The Symphony EPM (Equipment Productivity Manager) is a suite of hardware and software products that can transform your manufacturing equipment into shared resources with concurrent access for multiple applications and users, rigorous security, and automated data collection and analysis - much like Microsoft Office™ replaced typewriters and calculators with one computer containing a suite of powerful applications.

The open architecture of Symphony's web-based solutions allows process, maintenance, and customer support engineers to

• Collect all needed data, any time as defined by users
• Analyze trends, real time or historic
• Track true states of the equipment
• Correlate events with tool status
• Access tools remotely, via the web/intranet
• Facilitate real-time collaboration with partners

Symphony EPM provides its users a huge advantage in this highly competitive industry by enabling them to dramatically improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), monitor and control equipment remotely, and poise their operations for e-diagnostics and APC. The following features make Symphony EPM most effective for a variety of users: 

• Scalablity - EPM installed on one tool can be rapidly expanded into a fab-wide solution

• Concurrent multiple tool and sensor connectivity through the Symphony Equipment Server (SES)

• Remote access to data through the InfoPlus.21™ real-time and historian database

• e-Diagnostics and APC platform

• Reliability and performance 

• Symphony Equipment Server™ (SES) is a network-optimized software module  that provides all the services necessary to integrate equipment into communication networks. The SES enables concurrent access and sharing of equipment data via an object interface. The SES opens the equipment to customized applications and allows the implementation of "Best of Breed" software.

• Data Collection Manager™ (DCM) provides a fully automated data collection solution. It lets a user specify what data to collect from the equipment through the SES connection, and it configures and populates the InfoPlus.21 database.

• InfoPlus.21™ Provides real-time and historic data warehousing for the high-speed capture of large volumes of parametric data.

• Process Explorer™ displays parametric data, events, and alarms allowing users to monitor equipment parameters in real time. Process Explorer provides fast, clear navigation methods and a variety of views into the data.