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Interview
om the inside: STI Electronics
Interview—Dan Weitzman,
Valor Computerized Systems
Q1. Valor is an end-to-end electronics management on the factory floor. The the supply chain.
manufacturing solution. Your Genesis keys to the integration of the supply chain
product covers the CAM side of PCB are common processes and common Q2. The Valor parts library was at the
production and your vPlan suite, tools, everyone working with one sheet of center of your entry into the assembly
including vManage and vCheck. How do music. One example is ODB++, the Valor- market. What is the current size of
these products fit together to offer DFM developed data exchange format that allows the library and is the dimensional
(design for manufacturing)? OEMs, fabricators and EMS information based on physical
companies to communicate measurement or manufacturers data
Valor is the only software
design intent with a sheets?
company in the
single intelligent data
world that delivers The Valor parts library is a key aspect in
format. Another
software solutions the overall Valor offering to the market.
good example
to every aspect The library is utilized in our Trilogy
would be the
of the printed 5000 and vPlan software environments
portability of
circuit board to provide accurate component physical
the design for
supply chain. geometric information, including body,
manufacturing
Our software height and pins, for the purpose of very
rules, called
has strong accurate spatial analysis for DFM and to
ERF files,
market presence automatically create and populate SMT
between
in the PCB machine parametric libraries. Today
OEMs,
design space, the library has over 36 million unique
fabricators
integrating with manufacturers part numbers modeled
and EMS
the EDA software based on the datasheets provided directly
companies,
systems, in the from the manufacturers. Valor takes the
ensuring
fabrication shops vendor data sheets and develops the VPL
that printed
where raw PCBs are parts in an ISO approved blind double
circuit boards
manufactured and draw process, ensuring the highest quality
are designed
throughout the entire levels possible.
with complete
assembly process from
visibility into the
NPI through production Q3. Moving on to your Trilogy 5000
manufacturing
control and quality software employed in the assembly planning
capabilities of
process, does the software comply with IPC
610A guidelines, or is it customizable?
Our Trilogy 5000 DFM software is
extremely flexible and all DFM rules in
the system (called engineering rules file,
commonly referred to as “ERFs”) are fully
customizable. We decided to provide
the market with a solid starting point in
terms of DFM rules, for both bare board
fabrication and assembly, and then provide
a robust user interface for our customers to
adjust the rules to their needs such as IPC
class, customized in house rules and so on.
The reason for this is the wide diversity in
design constraints for the many markets
within the electronics space. Think about
the difference in design constraints needed
for a ruggedized high reliability board that
needs to go into a military or aerospace
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