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Siemens Valor

Score7.3 out of 10

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What is Siemens Valor?

Siemens' Valor is a software tool in manufacturing and process engineering editions.

Its manufacturing solutions enable utilizing data generated across production operations. The solutions provides a platform for gathering, analyzing and leveraging data from all machines and processes on the shop floor. Dashboards and reports provide views into equipment, line and factory performance, including enterprise resource planning (ERP). Manufacturing analytics for materials and automation of material between workstations support just-in-time (JIT) replenishment to lines and increase production efficiency, to enable users to reduce material inventory and obsolescence.

Valor process engineering solutions simplify surface mount technology (SMT) process collateral, so users meet the engineering demands of high-mix, low-volume production.It delivers PCB collateral from a single digital twin product model to reduce the work on the machines before a program is finalized. Data preparation activities such as CAD import, BOM import, panelization and part data management create the digital twin of the PCB assembly. The model can be used to deliver data to stencil design, SMT programming, inspection programming, test programming and assembly work instructions.

Categories & Use Cases

Valor is great for DFM and DFT.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Valor for DFM and DFT to improve the quality and first-time yield and support fast-to-market product delivery.

Pros

  • VPL: component info from Siemens library server, component management.
  • NPI: integration with Xpedition Designer.
  • Easy to install and configure Valor.

Cons

  • Valor NPI licenses: we are working with Siemens to resolve the issue that Siemens doesn't check out the "command-line" Valor NPI Xpedition license when running Valor checking from Xpedition Designer.
  • Valor Process Prep: we discovered a defect in the product. Currently waiting for a fix.
  • Rule checking: Too many false positives.

Most Important Features

  • Integration with Xpedition.
  • Custom rules.
  • DFM

Return on Investment

  • Helps us establish a standard of work.
  • Help us streamline the DFM and DFT process.
  • Help us reduce rework.