FPSBASE.NMV_P_LOCATIONS

FACILITY

Facility is included in almost every join in the DWH so this represents a definitive split. A route must have all steps on tools in the same facility. A tool must process all lots in the same facility. If your site has multiple buildings where lots run on routes using tools in multiple buildings then everything should be one facility. For example, multiple Fab buildings. But if your site has independent facilities like Fab and Test and Assembly where lot may progress from one to the next but on different routes then these should be different facilities. Since this column is in virtually every table it is critical that the value here is exactly matches what is in the MES if the MES has facility. Use facility_display for the display friendly name displayed in applications. See site_name comment for client/site/facility example. (* inherited from FPSINPUT.GEN_FACILITIES)

LOCATION

Location of a carrier or lot or durable which comes directly from the tracking system used at the site. This could be a port or internal tool location or tool or rack or stocker or zero footprint storage or room or really anywhere. Many non-automated sites allow users to manually enter locations into their system. Therefore unless we know for sure that the source data implements a size limitation, it is recommended to always trim the value in the ETL to 32 characters to fit into the column size and avoid load errors. For ports, location is the full name of the port which is unique across the entire site and usually includes the tool name. Please see the comment in the port column which explains the difference between location and port. Rack locations are similar. (* inherited from FPSINPUT.MHS_RACK_LOCATIONS)

LOCATION_TYPE

SHORT_LOCATION

STATION

The rack, bay, building, tool, cart, or stocker which has alternately acceptable stations (* inherited from FPSINPUT.MHS_STATION_ALTERNATES)

STATION_DISPLAY

STATION_TYPE

COORD_X

This is the x coordinate position of the location within its station, in other words horizontal position. The maximum coord_x is the width of the station. This is optional and is often used for racks and sometimes for carts so we can determine the exact position of the carrier to make it easier to find. (* inherited from FPSINPUT.MHS_RACK_LOCATIONS)

COORD_Y

This is the y coordinate position of the location within its station, in other words vertical position or shelf number. The maximum coord_y is the height of the station. This is optional and is often used for racks and sometimes for carts so we can determine the exact position of the carrier to make it easier to find. (* inherited from FPSINPUT.MHS_RACK_LOCATIONS)

COORD_Z

This is the z coordinate position of the location within its station, in other words front-to-back position. This is usually 1. The maximum coord_z is the depth of the station. This is optional and is often used for racks and sometimes for carts so we can determine the exact position of the carrier to make it easier to find. (* inherited from FPSINPUT.MHS_RACK_LOCATIONS)

IS_DISPLAY_SLOT

Identifies slot on smart rack where the tablet is positioned, so a lot is unable to be stored there. (* inherited from FPSINPUT.MHS_RACK_LOCATIONS)

BAY

A bay is a physical area within the building. The bay is important for estimating travel time for a carrier to reach its destination as we usually store these estimates as a matrix of bay-to-bay and assume that the estimated time from any location within one bay to any location within another bay is approximately the same. (* inherited from FPSINPUT.MHS_BAYS)

BUILDING

Building is the top of our MHS hierarchy at each site. It is independent of facility which is at the top of our EQP/RTG hierarchy. It is possible for a building to include multiple facilities and for a facility to include multiple buildings but we do not even need to define these relationships because EQP_TOOLS determines this by the combination of the facility and bay columns (since bay points to building). (* inherited from FPSINPUT.MHS_BUILDINGS)

DESCRIPTION

Tool desciption. This value is only used to display in the Dashboard. (* inherited from FPSINPUT.EQP_TOOLS)

IS_OUTPUT_FOR_BAY

This flag indicates if this rack qualifies as an output rack for the bay for NextMove. (* inherited from FPSINPUT.MHS_RACKS)

CAST_CAPACITY

Maximum number of cassettes that can be stored. We define cassette as a carrier for a lot. (* inherited from FPSINPUT.MHS_RACK_LOCATIONS)

POD_CAPACITY

Maximum number of pods that can be stored. We define pod as a carrier for a durable. (* inherited from FPSINPUT.MHS_RACK_LOCATIONS)