As 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 and dependable services to streamline operations, reduce costs, and make your business more agile.
The Solution
Cimnet 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 solutions which span key business processes such as sales, engineering, collaboration, and manufacturing. We complement these solutions with dependable Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Services to make our customers outsmart and outperform their competitors.
NavipointTM
Enterprise 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
Navipoint is made up of three components: Navipoint Axis, Navipoint Applications and Navipoint Open Enterprise.
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 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.
CIMfactory
The 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.
Business Process Outsourcing
The Most Dependable Outsourced Services For the Global PCB Industry.
PCB companies worldwide are continuously forced to reduce costs, increase quality and efficiency and have required amount of redundancy for critical processes to stay ahead of competition. The industry needs dependable Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services to achieve these goals to continue to grow in face of stiff competition. BPO services from Cimnet are specially designed for PCB companies to help with an outsourcing capability of key knowledge based non-manufacturing cost-intensive business processes such as Quote Data Processing, Pre-CAM, CAM, Post CAM, and Product Engineering functions.