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Electronics Manufacturing
High Tech and Electronics manufacturers must bring cost-effective products to market faster than ever while meeting a variety of challenges including:
- Managing the data associated with the introduction of large numbers of new products in record time
- Manufacturing a growing mix of complex products
- Meeting customer and regulatory demands like traceability and lead-free manufacturing
- Introducing new technologies, being components, software, equipment or processes.
- Feeding critical as-built information back to enterprise systems
SIEMENS Tecnomatix solutions for High Tech and Electronics addresses critical issues faced by electronics manufacturers, by providing the most widely used solutions for managing and controlling the delivery of product data to the shop floor, preparing and optimizing product data for manufacturing, and collecting critical as-built process, quality and traceability information for every product assembly.
Beyond these day-to-day manufacturing challenges, global electronics manufacturers face the challenge of acquiring new facilities; selecting the right equipment; balancing the workload between factories; managing inventory and quality on a global scale; and managing the outsourcing business process.
You can use this complete, end-to-end manufacturing solution to design, optimize and execute board and box level production processes. Tecnomatix solutions help you introduce new products faster by enabling you to more easily program and optimize the widest variety of assembly machines and test equipment in low and high-mix scenarios, logging defects in the repair process and managing all aspects of manufacturing execution, from material management, to machine monitoring to quality management to full product and process traceability.
Simatic IT - Traceability for Electronics
Simatic IT for
Electronics is a comprehensive web-based manufacturing execution 
solution that enables PCB and Box assemblers to meet traceability
requirements, control production, and integrate with their enterprise
environments.
UniCam FX - for Electronics Assembly
UniCam FX offers faster time-to-volume production and greater new product 
introduction (NPI) accuracy which impacts all your downstream processes. Instituting a single NPI solution via standard workflows, consistent knowledge capture and standardized tools is critical to the programming and optimization of NPI processes. By covering the entire NPI process, from CAD import through manufacturing recipe generation, and by supporting single platform and mixed-vendor lines, UniCam FX helps continuously improve your NPI process and maximize the uptime and throughput of your lines.
Test Expert - for Electronics Test and Inspection
Test Expert software from Siemens PLM Software fully automates test engineering 
associated with new product introduction processes for PCB Assembly. With more than 1,500 customer sites, Test Expert is the most widely used solution of its kind for electronics manufacturers. Test Expert is a fully integrated solution that allows electronics manufacturers to go from design to test and inspection in a matter of minutes or hours rather than days.
Gerber Expert - for Gerber Data Coversion back to eCAD
We all have to deal with Gerber data from our customers. Whether the target process 
is assembly or test, the Gerber importing process has to be highly automated and accurate. Gerber expert has the history and user base that proves this. Sophisticated
tools such as UniCam FX and Test Expert depend on accurate data, and Gerber Expert provides this in the quickest way possible.
Visual CAM - A Powerful Electronics Manufacturing CAM Software Package
Intended primarily for high end users who are typically PCB Fabricators or PCB 
Designers interested in taking total control over their design to manufacturing
data flow.
GerbTool - A suite of PCB CAM tooling and analysis software
From basic visual verification to powerful Design Rules Checks (DRC) and Design
For 
Manufacture (DFM) analysis, GerbTool provides all the functions you need to
ensure the production of high-quality PCBs while reducing cycle times and
time-to-market.
Electronics Manufacturing Overview
Created: 01/05/2010
Acuity Solutions and WISE Software Solutions today announced a partnership focused on the sales and support of the VisualCAM and GerbTool family of products developed by WISE.
The relationship between the two companies will leverage WISE’s leadership in Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software for PCB manufacturers and Acuity’s proven track record and presence in the market place providing software based automation solutions. This partnership stems from Acuity’s existing activities promoting and supporting WISE’s reverse engineering product offered through Siemens PLM Software under the Gerber Expert private label. Acuity is also a reseller and support arm for Siemens focusing on the electronics manufacturing portfolio of software solutions.
Andy Wise, WISE Software’s President said, The relationship we’ve established with Acuity is clearly a win for all including our customers. With their focus on customer satisfaction and ability to solve problems, Acuity is ideally positioned to help us bring our suite of manufacturing productivity tools further into the market. We are very excited about this partnership.
In our continuing effort to help our customers, we are constantly on the lookout for the best tools available, said Nick Huffer, Director of the Electronics Business Unit of Acuity. With both the capabilities we’ve seen in the VisualCAM/GerbTool product portfolio and with the results that users have had with them, WISE is clearly the company to partner with. We’re anxious to help bring these products to market and make an even greater impact with our customers up and down stream.
The relationship between Acuity and WISE authorizes Acuity to market, sell, and support the WISE product line throughout North America.
About WISE Software: WISE Software Solutions, Inc. (http://www.wssi.com), a privately held corporation, is the leading volume provider of Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software and services that enable Designers and Fabricators to streamline the process of manufacturing Printed Circuit Boards. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Newberg, Oregon, WISE has delivered more than 30,000 seats of software and has OEM relationships with key vendors such Electro Scientific Industries, Siemens and ScanCAD International. It has major installations within companies such as Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Texas Instruments, RIM, Robert Bosch GmbH, Sandia, Sanmina and Xerox.
About Acuity Solutions: Acuity Solutions, Inc is one of the nation’s leading engineering technology providers to the manufacturing industry with over 25 years of experience. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Acuity continues with its tradition of providing best-in-class services and products to the most innovative and forward-thinking product design and manufacturing organizations. For more information on Acuity, visit www.acuityinc.com.
