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Gerber Expert a Result of WISE Software, UGS PLM Software Agreement |
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Written by Tracy Heffner
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Tuesday, 15 May 2007 |
NEWBERG, OR – WISE Software announced that the company has been working with UGS PLM Software, a division of Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D), under a formal OEM agreement signed in 2006. Under the terms of the agreement, WISE has developed a private label Assembly Reverse Engineering product for UGS called Gerber Expert.
Gerber Expert includes WISE Software’s latest technology for Assembly Reverse Engineering of Gerber data. Not to be confused with “CAD Reverse Engineering,” Assembly Reverse Engineering is said to focuse on extracting component centroid information from Gerber data. The centroid information is then used by UGS Tecnomatix PCB Assembly and Test related products in the optimization and programming of PCB assembly and test processes. Gerber Expert is offered in stand-alone configurations, as well as bundled with the UGS Tecnomatix TotalCAD option module. Migration offers are also available for users of certain UGS legacy products for a limited period of time.
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Andy Wise, WISE Software’s president said, “We are delighted to have been chosen to work with UGS PLM Software on a project of this magnitude and importance. A typical assembly process flow comes to a virtual standstill when Gerber data is received instead of CAD data. Gerber Expert eliminates this problem and provides UGS Tecnomatix users with some of the most highly automated and accurate methods available for extracting component centroid information from generic Gerber data. We look forward to a mutually beneficial relationship between WISE Software and UGS PLM Software, as well as the acceptance of Gerber Expert within the UGS user community.”
Gerber Expert offers five different methods of component identification, including automatic processes that can work from a variety of information found within a standard bare-board production dataset. The results allow for a reverse engineering flow that can reportedly be completed in as little as a few seconds.
Gerber Expert also contains features from existing WISE Software products, which are said to be focused on helping users maintain maximum throughput while processing their data. HyperNETLIST increases netlist generation performance over similar competitive tools by five to10 times, while Graphical Netlist Comparison performance performs two to five times faster than those same competitive tools. A fully automatic Draw-to-Flash conversion is offered, which further reduces the amount of “hands-on” user time required to complete the conversion process. Rounding things out are WISE’s Paste Mask Stencil Enhancement technology, which offers significant levels of control during shape replacement, minimizing the number of iterations required to achieve the desired mask results. Gerber Expert also includes many other features from WISE Software’s existing core technology.
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