Process development execution system

PDES integrate people (with different backgrounds from potentially different legal entities), data (from diverse sources), information, knowledge and business processes.

In contrast to PLM systems, PDES typically address the collaboration and innovation challenges with a bottom-up approach.

PDESs offer a wider set of functionalities e.g. virtual manufacturing techniques, while they are typically not integrated with the equipment in the laboratory.

PDESs have many parts and can be deployed on various scales – from simple Work in Progress tracking, to a complex solution integrated throughout an enterprise development infrastructure.

These functionalities are applied to all result data, such as materials, process steps, machines, experiments, documents and pictures.

The PDES also provides a way to relate entities belonging to the same or similar context and to explore the resulting information.

Knowledge (for example in the semiconductor device fabrication – clean before deposition; After polymer spin-on no temperature higher than 100 °C until resist is removed) is provided in a format that can be interpreted by a computer as rules.

For a PDES, this means it has to be able to The processing rule check gives no indication about the functionality or even the structure of the produced good or device.

This can be done by simply printing out a runcard for the operator or by interfacing to the Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) of the facility.

Paired with flexible text, and graphical retrieval and search methods, a PDES provides the mechanism to view and assess the accumulated data, information and knowledge from different perspectives.