Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 01 03:57:10 EST 2013 | jlawson
Another software vendor that you might want to look at is mentor valor mss tools. System has good mydata support from full programing, grouping and even autogeneration of smt parts, materials management , manual assembly,documents, and many other sco
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 17 20:47:51 EST 2010 | jlawson
Also take a look at vplan from Mentor graphics(Valor) this has very powerful CAD/CAM to centroid capability...can generate Centroid data from Gerber - creates packages , polarities and assigns Refdes with easy to use tool...
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 26 05:26:48 EDT 2010 | muarty
Hi aj, The Valor (Mentor graphics) system is pretty impressive. You should also consider the Siemens MES package - comparable at least to the Valor system in both functionality and price. John
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 08 00:09:24 EST 2012 | jlawson
Mentor(Valor) has dfm softwares that not only looks at the stecnicl layers buy can look at other impacts that could effect the optimisation of the stencil design, ie solder mask layer tolerances defined from fabricator-design etc - this is a upper en
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 10 14:23:01 EST 2016 | rkondner
Hi, We just bought 2 YesTech F1 AOI machines and we could use a little help. We are using Mentor Valor tools which generated placement files (.ycd) but we need to manage our F1 package and marking libraries. We will be doing a lot of very short run
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 28 03:32:04 EST 2014 | jlawson
Also Valor MSS Process Preparation toolhttp://www.mentor.com/pcb-manufacturing-assembly/products/valor-mss-process-preparation Has great gerber processing tools, but as stated gerber was never targeted at SMT assembly SO ALL tools have to re-process
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 28 03:34:21 EST 2014 | jlawson
MSS Valor Process Preparation, also has great gerber processing... http://www.mentor.com/pcb-manufacturing-assembly/products/valor-mss-process-preparation But as stated gerber was never intended to cope with assembly data only fabrication hence not
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 08 04:48:39 EDT 2013 | jlawson
Also Valor MSS Process Preparation from mentor is a option Has the most complete solution on market, covers what CircuitCam does but can offer more options as you need, auto-generation of SMT parts for programming machines, DFT Probing, Stencil Optim
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 13 05:35:50 EST 2014 | jlawson
Valor-Mentor has bardcode based verification solution with machine connection and control for most machines on market and options to connect to machines in various ways to lock system until verification process is done. Handles splicing and led binin
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 13 05:36:37 EST 2014 | jlawson
Valor-Mentor has bardcode based verification solution with machine connection and control for most machines on market and options to connect to machines in various ways to lock system until verification process is done. Handles splicing and led binin
