Valor NPI helps designers identify potential manufacturing issues in a design concurrent with their design process, even as early as library cell validation. This allows designers to identify and resolve potential issues at each incremental stage of the layout process.
Valor NPI finds potential DFM manufacturing issues before going into production. It not only identifies where your PCB design exceeds your suppliers’ manufacturing capabilities, it also shows the aspects of your design that may result in low yield or field failures. With this visibility, designers can optimize their designs for manufacturing during the initial stage, accelerating their ramp-to-volume cycle.
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Valor NPI’s MRA enables you to identify potential DFM manufacturing issues before going into production. It not only identifies where your PCB design exceeds your supplier’s manufacturing capabilities, it also shows where low yield or field failures may occur. With this visibility, designers can optimize their designs for manufacturing during the initial stage, accelerating their ramp-to-volume cycle.
Company:Connect Group
Location:Kampenhout, Belgium
Product:Electronic Manufacturing and Technology Services
Size:Medium
Siemens Software:Valor NPI
Tomorrow's Vision:Time is money. That is why the Connect Group brings DFM in at a very early stage in the product lifecycle. Anticipating problems in production and incorporating testing into design help create a win-win system for the Connect Group and their customers.
The CAM Compare tool provides in-depth analysis of changes between two CAM files. This comparison can occur between identical data formats, or differing data formats. CAM Compare supports designs stored in ODB++, IPC2581, Gerber 274X, IPC-D-356A, Excellon drill data or other EDA flow data.
CAM Compare has three primary uses:
When migrating from sending legacy CAM data to intelligent data for manufacturing, customers can use CAM Compare to compare the ODB++ output to their legacy output to assure there are no differences.
When comparing one design revision to another, a digital review can be made with CAM Compare identifying what has changed between the two versions.
When reviewing the manufacturing data used by the fabricator, CAM Compare enables a design organization to determine what changes have been made while compensating for etch factors and drill sizing
The component risk assessment feature is one of the most powerful ways to leverage intelligent Design for Manufacturing within your design cycle using Valor NPI to drive a true Manufacturing Driven Design workflow.
Valor NPIs component risk assessment feature represents a blend between the embedded manufacturing knowledge of Valor NPI, as well as in-depth physical information for more than 250 billion individual components within the Valor Parts Library. The component risk assessment feature provides a detailed assembly summary for your design, providing immediate Design for Manufacturing feedback.
The feature provides assembly risk ratings for individual components. These can be review individually on a part-by-part basis, or compiled together to be viewed within BOM manager, allowing the frequency and ratio of high risk to low risk components to be viewed on a build-to-build basis.
This detailed look into the assembly process of a board allows a team to make build and BOM decisions early to ensure designs start with high yields and greater reliability in mind from the beginning.
Components within the VPL are assigned risk assessment scores based on their physical characteristics. The score considers a components’ type, overall size, terminal count, and the required mounting preparations