CoreTegral - Functionality
The CoreTegral approach is to keep the product as lightweight as possible, utilising templates to increase productivity in creating site-specific solutions, without trying to second-guess all required functionality and scenarios in advance.
Experience has shown that a ‘middle-ground’ template driven approach is more effective than either a toolkit approach or a pre-built monolithic solution approach. Re-invention of the wheel has been avoided as much as possible, and the standard Microsoft development environment and mainstream interface driven coding practice has been adopted.
It has been built from the ground up using C# within the .Net environment, but embodies many of the most successful algorithms, lessons and concepts encountered by the developers in the creation of bespoke factory automation solutions and products over the last 20 years.
CoreTegral has at its centre a base product that is an automation framework. This can be used in any manufacturing environment where there are complex tools involved. Built upon the core is tailored semiconductor functionality which specifically focuses upon the demands of integrating to tools with SECS interfaces and with the most common MES and other fab-level systems. Savantech also offer optional components within this layer - such as Recipe Management, Lot Identification and Automated Material Handling System integration - and which can be purchased to add new and higher level functionality as and when a company need them.
Finally, there is still be a requirement for specific logic services to tailor the product to the individual needs of an specific customer location. This final layer, the "application layer", is where CoreTegral users have free reign to customise and map solutions that fit their exact requirements. CoreTegral ships with working example template solution code, a web-based status UI and access to SQL Reporting services that facilitate full visibility into the heart of the automation solution.
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