Manufacturing Engineering Solutions
( a.k.a Trilogy )

Pre-production engineering solution for NPI, design validation, DFM, assembly preparation and optimization, test and factory floor documentation.
Valor's engineering solution (a.k.a Trilogy) eliminates the data problems experienced by most electronics manufacturers by integrating all incoming logistical and engineering data into a single database for elegant, efficient pre-production and communication. Once Trilogy captures all the relevant data, it is ready to be analyzed and optimized for manufacturability and assembly. Productivity is doubled, component and manufacturing resources are optimized, and the final product is much more reliable.

BOM and AVL integration using Valor component library service (a.k.a VPL) for Data Verification and Accurate Analysis
Trilogy brings full integration of logistical component data (BOM/AVL) with the design/engineering data. This technology breakthrough is made possible by the VPL, the assembly industry's first fully integrateable part/package library. VPL completely eliminates time wasting searches of paper or electronic catalogs by providing physical package information on-line. You benefit from fully automatic input, verification and crosschecks between BOM/AVL and engineering data (Gerber files, component placement lists, netlists, etc). With accurate parts data intelligently captured within the ODB++ database, your Trilogy pre-production analysis and optimization processes will correctly plan the fabrication, assembly and test stages of the manufacturing flow.

Absolute machine simulation; the foundation for comprehensive assembly-line optimization
Based on the same backbone of ODB++ data, Trilogy provides full kinematics modeling of assembly machines together with multi-algorithm optimization routines to achieve best performance with any individual product or combination of products. Entire assembly lines are balanced for optimum feeder allocation, and total resource utilization is optimized, whether for single products on stand-alone machines, or multiple products to be manufactured over multi-platform assembly lines. In parallel, optimized data files for solder stencil cutting, bare-board fabrication and in-circuit testing are output, together with comprehensive customized reports and factory-floor documentation, to deliver a full manufacturing dataset from one unified and verified source.

Intelligent Data: More Accurate Data; More Accurate Assembly
With the ability to pinpoint and fix potential problems before you proceed to the line planning and program generation stages, scrap is virtually eliminated. Trilogy is based on ODB++, the IPC data format standard (IPC 2581) in place at thousands of design and manufacturing sites worldwide. ODB++ consolidates CAD/EDA intelligence and the PCB manufacturing knowledge base into a single, open, expandable database. Now, not only are all engineering tasks - from input to program generation, and everything in between - integrated into one database, but true vertical integration throughout the industry is finally achievable. Significant operational efficiency and quality improvements are achieved with clean, validated, optimized data fit for right-first-time manufacturing. 

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