The platform provides full shop floor visibility for logistic optimization leading to shorter cycle times and lower WIP. Dispatch lists can now easily be followed by operators, because every lot can be found immediately. As a result, compliance to dispatch priorities is achieved.

Increased operator efficiency is achieved by avoiding lot searching activities due to exact lot positions in the fab at any time. Furthermore, all relevant and correct information (such as next destination, lot priority) is available at the point of action, reducing operator efforts to gather information from different IT-systems.

LotTrack is the shop floor enabling part of paperless manufacturing. Paper based run cards are substituted by the DisTag’s large display. Using this display, the operator is assisted at any time: operation and transport information (e.g. lot number and states, next scheduled operation, next destination) are available at each individual lot in real time, regardless of the actual lot location.