Real Time Dispatching - a catalyst to Assembly Test manufacturing execution automation

Intel's Assembly Test (AT) factories have long relied on legacy applications for lot kitting out of inventory locations. The accuracy, usability and product enhancement cycle times of these applications were constrained by data latency, inflexibility in business rule implementation and maintenance. To address these issues we successfully leveraged the Real Time Dispatching (RTD) application framework to provide a variety of kitting capabilities. We describe these projects and the new capabilities enabled through the use of the RTD framework in this paper.