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LOS ANGELES – Valor Computerized Systems announced the implementation of vPlan, its new process engineering software, at EMS provider Mack Technologies.
Mack beta’d vPlan, and the results led to a corporate-wide order once the product was released, Valor said.
In a press release, Steve Barbera, VP of technical operations at Mack, said, “vPlan’s ability to autogenerate machine data on the fly for multiple machine types saves us a significant amount of debug time on the production floor, improves our SMT line efficiency, and makes it extremely easy to adopt new SMT machines and transfer jobs between lines and even sites. It allows us to focus on our business-critical functional workflow rather than deal with low-level scripting at the CAM level.”
LOS ANGELES -- Texmac Inc. today announced complete testing and programming services using Takaya APT-series flying-probe systems.
The new services are available to users of Takaya systems and to any electronics manufacturer that needs fixtureless test.
Services offered include simple program preparation and CAD conversion, full program development and debug, and complete board testing.
Texmac is the exclusive authorized distributor of Takaya flying probers in North America.
The new services are available to users of Takaya systems and to any electronics manufacturer that needs fixtureless test.
Services offered include simple program preparation and CAD conversion, full program development and debug, and complete board testing.
Texmac is the exclusive authorized distributor of Takaya flying probers in North America.
LOS ANGELES – iNEMI today announced its 2007 iNEMI Roadmap will be available to industry next month. The latest edition of the biennial document charts electronics manufacturing’s technology and infrastructure needs through 2017. It also discusses market convergence, miniaturization, harmonization of environmental requirements, migration of manufacturing and R&D, reliability, printed electronics and more.
LOS ANGELES -- Traffic was up somewhat on the second day of the IPC Apex show, to the relief of exhibitors who were beginning to show some frustration with the downtown Los Angeles site.
Purchasers take note: Cookson’s Steve Corbett and Henkel’s Pat Trippel separately stressed that the precious metals markets are running wild. “The tin market situation is scary,” noted Corbett, noting the shutdowns in Indonesia and market uncertainty in Bolivia – two primary suppliers.
LOS ANGELES -- Placement, placement, placement. It’s the most expensive machine on the line, and at Apex the OEMs showed once again why that’s the case.
vPlan is an enterprise-level, electronics assembly process engineering software tool. The new tool synchronizes process engineering in an easy-to-use package, from CAD to the machine level (SMT, PTH, and manual assembly) in three steps.
The tool defines the product, creating a normalized and validated virtual PCA using a lean data model that enables quick-change management, DFx analysis, and an optimized assembly processes. Next, it defines production resources. Virtual machine lines can be easily defined and machine library data can be auto-generated for all machine configurations with the help of Valor’s VPL service. This step is said to practically eliminates machine library management. Finally, vPlan generates manufacturing process definitions, which contain optimized output and documentation for assembly machines and manual work cells, matched to available resources and the product model.
Valor Computerized Systems, www.valor.com
