SIPLACE and mentor graphics announce the new SIPLACE operations information broker (OIB)
Article Type: New products From: Soldering & Surface Mount Technology, Volume 22, Issue 4
Siemens Electronics Assembly Systems GmbH & Co., KG (SEAS), innovations leader in SMT placement solutions, and Mentor Graphics Corporation, (NASDAQ:MENT) the market and technology leader in electronic systems design to manufacturing solutions, have announced the first phase of integration between Siemens’ SIPLACE product range and Mentor’s Valor® MSS™suite of manufacturing operations products via the SIPLACE OIB.
The SIPLACE OIB interface technology provides advanced capabilities for information exchange between Valor MSS and the entire range of SIPLACE SMT placement machines. The key point is that factory and line-level management software from Valor and machine-level software and hardware functionality on the SIPLACE side of the OIB interface can evolve flexibly without the need to change the interface itself. This sustainable interoperability is the main value for end-users who can select systems from Mentor Graphics and Siemens with the confidence that they will work together long-term, delivering value as a combined system with minimum downtime and production mistakes that arise from data communication problems. Users will be able to implement new software versions on each side of the interface with full confidence that the system will continue to run as intended, long-term.
The SIPLACE Team and the team from Mentor Graphics Valor division mapped out a phased approach to the OIB implementation. Phase-1 of the SIPLACE OIB integration is available now and includes critical information required for program control, an essential part of the site-software to machine-hardware integration. Future phases include synchronization of materials operations and real-time data management (Figure 1).
Figure 1 The OIB interface connects the valor line-level management software from Mentor Graphics with the machine level data and control signals from the SIPLACE placement machines
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