Sony TiMMS and Router Solutions announce strategic partnership agreement

Router Solutions Incorporated (RSI), supplier of ECAD data preparation and paperless repair software and Sony TiMMS, the resource for lean manufacturing and demand-chain management, have announced the establishment of a strategic partnership. This partnership creates a powerful integration resulting in a single end-to-end solution for managing data and processes from PCB design throughout the complete manufacturing process. Users can capture and prepare ECAD data from a variety of sources. This is then seamlessly integrated into the comprehensive, lean manufacturing system resulting in extremely rapid and high quality new product introduction. The leading-edge automation capabilities of Sony TiMMS and RSI aim to enable manufacturers to improve utilization of existing value-added processes. In a joint statement the companies commented "the partnership provides printed circuit manufacturers with a single, fully integrated solution for acquiring virtually any ECAD data and effectively outputting it to a proven, full-featured lean manufacturing system". The two companies are pioneers in their own fields of expertise. RSI has been a leading innovator of solutions for ECAD data preparation and analysis for over 15 years. Over the same period of time, Sony TiMMS has enabled leading manufacturers to realize step-change improvement in their total value-chain. The two companies are engaged in several joint projects currently providing solutions for New Product Introduction (NPI) for vertically integrated manufacturers as well as electronics manufacturing services providers. In all instances, the partnership enables users to adopt lean manufacturing and incorporate rapid new product introduction with a well-integrated end-to-end PCB manufacturing solution.Source: PCBnewsline