Move PCB Designs to Production Faster With Valor
Identify manufacturability issues earlier, reduce PCB respins, and move designs into production with greater confidence using Siemens Valor DFM solutions.
Valor - DFM & Manufacturing Analysis Software
Identify Manufacturing Issues Before They Become Costly
As PCB designs become more complex, seemingly minor manufacturability issues can lead to failed fabrication, assembly problems, costly respins, production delays, and lower manufacturing yields. When DFM analysis happens late in the process, engineering teams may have already invested significant time and resources in a design that needs to be reworked.
Siemens Valor brings design-for-manufacturing earlier into the product lifecycle, helping engineering teams identify potential manufacturing issues before they become costly problems. By applying manufacturing knowledge and supplier-specific DFM requirements during design, teams can make more informed design decisions and improve the transition from PCB design to production. The result:
Fewer PCB Respins & Design Iterations
Less Manufacturing Rework & Troubleshooting
Fewer Production Delays Caused by Manufacturability Issues
Greater Confidence in First-Pass Manufacturing Success
A Faster, More Predictable Path from Design Release to Production
Why Organizations Choose Valor
Move Manufacturing Knowledge Into PCB Design
Bring manufacturing expertise directly into the design process with Manufacturing Driven Design (MDD). Valor understands how a design will be manufactured and automatically applies the appropriate DFM profile, helping designers optimize designs for manufacturability.
Identify DFM Issues Earlier Before They Impact Production
Shift DFM analysis earlier in the PCB development process to identify manufacturability issues before they reach manufacturing. Early feedback helps engineering teams resolve problems when changes are faster and less expensive to make, reducing the risk of costly respins and production delays.
Improve First-Pass Manufacturing Success
Validate PCB designs against manufacturing requirements before release to production. By identifying potential fabrication and assembly issues earlier, Valor helps engineering teams improve manufacturing yield and increase confidence that designs will move into production successfully.
Align Designs With Manufacturing Capabilities
Use supplier-specific DFM profiles to understand how design decisions affect manufacturability, cost, and production. Valor helps engineering teams align PCB designs with actual manufacturing capabilities and communicate more effectively with suppliers.
Connect PCB Design & Manufacturing
Integrate DFM analysis into the PCB design process to create a more connected path from design through manufacturing. Valor helps teams maintain manufacturing awareness throughout development rather than treating DFM as a separate, late-stage inspection.
Accelerate the Design-to-Manufacturing Handoff
Give engineering and manufacturing teams the tools to inspect, analyze, prepare, and validate PCB designs before fabrication. By streamlining the transition from design data to production-ready manufacturing data, Valor helps reduce errors, delays, and manual effort.
Valor Key Capabilities
Manufacturing Driven Design
Xpedition DFM
Integrate DFM analysis directly into the Siemens Xpedition PCB design process. Designers can run selected DFM checks progressively throughout layout and address manufacturability issues before moving to the next stage—all within the native Xpedition user experience.
Cloud-Based DFM With PCBflow
Access DFM analysis in the cloud with PCBflow, powered by the Valor NPI DFM engine. Analyze designs using manufacturer-specific DFM profiles and communicate directly with manufacturing partners to identify issues before production.
Valor DFMStream
Simplify fabrication DFM analysis with an intuitive environment for identifying potential manufacturing issues. DFMStream provides 3D visualization and robust DFM checks while supporting major PCB data formats, helping designers identify manufacturing risks and collaborate with fabricators.
Valor CAM350
Inspect, prepare, and validate PCB designs before fabrication with data import/export, DFM analysis, panelization, stencil creation, and manufacturing data preparation capabilities. CAM350 helps fabricators streamline the transition from engineering data to manufacturing output while reducing errors and delays.
Fabrication & Assembly Analysis
Evaluate PCB designs against fabrication and assembly requirements to identify potential manufacturability issues before production. Valor supports comprehensive DFM analysis across PCB fabrication, assembly, flex and rigid-flex, HDI, microvias, and packaging requirements.
Discover What Valor Can Do for Your Business
Optimize PCB Development With Engineering Services, Software, & Expert Support From Saratech
Get more from Siemens Valor with Saratech, a Siemens Digital Industries Software Platinum level partner with expertise across PCB design, engineering, manufacturing, and product development. Beyond software licensing, Saratech helps your team evaluate, implement, integrate, and optimize Siemens solutions to improve design and manufacturing processes and accelerate time to market. Saratech empowers your team with expert-led software training, mentoring, engineering services, process improvement services, and ongoing support from skilled engineers. Whether you need help adopting Valor, optimizing your DFM processes, solving complex engineering challenges, or maximizing your software investment, our team provides the expertise and support to help you achieve better results.
One Trusted Partner for Your Entire Product Development Journey
When you partner with Saratech, you get more than software. You get an experienced engineering partner with the expertise, technology, and services to support your product development journey from design and engineering through manufacturing and beyond. Our team of engineering experts help you solve complex challenges, improve processes, maximize your technology investments, and achieve better business outcomes. Saratech provides the right solutions to help you achieve your goals, reduce waste, boost efficiency, and accelerate product development.
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Valor Frequently Asked Questions FAQs
What is Siemens Valor?
Siemens Valor is a family of PCB design-for-manufacturing (DFM), manufacturing preparation, and analysis solutions that help engineering and manufacturing teams identify manufacturability issues, optimize PCB designs, and improve the transition from design to production.
How does Valor help reduce PCB respins?
Valor brings DFM analysis earlier into the PCB design process, helping teams identify manufacturability issues before designs are released to manufacturing. By addressing problems earlier and using manufacturer-specific DFM requirements, teams can reduce manufacturing-related design iterations and costly respins.
What is Valor used for?
Valor is used to analyze PCB designs for manufacturability, identify potential fabrication and production issues, apply manufacturing-specific requirements, and prepare designs for production. Its capabilities support engineering teams, PCB designers, manufacturers, and fabricators throughout the design-to-manufacturing process.
Does Valor integrate with Xpedition?
Yes. Xpedition DFM integrates DFM analysis directly into the Xpedition PCB design process. Designers can perform selected DFM checks progressively throughout layout and address manufacturability issues without leaving the Xpedition environment.
What is DFM in PCB design?
Design for Manufacturing (DFM) is the process of evaluating and optimizing a PCB design so it can be manufactured reliably, efficiently, and cost-effectively. DFM analysis helps identify potential manufacturing issues before production, reducing the risk of costly redesigns, delays, and manufacturing problems.
Can Valor use manufacturer-specific DFM requirements?
Yes. Valor can use manufacturer-specific DFM profiles to align analysis with supplier capabilities and requirements. This helps engineering teams understand manufacturing constraints and make better-informed design decisions before handing designs off to production.
What is the difference between Valor DFMStream and Valor CAM350?
Valor DFMStream provides an intuitive environment for basic fabrication DFM analysis, helping designers identify potential fabrication issues and yield risks. Valor CAM350 is focused on PCB fabrication preparation and includes capabilities such as data import/export, DFM analysis, panelization, and stencil creation.
Is Valor suitable for complex PCB designs?
Yes. Valor is designed to help engineering and manufacturing teams manage the manufacturability challenges associated with increasingly complex PCB designs by bringing manufacturing knowledge and DFM analysis into the design and production process.
How does Valor support the design-to-manufacturing process?
Valor helps connect PCB design and manufacturing by providing DFM analysis, manufacturing-specific design feedback, visualization, and production preparation capabilities. This allows teams to identify and address potential issues before fabrication and create a more efficient handoff from design to manufacturing.
Why purchase Siemens Valor from Saratech?
Saratech provides more than software licensing. We help customers evaluate, implement, integrate, and optimize the right Siemens software for their business while providing engineering consulting, training, technical support, and broader product development expertise. Our goal is to help manufacturers improve product development, reduce cycle times and costs, shorten lead times, and accelerate time to market—not simply deploy software.
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