Yavne, Israel – Valor Computerized Systems Ltd, a global provider of productivity-enhancing software solutions for the electronics industry, has been selected by Thales Nederland, a member of the international Thales Group, to provide its Process Engineering software solution for seamless CAD-to-Machine transfer.

As a current user of Valor’s Design for Manufacturing (DFM) tools, Thales Nederland, a provider of military electronic systems, already enjoys the benefits of high quality and accelerated NPI (New Product Introduction) process resulting from verification of designs prior to manufacturing. Now, Thales Nederland has chosen to expand their use of Valor’s solutions to the process engineering realm, and implement Valor’s process automation and machine program optimization tools. The solution will be implemented in a mixed SMT (Surface Mount Technology) production lines environment comprised of Assembléon and Yamaha SMT platforms.

“Our solutions for accelerating and improving quality of electronics manufacturing are suitable for all types of companies – even those who need to meet the strictest demands like Thales Nederland,” said Stephan Häfele, president of Valor Europe. “In addition, the ability to operate in a mixed-vendor environment using a single tool will provide Thales Nederland with significant flexibility and transparency in their work.”

Valor’s Process Engineering solution integrates all incoming logistical and engineering data into a single database for elegant, efficient pre-production and communication. Once all the relevant data is captured, it is analyzed and optimized for manufacturability using full kinematics modeling of assembly machines together with advanced optimization routines.

Whether for single products on stand-alone machines, or multiple products on multi-platform assembly lines, the result is significant operational efficiency and quality improvement, achieved through clean, validated, optimized data fit for right-first-time manufacturing.