Valor Parts Library (VPL) Reaches 20 Million Components
New Premium Service Delivers 100% Match Rates on BOMs/AVLs
Yavne (Israel), September 11, 2001 - Valor Computerized Systems (Neuer Markt: VCR) today announced that the VPL (Valor Parts Library), its online library delivering physical models of components, has grown to over 20 million parts, as compared to the 4 million level, reported this time last year. In addition, Valor has announced a new premium, data-building response service whereby subscribers can receive their custom component information in less than 48 hours enabling them to often achieve a 100% match rate, unlike the significantly lower match rates of other smaller libraries. Match rates are critical to engineers when they are constructing and validating their bills of materials - the higher the match rate, the faster and closer they are to zero-defect manufacturing, enabling the user to perform 100%-automated assembly analysis within a much reduced cycle time following the release of the design for manufacturability verification.
Unlike the other component libraries available today, the VPL is an internet-based data service supplying comprehensive physical models of all commercially available components directly into engineering systems such as Valor's Enterprise 3000 DFM verification and Trilogy 5000 CAM systems, and its e4eNet engineering collaboration network. Valor's policy is to invest in continuously expanding the parts coverage of VPL and the range of engineering processes it serves, with direct interfaces into Valor's own tools and also those of third-party EDA and supply chain partners.
New Premium Service for 100% Match Rates
Typically within 90 days of subscribing, users of the VPL service experience a better than 80% average match rate on their bills of materials (BOMs) against the VPL. This can rise to 100% if they take advantage of Valor's premium data-building service whereby they can fully populate the PCB with VPL packages and solve the problem of modeling proprietary and customized parts (ASICs, connectors etc.) which obviously will not be available initially from any open-market library. Unlike other library vendors, Valor has placed critical importance in helping customers achieve a 100% match rate against product-level BOMs. But the library itself is not enough; a responsive service-infrastructure is also needed to fill in the missing data left by a less than 100% result - quickly and cost-effectively for the customer. As a result of Valor's on-going commitment to VPL content building, the VPL has become the industry's largest and most robust machine-readable component physical model l!
ibrary, in comparison to other smaller libraries that support very low match rates of around 20%-30%, and then mainly deliver only PDF document files, which need redrafting by the user into a form which is useable by their engineering applications.
Commenting on the recent expansions to the VPL service, Julian Coates, vice president corporate marketing at Valor said, "The VPL is rapidly expanding in scope across the electronics supply chain providing component engineers, CAD librarians, PCB designers, DFM and process engineers with accurate parts geometry data for fast and accurate CAD/CAM engineering."
"Many global electronics design and manufacturing companies are now using the VPL data service, including Celestica, EMC˛, Flextronics, Hitachi, and SCI, where it provides real added value to a company's engineering processes. Following this success with leading OEM and CEM companies we are investing heavily in on-going R&D to support areas such as CAD library footprint generation, assembly machine support, and pre-layout component engineering tools for the validation of equivalent physical form/fit between alternative parts," Coates added.
Fast Pay Back for the PCB Industry
Electronics companies are realizing the significant cost and time advantages of using a subscription-based data service rather than building and maintaining proprietary in-house libraries. Results show that significant economies of scale occur as the VPL broadens its scope to cover even more aspects of the product realization process, ranging from the pre-layout design phase through to the manufacturing execution level. Subscription rates amount to a few dollars per part/per year for access to a continuously updated database. Typically, users are experiencing a 10x reduction in their internal costs for maintaining their libraries of physical component models. The business model of the VPL is to have a major centralized resource (through Valor) that delivers library content to multiple users across the network, as opposed to every company building its own physical library from scratch, in duplication with others, according to conflicting formats. Not only are internal costs minimized and quality levels raised, but also complete consistency of engineering data is achieved across distributed design through manufacturing supply chains.
Unique CAD/CAM-Ready Physical Models
The lack of coherent and comprehensive component libraries has caused major inbuilt inefficiencies and disconnects within the electronics industry. With the VPL, Valor's successful product and service strategy has been to solve this problem directly at the level of the physical design of PCBs, providing front to back support across the entire supply chain. The VPL is vastly different from other electronics component libraries, that contain primarily component functional and sourcing data only, because it holds all the accurate physical models of the millions of commercially-available parts in circulation in the industry, needed by engineers in the course of their work. The VPL is unique in that it holds CAD/CAM-ready graphical models of the component packages, for direct importation into the databases of CAD/CAM systems; as opposed to other libraries, which hold only parametric data (length/width etc.) that then needs to be processed through intermediate steps before loading into an engineering system, and then only generates approximate models. With the VPL, engineers do not need to hunt through catalogues and datasheets for the physical information, it is all within easy reach via Valor's online service saving valuable time and effort during the product realization cycle, from pre-layout component engineering through to post-manufacture test and repair.
About Valor
Valor is a global leader in providing business productivity tools throughout the design-through-manufacturing electronics supply chain. Valor is a public company listed on the Neuer Markt of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The company's powerful software tools, based on ODB , the Valor-funded data format which has quickly become the format of choice for high-level data exchange, ensure the rapid transfer of optimized data from design through manufacturing. Enterprise 3000 DFx system for physical design verification, Trilogy 5000 for assembly and test engineering, and the unique Valor Parts Library on-line data service are utilized by designers and engineers to deliver enhanced productivity, higher yields, shorter cycle times and increased product quality. All Valor products are sold and supported by a worldwide network that includes global subsidiary offices, VARs and OEM channels. More information about the company can be found at http://www.valor.com.
For more information please contact:
Valor Corporate
Cathryn Hage
Pentacom Public Relations
Tel: 44 (0)1242 525205
cathryn.hage@pentacomagency.com
Valor North America
Hileigh Murphy
Valor Computerized Systems, Inc.
Tel: 1 (949) 586 5969
hileigh_murphy@valor-us.com
Valor Europe
Sharon Graves
PentaCom Public Relations
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sharon.graves@pentacomagency.com
Valor Far East
Ofer Shofman
Valor Computerized Systems
Tel: (852) 2-731 6108
ofer@valor.com
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