Connect Group NV<\/a> is an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) contractor that provides printed circuit board (PCB) assembly and cable assembly services. When it acquired several European electronics manufacturers with locations in Spain, China and Mexico, it needed to standardize and unify manufacturing operations across all company sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt wasn\u2019t an easy task,\u201d says Wouter Peene, operations manager for Connect Group. \u201cWe had machines from different vendors at each site. All of our engineering and testing departments were using different software and a lot of manual processes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n None of the company\u2019s existing solutions could support the entire operation because they lacked interfaces to many of the machines and could not generate the required documentation. \u201cWe needed an end-to-end solution that would serve all our production sites,\u201d says Peene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since Connect Group was already using Valor Process Preparation<\/a> software in some of its factories, the company decided to deploy it company-wide. \u201cValor Process Preparation allows us to connect to all of our machines<\/a> as a company-wide solution,\u201d Peene explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Connect Group also adopted the comprehensive Valor Parts Library component database to accurately simulate each component\u2019s shape. \u201cUsing Valor Parts Library helps us eliminate costly design errors before production starts,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n