The ChallengeAs a PCB manufacturer, EMS or OEM, how do you remain competitive in today's market of globalization and suppressed demand? One way is to become a global manufacturer, establishing volume business at a low cost production base near the market. Another way is to focus on quick turn prototypes and providing exceptional customer services. No matter which path you choose, you must be willing to invest in information technology to streamline operations, and make your business more agile.
The SolutionCimnet provides innovative e-manufacturing software solutions and services, which enable our customers to leapfrog the competition with innovation, speed, and flexibility. By listening closely to our customers' needs and leveraging deep domain expertise, Cimnet delivers intelligent applications and a specialized ERP (S/ERP) suite for sales, engineering, collaboration, and manufacturing processes to make our customers outsmart and outperform their competitors.
NavipointEnterprise Performance Management Suite The Navipoint EMS Performance Suite (EPS) was designed with these objectives in mind:
Greatly increased responsiveness to changes in production and supply chain operations,
Significant reduction in wasted time and resources for collecting and transforming data into actionable information, and
Ability to filter out "noise" and focus on performance issues requiring attention
Paradigm®The world's most advanced S/ERP for the PCB industry just got better. Established as the industry's de facto standard for ERP system, Paradigm V2.2 is more powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use than ever. Paradigm V2.2 provides intelligent tools for Printed Circuit Board manufacturers. The total Paradigm solution ensures a sustainable competitive advantage by increasing productivity and efficiency, improving quality, slashing cycle times, identifying and reducing costs, cutting inventories, improving purchasing efficiency, and more effectively deploying productive assets, personnel, and other resources. The entire Paradigm system is flexible and scalable, making it suitable for small and emerging companies, as well as larger, multi-plant global operations.
Engenix®The Most Intelligent Engineering Execution Solution.Engenix makes the lives of PCB Engineers easier by bridging the gap between CAM and ERP systems. Engenix provides a set of unprecedented tools for job management, pre-production engineering, communication and collaboration. The Engenix rules-based engine automates manual procedures, produces accurate travelers and stackups with optimal on-hand material utilization, and it can produce all of this in minutes, automatically! Engenix integrates data from paper forms and legacy discrete systems to make critical engineering data readily accessible. It keeps the entire engineering process on track by providing revision control, distributing data to the shop floor, and providing easier communication with a built-in email and workflow driven messaging capability. It seamlessly integrates engineering, shop floor and business data, enabling the engineering team to engineer PCB's consistently, accurately and optimally. Built on open architecture and XML standards, Engenix is easy to set up and fast to deploy.
CIMfactoryThe Most Intelligent Shop Floor Automation Solution.CIMfactory enables real-time, automatic tool generation (i.e. films, fixtures, CNC and AOI programs, etc.), work order specific process optimization, and CAD/CAM data management for engineers and production staff. By integrating and analyzing customer part, job and machine data, CIMfactory automatically compensates process variances and reengineers imaging, drilling, and inspection operations. CIMfactory generates the right tool at the right time for the right machine for the right plant. It significantly reduces operational costs, reduces capital investments, improves yield and manufacturing responsiveness. By freeing engineers from repetitive routine tasks and empowering production staff to run operations more efficiently, CIMfactory delivers ROI quickly.
i-Quote The Most Intelligent Global Quotation Solution .i-Quote is an intelligent and open quotation system for the electronics industry that makes immediate and accurate responses to RFQs a reality. i-Quote's rules-based costing engine accepts RFQ and part data directly from customizable Web interfaces, and is integrated with CAM and/or ERP systems to extract and analyze data files and generate accurate quotations quickly. With unique Web-based InBox and workflow capabilities, i-Quote allows seamless multi-plant quoting and multi-stage quote management and approval, as well as providing easy communication to customers. Its central data repository increases sales team productivity and enhances business intelligence by analyzing quote status and history. Built on web-based architecture, i-Quote is easy to set up and easy to use.
Navipoint provides visibility throughout the value chain by integrating and extending manufacturing systems across multi-plant operations, and enables collaborative processes such as quoting, order visibility and supplier managed inventory.
Paradigm provides intelligent tools for the intelligent electronics manufacturer.
Engenix provides tools for job management, pre-production engineering, communication and collaboration.
i-Quote is an intelligent and open quotation system that combines web-based inputs, a rules-based costing engine, workflows and quote analysis all in one application.
CIMfactory enables real-time, automatic tool generation, work order specific process optimization and data management using an intelligent process engine and central database.
