PRESS RELEASE ARCHIVE
For Immediate Release – August 2005
AEGIS EUROPE CHOSEN BY AWS ELECTRONICS FOR PROCESS
DEFINITION IN ASSEMBLY MANUFACTURING
CHELTENHAM, UK – 23rd August 2005 – Aegis Europe, a leader in
Manufacturing Information Management systems for global electronics
assemblers, has announced that AWS Electronics, a leading UK based CEM,
has selected Aegis manufacturing information software for process
definition, documentation and advanced machine programming. The suite
includes three CircuitCAM concurrent licenses for all documentation
creation and advanced off-line machine programming with line balancing.
AWS Electronics provides medium volume electronic manufacturing services
to demanding industry sectors such as aero-defence, medical, rail, food
and scientific equipment.
The Aegis system allows manufacturers to merge the bill of materials
with the supplied CAD data to support rapid New Product Introduction for
multiple lines and multiple processes, with built-in process and BOM
revision control. CircuitCAM defines the logical routings, aiding fast
and consistent data preparation and delivery of programs to machines,
documentation to manual assembly stations, and task and checklists to
all locations from printing to AOI to repair to box-build. The Aegis
software handles all AWS off-line machine programming and optimization
needs, manages balance line allocations, machine libraries while
creating the bill of process for each station and machine along the
entire route, for later use on the factory floor.
Commenting on the recent implementation, Chris Bowman, technical
director at AWS, said, “We have chosen the Aegis software to expedite
and control our advanced manufacturing processes and product data
definition for new product introductions. A key factor in the decision
to change to Aegis was their excellence and proven ability in machine
programming where the system takes full advantage of automatic, seamless
integration to the machines without the need for exporting and editing.
We didn’t see this anywhere else.”
"Aegis was the only provider that met all of our requirements and
provided all the front end applications for NPI. They can generate all
our machine programs, accept programs from legacy systems support the
widest range of file formats, create electronic work instructions, and
display them through web browsers. It was a pleasure to work with them,”
Bowman added. “Plus the Aegis Documentation Manager can cover the whole
factory floor, not just the front end processes.”
“AWS are looking to create a complete link across all business and
factory processes within one seamless system for optimum manufacturing,
and to build a more robust, technology-independent process defining
‘how’ products are to be built. In the UK and European contract assembly
market rapid NPI is a must, and a great differentiator,” said Peter
Clegg, business development director at Aegis Europe. “Their criteria
for evaluating and selecting Aegis came down to our ease of use,
intelligent interfacing and technical product depth, as well as
providing on-site training.”
About AWS Electronics
AWS Electronics, a UK based Contract Electronics Manufacturer (CEM),
with comprehensive and modern facilities for manufacturing PCB
assemblies, electrical and electronic sub-assemblies and finished
products, cable and wiring harnesses for the military, aerospace,
medical, rail and other demanding industries.
As part of a long-term investment programme into its people, equipment
and facilities, AWS has trained most of its staff to IPC 610 and IPC
620, to the most demanding level, class 3. The company has also invested
heavily into new equipment and training focusing on lead free assembly,
test and inspection, including sophisticated IT systems and development
of a major cable and harness assembly facility, and more recently in a
fourth very high standard surface mount PCB assembly line, to keep up
with demand that has grown by over 25% year-on-year for the past three
years. AWS remains a competitive force in the UK market, compared to
Eastern European and Far Eastern competition, because they offer a
powerful combination of constantly available dedicated expertise,
flexibility and service.
For additional information contact:
Shaun Black, Marketing Director
Aegis Industrial Software Corporation
Email:
sblack@aiscorp.com
Phone: 714.828.9730