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Omnify Software (Wilmington, MA), a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software for mid-market electronic, medical, mechanical and defense original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and Cimmetry Systems (Cambridge, MA), a provider of visualization and collaboration solutions for the A/E/C, engineering, manufacturing and electronics markets, announced a new OEM partnership. Omnify has licensed Cimmetry's AutoVue visualization and collaboration technology to be embedded in the Omnify PLM system.
Cimmetry's technology offers the groups involved in the product development and manufacturing process a single location to view, markup and collaborate on all documents related to the product record.
"Cimmetry's AutoVue is a unique technology for the electrical and mechanical
markets," said Chuck Cimalore, chief technology officer at Omnify. "By supporting 3-D CAD, 2-D CAD and EDA formats, AutoVue covers the complete range of formats necessary to serve today's manufacturers. AutoVue, integrated with our PLM system, delivers enhanced data management and collaboration across the entire extended enterprise."
"Omnify brings to market a full-featured, business-ready PLM solution," said Michael Vidmar, business development manager at Cimmetry. "By embedding AutoVue's MCAD and ECAD visualization capabilities, Omnify PLM bridges that traditional gap between mechanical and electrical departments."
Omnify Software delivers a complete PLM solution for OEMs to manage their part, bill of materials, engineering change and documentation information within a single location. Its PLM features a Web architecture that enables out-of-the box, bi-directional integration with an organization's engineering and enterprise systems, ensuring automatic entry and extraction of information.
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A group of providers of lead-free soldering and assembly will put on a full day of seminar presentations at the Hilton Hotel, Nuremberg, Germany on June16, 2004. The event has been planned close to the nearby SMT Exhibition to allow manufacturing management the opportunity to attend both events.
A representative from Indium Corp. (Utica, NY) and Vahid Goudarzi of Motorola will explain how Motorola implemented lead-free solder in the production of over 10 million cellular phones. The discussion will also cover initial quality and product implementation.
Dr. Ning Cheng Lee and Dr. Ronald Lasky of Indium will also cover topics such as alloy selection and challenges and best practices of implementing lead-free assembly.
A number of other presentations include Hewlett Packard's discussion on implementation onto large boards. Gerjan Diepstraten, Vitronics- Soltec, will discuss lead-free wave soldering and Hans-Juergen Albrecht, Siemens, will cover reliability of lead-free interconnects. Ross Bernston, Indium, will cover the subject of mixed technology in lead-free assembly.
ACB, Peters and KIC will give other presentations. The event is by reservation only.
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Ray Prasad Consultancy has announced that a detailed lead-free course will take place on May 17-18, 2004, in Beaverton, OR, presented by Ray Prasad and Dr. Raiyo Aspandiar of Intel.
The course, Lead Free Technology For Electronic Assemblies: Problems and Promises, is led by instructors that have years of hands-on experience in implementing surface-mount and lead free in small and large companies to help identify business and technical issues in lead-free conversion. This is not a theoretical course. Actual Intel case studies will show the pitfalls and successes of lead-free implementation.
In addition to discussing the details of in-house lead free implementation, the course will also show you the questions to should ask your contract manufacturer (CM) if you plan to outsource/off-shore your product. Technical details, including wave and reflow profile development, paste selection, inspection and rework using both conventional and diode laser of lead-free solder joints, will be presented. The course will also give the status of legislation banning lead around the world including Europe, Japan, China and the U.S., and how participants can improve their company's profile and benefit from this disruptive technology.
Engineers and Managers who are either already into lead free or thinking of getting into lead free will benefit from this course. Participants will get an insight into the details of lead-free soldering technology to successfully implement lead free in your process and products.
Prasad will also offer a course on Surface-Mount Technology and Ball Grid Array (BGA) Design and Manufacturing on May 11-14, 2004.
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