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Cimetrix Blog Series Round-up

Posted by Kimberly Daich; Director of Marketing on Aug 8, 2019 12:08:59 PM

For the last couple of years, we have published a number of beneficial series in this forum to help contribute to the understanding of many of the standards in the manufacturing industry. In case you missed some of them, we are going to re-cap and link to the most popular today.

GEM Features and Benefits

This series features 15 separate posts with videos and information on some of the most important aspects of the GEM (SECS/GEM) standard. This series is one of our most popular ever and was written by a number of the Cimetrix engineering team who have studied and practiced GEM for many years.

EDA Application and Benefits in Smart Manufacturing

With the adoption of the latest SEMI EDA (Equipment Data Acquisition, also known as Interface A) standards accelerating significantly over the past 2 years, we felt it was time to highlight the applications across the industry that make the best use of these standards, and the specific manufacturing benefits that result. 

Models in Smart Manufacturing

In this series, we highlighted the importance of explicit and standardized models in the context of equipment communications interfaces and some of the “smart” factory applications they support. 

EDA Testing

Since the EDA/Interface A adoption process has now clearly reached critical mass, we must seriously address the question “How are we going to test the equipment and systems that incorporate these standards?” This is an excellent question, and one that has a multi-part answer, which is addressed in this 6-part series.

These, and many others including a the Cimetrix Book Club and Meet-the-Team series are some of what you can find on our blog. Be sure to subscribe today!

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Topics: Industry Highlights, Doing Business with Cimetrix, SECS/GEM Features & Benefits Series, EDA in Smart Manufacturing Series, EDA Testing Series, Meet Our Team, Book Club

Overview of the GEM Standard: Video Series Part Four of Five

Posted by Kimberly Daich; Director of Marketing on Feb 26, 2019 11:32:00 AM

The fourth part of our Overview of the GEM Standard Video series is here! New call-to-action

In this video, Brian Rubow gives a description and dives a little deeper on some of the most important GEM features including the following:

  • Self-Description
  • Alarms
  • Remote Control
  • Equipment Constants
  • Recipe Management
  • Material Movement
  • Terminal Services
  • Clock
  • Spooling

View the entire series today!

Topics: Industry Highlights, SECS/GEM, SECS/GEM Features & Benefits Series

Overview of the GEM Standard: Video Series Part Three of Five

Posted by Kimberly Daich; Director of Marketing on Jan 3, 2019 11:22:00 AM

Join Brian Rubow for the third video in our five-part video series which covers another of the core features of GEM.

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One of the core features for monitoring equipment is the GEM Collection Event Notification. Every equipment will publish a set of collection events. These report in real-time when things are happening at the equipment level that a factory may want to monitor. The equipment will document a set of events that are aviable at the factory level, and the host can choose which ones they want to subscribe to.

View the entire series today!

Topics: Industry Highlights, SECS/GEM, SECS/GEM Features & Benefits Series