document.write("\n<P><IMG height=249 hspace=10 src=\"http:\/\/www.cimac-us.com\/images\/solar.jpg\" width=250 align=right vspace=10>CIMAC has served the semiconductor, solar PV, MEMS, nanotechnology, and LCD flat panel manufacturing industries for over 10 years. CIMAC supports our customer’s factory automation needs through our corps of experienced equipment automation engineers, PLC control engineers, senior factory automation consultants, and off-shore software engineering center.<\/P>\n<P>From Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), factory host (EI & EM), and equipment communications and applications development, CIMAC is uniquely positioned to support your high-tech manufacturing automation needs. Our manufacturing IT team can help design, develop and deploy methodologies and applications to support your everyday manufacturing requirements.<\/P>\n<P>In today’s Solar manufacturing environment, most factory tools have in-line material handling systems which require each tool to send data to next (N+1) processing tools. Many Solar equipment manufacturers use PLC\/PAC controllers to handle data transfers to MES. Solar customers come to CIMAC for our expertise in managing PLC or SECS communication data and reporting the data to MES with our applications. We provide valuable insight for your factory automation decisions. <\/P>\n<P>The following overview are areas where we believe we can bring value to Customer; <B>Factory automation consulting, software engineering services, and factory automation software products.<\/B><\/P>\n<P><B>Factory Automation Consulting:<\/B> The following are key early activities that lay the ground work for a successful Factory Automation, MES deployment project. CIMAC can provide senior expertise that is knowledgeable with industry best practices.<\/P>\n<UL>\n<LI>Requirements gathering and documentation, from user to Executive level, insuring the MES or automation supplier has an unambiguous statement of work and a thorough Request for Quote (RFQ) can be issued. \n<LI>An Automation roadmap should be developed and documented to provide a clear vision of Customer’s overall automation strategy. This roadmap will help management plan and monitor a phased approach for MES or Automation implementation. \n<LI>Quality Assurance plan and test specifications should be in place to ensure requirement fulfillment from RFQ through final acceptance. \n<LI>Product selection; the advantages of having domain expertise from project outset include understanding in detail how requirements are translated into delivery and unbiased product evaluation. CIMAC’s senior Factory Systems consultants have experience evaluating most MES suppliers. <\/LI><\/UL>\n<H3>Software Engineering Services:<\/H3>\n<UL>\n<LI>CIMAC can provide MES Integration engineers to support MES implementation which frees critical engineering resources to focus on production and technical issues – Customer will be required to assign staff to support all phases of MES implementation. \n<LI>CIMAC Equipment Integration engineers can provide a focused skill set to eliminate delays and rework. \n<LI>CIMAC can provide experienced resources to develop or integrate other products such as SPC, APC, RMS, substrate tracking, substrate id (barcode, RFI, etc.), etc. \n<LI>Provide third party testing resources to meet QA planning objectives. <\/LI><\/UL>\n<H3>Factory Automation Software Products: <\/H3>\n<P>CIMAC has a variety of products that would support Customer’s Factory Automation requirements and easily integrate with the selected MES. <\/P>\n<UL>\n<LI><B>CIMAClink<\/B> – Factory host application that communicates to capital equipment \n<LI><B>RMS<\/B> – Factory recipe management & security Software \n<LI><B>EDALink<\/B> – Factory equipment data collection software \n<LI><B>MACSiM\/FabVi<\/B> – Factory automation performance test applications including equipment emulators and material handling simulation software <\/LI><\/UL>");