurately, reliably, and quickly. AutoShell’s reusable set of software modules handle all the details of communicating with factory resources, translating the native languages of the equipment and operator into an easily mediated language.

AutoShell allows you to: 

• create interfaces to SECS/GEM and Ascii-based tools using a graphical interface.

• create complex control applications that interface to tools and external resources with a standard high-level API.

• develop operator interfaces or link in operator interfaces developed with other tools.

• port automation applications easily between different platforms.

Available with or without ACT engineering services, AutoShell enables consumers of factory information to react quickly and decisively to impending problems. AutoShell verifies that operators

•  process materials in the correct sequence.

•  notice errors before wafers are irreversibly damaged.

•  provide parameters for their machines.

For specific tool case studies, contact us.