Nearly all products today—ranging from cars to toys to medical devices—contain some type of on-board electronics. The integration of electronic components in products complicates the design process because it requires the unification of what has traditionally been viewed as two diverse disciplines: electrical and mechanical engineering.
Electronics are increasingly being incorporated into products as manufacturers attempt to stay ahead of the rising tide of consumers who demand “smarter” products. In order to design complex electronics faster and better than ever, manufacturers must unify their design processes so the flow of design data across the electro-mechanical divide is smooth and efficient.
工程师还必须考虑在将这些复杂产品制造时，在将设计送往制造之前，以防止下游瓶颈进行制造，以改善设计和验证的方法。在最后阶段出现的问题不仅是最昂贵的解决方案，而且可以延迟产品交付时间表。
Mentor图形引入了确保“右键”设计的工具
Mentor Graphics Corp.昨天宣布发布一种新工具，以帮助自动化电子设计过程。新工具Valor是新产品简介（NPI）软件，旨在启用用于设计，制造和组装印刷电路板（PCB）的集成自动流量。
Valor was designed to help the design- and product-level NPI engineer prepare and validate product models according to the manufacturer’s rule-set in the engineer’s native design tool. What this does is help ensure a perfect design for production, without requiring specialist manufacturing expertise.
Mentor Graphics的新Valor NPI软件使用户能够与设计流程同时验证制造约束。
Using the tool, the process-level NPI engineer can evaluate and create process toolkits with no manual entry, so the manufacturer can have a “right-the-first-time” design to eliminate production errors.
The company’s goal in creating Valor was to close the gap between the designer and manufacturer. Now, the manufacturer can create and adjust the rules to meet manufacturing requirements that the designer can follow for a truly bi-directional, consistent, one-rule flow. The tool benefits NPI product and process engineers by reducing design re-spins, improving overall product quality and shortening product delivery schedules.
精益NPI流的功能和好处
The features and benefits of Valor include:
•由设计师发布的单文件ODB ++（V8）产品模型，该模型不需要由制造商操纵，从而增强了分散原型和量制造供应链之间的产品控制和质量保证。
• Inclusion of “virtual documentation” in the product-model coming from the product-NPI phase of the lean NPI flow eliminates the need for manual entry of product data at the process-NPI stage from drawings and “side-files.” This saves time, reduces cost, accelerates the NPI process and reduces the risk of human error in the NPI process.
•基于从制造商那里收到的制造过程构成，对设计级别的产品设计的全面验证。这可以最大程度地减少NPI中以制造驱动的设计修订版和延迟。
The lean NPI flow from Mentor Graphics is now available and is comprised of the Mentor Xpedition platform, the Valor NPI and Valor Process Preparation products, and the Valor Parts Library. The lean NPI flow also optimally supports Frontline PCB fabrication tools and several ODB++-compatible, third-party tools.
Valor解决方案的独特配置为支持每个客户的特定要求，因此与Mentor Graphics代表联系是最佳入门方法。要了解有关此版本的更多信息，请查看Mentor图形网站。
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