Hitech's mission is to help Brazilian companies achieve world-class competitiveness in
quality, productivity and timely creation of reliable and innovative products, as well as provide support to global manufacturers. The company accomplishes its mission through commitment to customers, its staff of highly trained professionals and the distribution and/or exclusive representation of leading companies.
�The combination of Hitech's technical expertise and understanding of the local market needs with Valor's world class software offering for the EDA and PCB assembly markets will be a recipe for success. The Valor offering will enable Brazilian companies to accelerate new product introduction cycles and optimize assembly operations while tracing and controlling all aspects of the PCB assembly and test processes. Hitech will act as a Platinum representative for Valor, providing sales and customer support throughout Brazil,� said Dan Weitzman, President, Americas.
Caroline Jabur, Hitech's President, said, �We are pleased to be partnering with a company of Valor's reputation and stature. Valor is the recognized world leader in productivity improvement software optimizing and controlling all aspects of PCB design and assembly processes and will be a great partner in attaining our mission in the Brazilian electronics industry.�
The Hitech team provides more than 33 years of experience supplying the Brazilian electronics market with leading international brands in the areas of electronic components, especially integrated circuits, electronics assembly systems, test and measurement, and electronics design automation software.
Hitech maintains an experienced staff of applications support, maintenance engineers and technicians. The company has a team of 50 professionals at offices in S�o Paulo, Indaiatuba and Manaus, covering approximately 90 percent of the Brazilian electronics industry. Hitech will represent Valor's software solutions throughout Brazil.
Headquartered in S�o Paulo, Hitech may be contacted at Av. Adolfo Pinheiro, 1000 - SL2 - CJ. 004 CEP: 04734-002 - Alto da Boa Vista - S�o Paulo - SP � Brazil; Telephone: 55 (11) 2182-4300; Fax: 55 (11) 2182-4360; Web site: http://www.hitech.com.br.
About Valor Computerized Systems, Inc.
Valor Computerized Systems, Inc. is a global provider of productivity improvement software across the printed circuit board manufacturing supply chain. The company's software solutions simulate, optimize, monitor and control the PCB production lifecycle, enabling customers to manufacture PCBs for electronic products more efficiently, cost effectively and with better quality. Valor helps PCB layout designers test and validate the PCB design before it is sent for manufacturing. It provides the bare-board manufacturers with CAM (Genesis) tools to better plan and execute the fabrication process. Finally, the company assists PCB assemblers worldwide to better manage their cost structure with leading process planning�(vPlan) tools, shop floor monitoring and control software solutions (vManage), and test results and quality information management solutions (vCheck). For more information, visit http://www.valor.com.