Editors ask good questions. It's their job!

Editors ask good questions. It's their job!

I just got back from 2 tradeshows where I spent mucho time with editors, all interested in Mentor’s recent acquisition of Valor.  APEX in Las Vegas (not bad duty) and NEPCON in Shanghai (looong trip!).  Most had looked at our valor information web site page www.mentor.com/valor but had some additional questions which seemed to run in a common track.  Maybe you have the same questions so let me discuss:

“Will Mentor continue to serve customers that use non-Mentor PCB design systems with the Valor DFM products?”   - The answer is YES.  Basically it makes pure economic sense for Mentor.   These DFM products are present in many electronics companies and bring in a nice revenue stream.  From a pure revenue point of view, Mentor would be foolish to cut this off.

“Will ODB++ be maintained as an open standard for transfer of design data from design to manufacturing?”  Again, YES.  In fact it is our plan to further enhance this standard and make it even more intelligent so it can pass even better data to manufacturing.  This will enable mfg. to make more knowledgeable decisions as to what they can and can’t do to make a design get to target volume production levels quicker.

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Next common question: “What are you showing at the show?’  Since these were manufacturing focused shows, we showed the valor MSS product suite that addresses the manufacturing floor.  Planning and optimization of the line.  Monitoring of the line to insure smooth operation and materials availability.  Tracing products through the line and finally gathering quality information for production corrections. 

If you want to know more, go to our /valor page.   Soon we will be broadcasting a couple of webinars that talk about some new stuff into both the PCB design and PCB manufacturing domains.

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