Every day, production control teams make hundreds of decisions that directly determine whether the fab hits its targets or falls short.

⇢ When to start WIP

⇢ How to respond to a tool going down

⇢ How to balance competing priorities when capacity is tight

⇢ How to ensure bottleneck tools don’t get starved

⇢ How to manage queue timers

⇢ How to balance moves across layers on re-entrant tools

⇢ Whether to batch aggressively or protect cycle time

⇢ And many more…

These cross-fab and multi-step decisions sit between dispatching and planning. No MES handles them. No scheduler touches them. They live in the heads of experienced engineers - and the response depends on who is on shift.

This is not a people problem. It is a systems gap. And the cost is measurable: inconsistent performance across shifts, reactive firefighting, cycle time variability that is hard to explain, and OTD misses that trace back to decisions made hours earlier.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss:

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Why this gap has persisted, what it costs, and what changes when a system can finally make these decisions - across the whole fab, in real time, every cycle.

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What you’ll learn:

⇢ How production control decisions - WIP flow control, maintenance response, start timing, batching trade-offs - are being automated across the fab, not just at individual tools

⇢ Why automating these decisions delivers more consistent performance across shifts and reduces the firefighting that dominates most production control teams’ days

⇢ Real results from a production fab - including cycle time reduction of over 10% and throughput improvement - and what this approach enables beyond scheduling

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Who it’s for:

This webinar is built for the people who own - or feel the consequences of - production control decisions every day:

• Production Control Managers: see how the decisions you currently make under pressure can be made systematically and consistently across every shift
• Manufacturing Directors: see how automating these decisions reduces manual overrides and stabilises wafer-out performance shift to shift
• Fab Directors: see the operational impact this approach has on cycle time, throughput, and OTD - and what it enables next

Whether your fab runs rule-based dispatching or an advanced scheduler, these are the decisions that sit above both - and this webinar is about automating them.