Best-in-class DFM (Design for Manufacturability) verification solution for first-time, zero-defect manufacturing.
Enterprise is DFM software for OEMs and PCB designers, and much, much more. It's actually a unique, virtual manufacturing system, which enables OEMs to simulate the entire production process, from design to manufacture to assembly, concurrently with the design process. With Enterprise, designs are optimised for excellence using a physical design model of the PCB assembly - revision spins are practically eliminated, and you benefit from faster times to market and improved product quality.
Concurrent Engineering
The secret to the elegant functionality of Enterprise is no secret at all. It's Valor-developed ODB++, the most intelligent format for data exchange, which has taken the industry by storm to replace other formats as the de facto standard. ODB++, already in place at hundreds of OEM, bare-board fabrication and assembly sites worldwide, consolidates CAD/EDA intelligence and the PCB manufacturing knowledge base into a single, open, expandable database. Vertical integration throughout the electronics interconnect industry is finally achieved, with ODB++ delivering a simple, yet intelligent and powerful bridge between the worlds of design and manufacturing.
Concurrent Engineering
Within the OEM or PCB design facility, Enterprise delivers concurrent engineering via smooth, two-way communication with popular EDA databases from Cadence, Mentor, Zuken, Pads, P-Cad and more. Since communication is direct at the input phase, the system captures all of the original design intelligence, including graphical objects, components, attributes, geometry names, hole plating status, etc.. Old-style interfacing methods based on multiple unintelligent files are bypassed.
Analyse and optimise designs for faster times to market, zero defects first time.
Enterprise solves the problems of designs that keep coming back for revisions and alterations, and test runs that result in faulty boards and fully avoidable, expensive scrap. By coupling high-level ODB++ data with easy-to-implement automation for running fully repeatable, rules-based fabrication and assembly analysis and yield optimisation actions, problematic areas are found and corrected before the design goes out. Enterprise makes it easy to design for excellence by providing tools which elevate the efficiency of your current layout process. Just take your design and put it through easy-to-implement automated fabrication, assembly and test analysis actions - before it leaves your workstation. And you can easily go back and forth between Enterprise and your original layout system to incorporate changes in the original data or pinpoint any problematic area at its source - with effortless, one-touch graphic synchronization between Enterprise's Graphic Station and the original EDA system. It's easy to integrate your suppliers' manufacturing tolerances into your design process; and you achieve zero-defects with the first prototype. Output the final design in yield-optimised ODB++, with confidence that all the intelligence has been retained - and that it won't be coming back for revisions.
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