The Frontline Product Suite

The Frontline product suite delivers

comprehensive and scalable support for

preproduction operations, opening a vertical

data channel to the PCB Design and Assembly

industries and integrating horizontally with

fabrication equipment and machinery on the

production floor. Frontline provides a unified

data format for all preproduction stages, a true

open system approach and seamless data

integrity.

Frontline’s product line comprises integrated

software products that automate the entire

preproduction process for PCB manufacturing,

from preparing a quote, to process planning

and CAM, all the way to the production floor.

Accessory Tool Creation• Automatically create punch shapes

from designer-defined outlines.• Define repeatable sets of punch tools

or accessory materials (such as coverlay and stiffeners) that can be combined for different PCBs in the panel, each with its own tooling hole set.

• Automatically panelize stiffeners added after lamination.

• Create dimensioned drawings based on predefined templates for the production documentation set.

Rigid-Flex Production• Define different outlines for rigid and

flex layer sets for use in different analysis, editing and DFM functions.

• Run rigid-flex checks that combine flex analysis tools with checks on the interface area between the rigid and flex parts of the board.

Optimal Flex PCB Production• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

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Tooling Hole PlacementGenFlex’s Tooling Hole Placement algorithm and interactive Tooling Holes Editor enable operators to add dedicated tooling hole sets to groups of steps according to production requirements. Operators can verify the accuracy of results by running Tooling Hole Checks.

About Frontline PCB Solutions

For minimal system requirements please visit our website at http://www.frontline-pcb.com/category/GenFlex_Features

Minimal System Requirements• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Frontline PCB Solutions is the world leader in preproduction CAM and engineering software solutions for the PCB industry. Frontline draws on proven technologies from Orbotech and Mentor Graphics to create new standards in vertical and horizontal integration for the PCB industry. Frontline builds on the strategic vision, knowledge base and hands-on track record of two market leaders, as well as over three decades of experience and the largest installed base of front-end solutions in the world, of over 8500 seats. • State-of-the-art analysis and editing for flex and rigid-flex circuit boards

• Fast global revision through dedicated flex DFM tools

• Advanced flex CAD tools improve yield and reduce job cycle time

• Automatic panelization for flex boards, with interlocking and any angle rotation

• ODB++ for seamless integration with design and assembly

• From the world’s leading CAM and engineering software vendor

The complete CAM

solution for flex and rigid-flex manufacturing

GenFlex

®World’s Leading CAM Solutions

www.frontline-pcb.com

Orbotech USA: Tel: 617-480-8208 • Orbotech Europe: Tel: (32)-2-727-4863 • Orbotech Pacific: Tel: (852)-2827-6688Orbotech Japan: Tel: (81)-3-3280-3878 • Frontline Headquarters Israel: Tel: (972)-8-932-2183

Intelligent & manufacturable data

InCoupon®InStack ®InPlan®GenFlex ® InPlanFlex® InSight PCB®®InCAM InSolver®Genesis2000

Dimensioned drawing

Rigid-flex board with different profile per layer

Tooling hole placement

GenFlex

®

The complete CAM

solution for flex and rigid-flex manufacturing

Using highly sophisticated algorithms, GenFlex supports your most complex and time-consuming layout editing tasks, ensuring the highest quality and the manufacturability of your production tools.

GenFlex easily integrates into your production environment with its modular design and user-friendly GUI, increasing yields and lowering production costs.

Based on ODB++, the most intelligent CAD/CAM format available today, GenFlex delivers smooth end-to-end data exchange integration and communication. ODB++ captures all CAD/EDA database, PCB fabrication and assembly knowledge into a single database.

Ensured Editing SafetyGenFlex's easy-to-use Graphic Editor eliminates operator-introduced design errors. Based on an online netlist and DRC technology, its highly intuitive interface reduces training time, increases productivity, and displays all affected layers in a process at once. CAD-style functionality contributes to optimum yield growth. Graphic Editor tools include rounding busses, moving complete pad stacks with their related connections, connecting line bundles, offset polyline and an interactive spacing repair tool

Automatic PanelizationGenFlex's Automatic Panelization package consists of two parts:• The Automatic Panelization Layout

Optimizer finds the optimum position for flex PCBs on the panel in just seconds by combining automatic complex shape interlocking with the best rotation angle to achieve optimum material usage.

GenFlex, the world's first CAM solution for flex and rigid-flex printed circuit board manufacturers, streamlines design analysis, editing, tooling and workflow management to maximize preproduction speed and quality.

GenFlex gives you all the advantages of CAM with dedicated solutions to meet your specialized flex PCB production needs.

Design for Manufacturability of Flex PC boardsGenFlex's powerful DFM (design for manufacturing) tools fully automate manual editing sessions, reducing errors and cycle time. In addition, GenFlex’s dedicated flex PCB preproduction tools simplify data and optimize production while significantly increasing yields. • Smooth joints and surfaces –

Automatic curving or smoothing of signal layer data, as needed.

• Coverlay optimization – Fully automated coverlay, covercoat and solder mask optimization, slashing hours of work to minutes.

• Tiedown creation – Automatic tie-down creation by increasing pad size, adding vector extensions or extending the SMD length.

• Coverlay tool creation – Automatically optimized coverlay tooling includes automatic tweaks to meet punch, drill or rout specifications.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

The Flexibility you Need. The Ingenuity you Want.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

The Dedicated CAM Solution for Flex and Rigid-Flex PCB Makers

Advanced Engineering

and CAM Solutions for

Flex and Rigid-Flex

Frontline PCB Solutions

is the only provider of

complete preproduction

flex solutions –

GenFlex® for CAM and

InPlan®Flex for

Engineering – helping

manufacturers

overcome today’s top

challenges in flex and

rigid-flex PCBs:

• Achieve seamless

integration and data

flow between

front-end

departments

• Significantly reduce

preproduction cycle

time

• Cut costs through

optimized stackup

and panel design,

and increased yield

• Guarantee quality by

improving accuracy

and consistency

• Run state-of-the-art

DFM, panel and

stackup algorithms

for flex

Connect bundled lines

• The Panelization Wizard helps operators automatically apply a panelization scheme to the PCB and create a panel. The Wizard places dynamic text, tooling and registration targets, and plot stamps according to user-defined rules. An index number for each array or PCB can be automatically printed on the panel layer for easy part identification and tracking.

Round bus

Smooth Joints

Tie down generation

AnalysisThe GenFlex Design Analyzer gives engineers the freedom to review designs before, during and after tooling. Its intuitive, interactive layout facilitates preproduction reviews and manufacturability analysis.• Flex analysis checks construction

restraints for flex boards and reports problems related to stiffeners, air gaps in adhesives, pre-bend areas in flex boards, I-beam trace overlaps, sharp trace joints, and conductive silver masks.

• Panel gold plating checks check that all gold-plated tabs are correctly connected to the appropriate gold plating bars in the production panel.

• Tooling holes checks analyze defined tooling hole sets and ensure that they do not interfere with production and are not misinterpreted in the production process.

Coverlay optimization

Automatic panelization

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

What can GenFlex® do for

your Production Line?

GenFlex is expertly

designed to meet the

special challenges of

flex board production -

better, faster and more

efficiently than ever.

GenFlex gives you:

• Uncompromising

design integrity

• Optimum operator

efficiency and speed

• Minimum revisions

• Maximal yields

GenFlex's

top-of-the-line CAM

delivers highest quality

flex PCB production in a

fraction of the time.

GenFlex

®

The complete CAM

solution for flex and rigid-flex manufacturing

Using highly sophisticated algorithms, GenFlex supports your most complex and time-consuming layout editing tasks, ensuring the highest quality and the manufacturability of your production tools.

GenFlex easily integrates into your production environment with its modular design and user-friendly GUI, increasing yields and lowering production costs.

Based on ODB++, the most intelligent CAD/CAM format available today, GenFlex delivers smooth end-to-end data exchange integration and communication. ODB++ captures all CAD/EDA database, PCB fabrication and assembly knowledge into a single database.

Ensured Editing SafetyGenFlex's easy-to-use Graphic Editor eliminates operator-introduced design errors. Based on an online netlist and DRC technology, its highly intuitive interface reduces training time, increases productivity, and displays all affected layers in a process at once. CAD-style functionality contributes to optimum yield growth. Graphic Editor tools include rounding busses, moving complete pad stacks with their related connections, connecting line bundles, offset polyline and an interactive spacing repair tool

Automatic PanelizationGenFlex's Automatic Panelization package consists of two parts:• The Automatic Panelization Layout

Optimizer finds the optimum position for flex PCBs on the panel in just seconds by combining automatic complex shape interlocking with the best rotation angle to achieve optimum material usage.

GenFlex, the world's first CAM solution for flex and rigid-flex printed circuit board manufacturers, streamlines design analysis, editing, tooling and workflow management to maximize pre production speed and quality.

GenFlex gives you all the advantages of CAM with dedicated solutions to meet your specialized flex PCB production needs.

Design for Manufacturability of Flex PC boardsGenFlex's powerful DFM (design for manufacturing) tools fully automate manual editing sessions, reducing errors and cycle time. In addition, GenFlex’s dedicated flex PCB preproduction tools simplify data and optimize production while significantly increasing yields. • Smooth joints and surfaces –

Automatic curving or smoothing of signal layer data, as needed.

• Coverlay optimization – Fully automated coverlay, covercoat and solder mask optimization, slashing hours of work to minutes.

• Tiedown creation – Automatic tie-down creation by increasing pad size, adding vector extensions or extending the SMD length.

• Coverlay tool creation – Automatically optimized coverlay tooling includes automatic tweaks to meet punch, drill or rout specifications.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

The Flexibility you Need. The Ingenuity you Want.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

The Dedicated CAM Solution for Flex and Rigid-Flex PCB Makers

Advanced Engineering

and CAM Solutions for

Flex and Rigid-Flex

Frontline PCB Solutions

is the only provider of

complete

preproduction flex

solutions – GenFlex®

for CAM and

InPlan®Flex for

Engineering – helping

manufacturers

overcome today’s top

challenges in flex and

rigid-flex PCBs:

• Achieve seamless

integration and data

flow between

front-end

departments

• Significantly reduce

preproduction cycle

time

• Cut costs through

optimized stackup

and panel design,

and increased yield

• Guarantee quality by

improving accuracy

and consistency

• Run state-of-the-art

DFM, panel and

stackup algorithms

for flex

Connect bundled lines

• The Panelization Wizard helps operators automatically apply a panelization scheme to the PCB and create a panel. The Wizard places dynamic text, tooling and registration targets, and plot stamps according to user-defined rules. An index number for each array or PCB can be automatically printed on the panel layer for easy part identification and tracking.

Round bus

Smooth Joints

Tie down generation

AnalysisThe GenFlex Design Analyzer gives engineers the freedom to review designs before, during and after tooling. Its intuitive, interactive layout facilitates preproduction reviews and manufacturability analysis.• Flex analysis checks construction

restraints for flex boards and reports problems related to stiffeners, air gaps in adhesives, pre-bend areas in flex boards, I-beam trace overlaps, sharp trace joints, and conductive silver masks.

• Panel gold plating checks check that all gold-plated tabs are correctly connected to the appropriate gold plating bars in the production panel.

• Tooling holes checks analyze defined tooling hole sets and ensure that they do not interfere with production and are not misinterpreted in the production process.

Coverlay optimization

Automatic panelization

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

What can GenFlex® do for

your Production Line?

GenFlex is expertly

designed to meet the

special challenges of

flex board production -

better, faster and more

efficiently than ever.

GenFlex gives you:

• Uncompromising

design integrity

• Optimum operator

efficiency and speed

• Minimum revisions

• Maximal yields

GenFlex's

top-of-the-line CAM

delivers highest quality

flex PCB production in a

fraction of the time.

The Frontline Product Suite

The Frontline product suite delivers

comprehensive and scalable support for

preproduction operations, opening a vertical

data channel to the PCB Design and Assembly

industries and integrating horizontally with

fabrication equipment and machinery on the

production floor. Frontline provides a unified

data format for all preproduction stages, a true

open system approach and seamless data

integrity.

Frontline’s product line comprises integrated

software products that automate the entire

preproduction process for PCB manufacturing,

from preparing a quote, to process planning

and CAM, all the way to the production floor.

Accessory Tool Creation• Automatically create punch shapes

from designer-defined outlines.• Define repeatable sets of punch tools

or accessory materials (such as coverlay and stiffeners) that can be combined for different PCBs in the panel, each with its own tooling hole set.

• Automatically panelize stiffeners added after lamination.

• Create dimensioned drawings based on predefined templates for the production documentation set.

Rigid-Flex Production• Define different outlines for rigid and

flex layer sets for use in different analysis, editing and DFM functions.

• Run rigid-flex checks that combine flex analysis tools with checks on the interface area between the rigid and flex parts of the board.

Optimal Flex PCB Production• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

GenFlex

®

The complete CAM

solution for flex and rigid-flex manufacturing

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Tooling Hole PlacementGenFlex’s Tooling Hole Placement algorithm and interactive Tooling Holes Editor enable operators to add dedicated tooling hole sets to groups of steps according to production requirements. Operators can verify the accuracy of results by running Tooling Hole Checks.

About Frontline PCB Solutions

For minimal system requirements please visit our website at http://www.frontline-pcb.com/category/GenFlex_Features

Minimal System Requirements• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Frontline PCB Solutions is the world leader in preproduction CAM and engineering software solutions for the PCB industry. Frontline draws on proven technologies from Orbotech and Mentor Graphics to create new standards in vertical and horizontal integration for the PCB industry. Frontline builds on the strategic vision, knowledge base and hands-on track record of two market leaders, as well as over three decades of experience and the largest installed base of front-end solutions in the world, of over 9500 seats. • State-of-the-art analysis and editing for flex and rigid-flex circuit boards

• Fast global revision through dedicated flex DFM tools

• Advanced flex CAD tools improve yield and reduce job cycle time

• Automatic panelization for flex boards, with interlocking and any angle rotation

• ODB++ for seamless integration with design and assembly

• From the world’s leading CAM and engineering software vendor

The complete CAM

solution for flex and rigid-flex manufacturing

GenFlex

®

World’s Leading CAM Solutions

www.frontline-pcb.com http://china.frontline-pcb.com/

Intelligent & manufacturable data

InCoupon®InStack ®InPlan®GenFlex ®® InPlanFlex® InSight PCB®®InCAM InSolver®Genesis2000

Dimensioned drawing

Rigid-flex board with different profile per layer

Tooling hole placement

Orbotech America: Tel: 617-480-8208 • Orbotech Europe: Tel: (32)-2-727-4863 • Orbotech China & Taiwan: Tel: (852)-2827-6688Orbotech South East Asia: Tel: (65) 6567 5657 • Orbotech Korea: Tel: (82) 31 410 3939 • Orbotech Japan: Tel: (81)-3-6367-2505 Frontline Headquarters: Tel: (972)-8-932-2183