CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
20 February 2007
Implementation Investments
Mack Technologies Chooses vPlan as its Next Process Engineering Platform
Valor Computerized Systems Ltd has recently implemented vPlan, its next-generation process engineering solution at Mack Technologies, Inc., an electronics manufacturing solutions provider of printed circuit board assemblies and complex systems integrations.
Mack Technologies, a veteran user of Valor's solutions, was offered the opportunity to become a beta partner of Valor's during the development of vPlan. Impressive results during the beta period lead to a corporate-wide order once the product was ready for release. Steve Barbera, VP of Technical Operations at Mack Technologies, explains: "Mack Technologies has already seen strong improvements through deployment of Valor's software in the past, and now vPlan, the new product, takes that further by providing us with higher level of automation and functional integration than ever before."
"We consider our strength to be in our ability to provide customers with quick time-to-market for complex printed circuit boards and box builds," says Barbera. "vPlan's ability to autogenerate machine data on the fly for multiple machine types saves us a significant amount of debug time on the production floor, improves our SMT line efficiency, and makes it extremely easy to adopt new SMT machines and transfer jobs between lines and even sites. Having this high level of automation without having to sacrifice flexibility is virtually priceless. It allows us to focus on our business-critical functional workflow rather than deal with low level scripting at the CAM level."
Commenting on other capabilities of the product, Barbera says: "Implementation of new products often encounters resistance, but surprisingly enough, this wasn't the case with vPlan. The product is fast, friendly, and its sheer technological innovation was enough to make everyone want to work with it. In addition, we had Valor's support staff to back us at every step of the way, which is very important when you want to make such significant moves while minimizing the interruption to your daily operations."
About vPlan
vPlan is a single solution that delivers a complete engineering process from CAD to machine, covering SMT, Through Hole Technology and manual assembly. With innovative technologies such as Learning Libraries and the ability to auto-generate machine shapes for all machine configurations, vPlan is capable of producing Manufacturing Process Definitions with optimized output and documentation for assembly machines and manual work cells, perfectly matched to available resources and to the product model. This provides manufacturers with the fastest route through production.
Become a member of the CIMdata PLM Community to receive your daily PLM news and much more.
Tell us what you think of the CIMdata Newsletter. Send your feedback.
CIMdata is committed to your privacy. Your personal information will never be sold or shared outside of CIMdata without your express permission.