Electronics Forum | Mon May 25 01:50:48 EDT 2015 | alexeis
Hi, As we found, Valor have a best NPI tools but other parts are limited and is not completed. Also, Valor was a single solution for NPI about 10-15 years ago, but today you can find NPI tools from China, Europe, USA and other that can do the same a
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 11 05:36:28 EDT 2015 | jlawson
Valor MSS NPI is far more powerful than all the lower cost solutions, I had customer assess all their lower cost solutions and found no real added value, if want more than just SMT programming. NPI needs Stencil Optimisation , DFM analysis, DFT engi
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 11 16:18:48 EST 2008 | jlawson
Valors new Vplan NPI solution includes comprehensive rotation correction and virtual sticky tape to eliminate rotation errors in final SMT machine programs, you can learn a customers source CAD rotation info for use later again and again...regardles
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 29 06:57:13 EDT 2015 | jlawson
Valor MSS has options for NPI Data preparation and processing, SMT programming, documentation, verification, materials management, traceability, and QA management not just in SMT but into backend process aka manual assembly as well as production plan
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 31 19:30:24 EDT 2022 | ninevoltz
We recently bought three used AX201 machines and a copy of Siemens Valor Process Preparation NPI software to program them. Does anyone have a copy of the K&S Optimizer software that connects with Valor to generate the NC program and run Virtual Stick
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 18 07:14:49 EDT 2013 | jlawson
Yes Aegis and Valor are good choices in terms of NPI, SMT programming , which one you choose will depend on other factors, Valor offers I feel a more rounded product, ie under one platform. Both offer CAD-BOM to SMT and Documentation, but Valor offer
Electronics Forum | Fri May 22 20:50:55 EDT 2015 | jlawson
Siemens FX may have some good parts in MES part but front end and NPI tools are much more limited to what Valor MSS offers... As total package end to end Valor MSS can provide full scope. Siemens has not put much R&D and enhancements in front end 'U
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 11 16:05:46 EST 2008 | jlawson
Our programs are created in an ASCII format ( we > do not have Unicam or Circuit cam ), so we load > the finish PNP program and then we sort it by > reference designator. We then load the BOM in an > ASCII format and also sort it by reference >
Electronics Forum | Fri May 15 21:07:35 EDT 2015 | jlawson
I think Valor MSS is best in market solution, ODB++ no issue and has documentation, coupled if can afford VPL part packages offers very accurate images of PCB in docs Siemens UnifcamFX is not bad but dated in functionality scope. Valor MSS Process P
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 01 07:32:51 EDT 2017 | jlawson
Another commercial tool is Valor MSS Process Preparation from Mentor-Siemens (Valor), can handle Gerber, PnP, ODB++, Native CAD ASCII Files, BOM and CAD Merge, SMT Pn Programming, AOI exports , DFT Engineering - ICT/Flying Probe programming, Stencil
