Ucam Xpert — Next Generation CAM Solution

Meet the all-new Ucam Xpert — meticulously designed from the ground up to deliver unmatched speed, seamless intuitiveness, and effortless productivity.
Packed with powerful innovations like Job Tree Local, Panel Xpert, DRC Xpert, and AI Start.
Specifically designed to make switching from any other CAM system as easy and seamless as ever

• JobTree
• AI-Start
• FlowGuide
• Attribute Editor
• DRC Xpert
• Panel Xpert

 

JobTree

Efficient Data Management and Tracking

JobTree (UJT) offers an organized, visual representation of the job structure, making it easy to search and navigate. 

• Streamlined Data Processing: Maintains the structure of CAM data by organizing it into distinct production steps and creating comprehensive links between them.
• Enhanced Traceability: Tracks all critical changes with timestamps and operator details, ensuring complete accountability.
• Improved Workflow Clarity: Provides a clear, visual overview for managing even the most complex job structures.
• Data Integrity Assurance: Uses a self contained storage system that copies all essential data (e.g. fonts, coupons) to prevent inconsistencies.
• Workflow Integration: Fully integrated with Ucam Xpert workflow and automation products for consistent and repeatable CAM processing.

JobTree ensures efficient job management, improving traceability and simplifying the CAM workflow.

Benefits:

• Structured data, Data in a tree structure and all information stored in a database.
• Comprehensive Job Storage, consistency across all workstations by centralizing important settings.
• Reduces risk of errors, simplifies data handling and modifications automatically applied on all steps.
• Improved reliability and accountability: Controlled data handling and systematic change tracking throughout the process.

 

AI-Start

Integrated AI Technology in CAM Workflow

AI-Start automates the entire data import process, allowing users to focus on critical tasks and significantly reducing manual input.

• Streamlined Data Organization: Maintains the processing structure of CAM data by organizing it into distinct production steps and establishing comprehensive links between them.
• Enhanced Traceability: Tracks all key changes with timestamps and operator details, ensuring complete accountability.
• Reliable Data Consistency: Features a self-contained storage system that copies essential data (e.g., fonts and coupons), preventing inconsistencies and errors.

With AI-Start, your CAM workflow becomes smarter, faster, and more reliable.

Benefits:

• Saves time and reduces errors by automating the input process.
• Ensures consistency with customer-specific layer naming and registration.
• Simplifies complex data handling, making it accessible even for less experienced users.

 

FlowGuide

Guided Automation for Job Preparation

Provides step-by-step guidance for operators through job preparation processes.

• Can run automatically or manually.
• Provides step-by-step guidance for operators through job preparation processes.

Benefits:

• Reduces operator errors by providing clear, guided workflows.
• Improves efficiency with a flexible combination of automated and manual tasks.
• Increases productivity by standardizing job preparation processes across teams.

 

Attribute Editor

Features:

• Efficient attribute handling.
• All-in-one approach to view, remove, add or modify attributes.
• Handles job, layer, aperture and object attributes.
• Usable for predefined attributes in the setup and custom attributes on the fly.
• Direct overview of attribute names and values available on the layer in plane1.
• Selects all objects which carry the selected attribute and reports the count and object type in the list.

Benefits:

• Fastest handling of attributes, preventing unnecessary switches between features.
• Intuitive GUI, no training needed.
• Easy handling of custom and predefined attributes.

 

DRC Xpert

User Focused Design Rule Checks

DRC Xpert delivers user-centered, high-precision DRCs that instantly highlight manufacturing issues

• Customizable checks tailored to deliver crucial, detailed information
• Targeted checks, e.g., spacing between BGA pads for enhanced accuracy
• Make a repair and immediately check with localized DRC
• Graphical reporting for better understanding
• Continuously improved checks based on direct user feedback

Benefits:

• Minimizes design errors by focusing on critical areas with customizable checks.
• Streamlines issue resolution, enabling faster repairs and immediate rechecks.
• Enhances decision-making with easy-to-understand graphical reports.
• Saves time by delivering fast, accurate results based on user-specific needs.

 

Panel Xpert

Effortless Panel Design and Optimization

Achieve efficient and tailored production design with advanced tools for custom assembly panels:

• Clustering Support: Enables improved placement of multiple PCBs for enhanced efficiency.
• Intelligent Layout Suggestions: Automatically optimizes PCB positioning to maximize productivity.
• Powerful Coupon Placement Tools: Simplifies the integration of coupons into production panels.
• Live Preview: Provides real-time visualization of production panels for unmatched precision and accuracy.
• Extensive Customization: Offers pre- and post-processing scripts for fully tailored workflows.

Streamline your PCB placement and panel design process with intelligent and customizable solutions.

Benefits:

• Maximizes panel space utilization, reducing material waste and costs.
• Speeds up panel design by leveraging a library of ready-made templates.
• Ensures high accuracy and control, reducing the risk of costly errors.
• Improves production quality by allowing real-time previews and adjustments.

 

 

The Ucam Xpert seat is also highlighted by these features:

• YELO Copper Adjuster
• YELO Legend Adjuster
• YELO Mask Adjuster
• Tombstone and Solder Escape Prevention
• Secure Etch Compensation with Horns
• Parallel Processing, 64 bit

More features that make Ucam Xpert stand out from other CAM seats: 

• Paneliz8tor
• Visual HyperScript
• Visual HyperTool

 

YELO Copper Adjuster

YELO is short for 'Yield Enhancing Layout Optimizer'. This feature automatically adjusts PCB layout and improves manufacturability. YELO:

• Significantly improves board layouts within minutes
• Cuts back your CAM cycle time by up to 30%
• Achieves superior production yields
• Delivers more reliable PCBs
• Slashes production cost on every batch

YELO Copper Adjuster fixes annular rings as well as copper-to-copper and copper-to-drill/rout clearances fully automatically. It can bring copper widths in plane areas up to the desired specification, or simply removes them when the netlist allows it. 

AI techniques find clever layout optimizations within the constraints of the design in a fraction of the time a human would need.

Copper Adjuster’s outstanding optimizations stem from a vast library of automatic layout edits, each of which can be allowed or disallowed individually to suit your customer’s expectations.

• Remove non-functional pads on inner layers
• Move traces, even and split them when necessary
• Expand via and component pads
• Fix rings for plated slots 
• Expand/Shrink via holes
• Move via pad stacks 
• Shave regions and pads
• Shave Complex Pads
• Neck traces
• Neck pads
• Widen/eliminate copper widths
• ...

 

YELO Legend Adjuster

Legend ink on copper pads results in unreliable boards, clipping results in unreadable texts, PCB height differences cause
ink bleeding, etc. To counter these issues, we have developed YELO Legend Adjuster, as a part of the 'Yield Enhancing Layout Optimizer' package. 

YELO Legend Adjuster features automatic text/non-text identification, comprehensive text placement checks and dedicated, easy-to-use tools to adjust the size and the position of texts, hassle-free.

YELO Legend Adjuster features:

• Split view for text and non-text elements
• Select/Deselect by using left/right mouse button
• Backup layer provided when data is changed
• Pre-defined parameter sets
• Dedicated, easy-to-use tools for making text adjustments:
  • Real-time verification during manual text modification
  • Distance limitation for fast and easy text repositioning
  • Text scaling with automatic line width adjustment
  • Guided word area view
• Automatic text identification
• Silk DRC to locate clearance issues to drill, mask or copper
• Move texts to better suiting positions
• Resize entire component frames
• Clipping objects still violating the specified values

YELO Legend Adjuster benefits: 

• Fully automatic text and frame modifications
• Improving readability of legends to meet customer requirements
• Slash setup-time using parameter sets
• Comfortable and easy-to-use GUI
• Time saving tools for text modifications

 

YELO Mask Adjuster

Yield Enhancing Layout Optimizer Mask Adjuster is used to: 

• Avert mask printed on solder pads
• Prevent solder starvation
• Avoid shorts to foreign copper
• Alleviate the solder mask process
• Reduce manual interventions for assembly procedure
• Optional: Tombstone and Solder Escape Prevention

YELO Mask Adjuster benefits

• Most comprehensive mask adjuster
• Unrivaled adjustment scope
• Fully automated
• Improvement of mask for the assembly process
• Prevent solder starvation
• Block shorts

Download the YELO product flyer

Download the YELO presentation here

You can now watch the recorded Ucamco Webinars about YELO and other interesting topics here. 

 

Tombstone and Solder Escape Prevention

Prevent Tombstone Effects by automatically equalizing copper areas.

Significant reduction of solder escape into holes and on traces.

 

Secure Etch Compensation with Horns

SEC, short for Secure Etch Compensation, is a yield-improving compensation tool with unique functionality to ensure minimum clearances.

An etchant affects the copper image in very complicated ways. The shape of copper features subtly influences the etching. Secure Etch Compensation applies different compensation factors to different copper shapes. 

• Different spreads on different feature types
• Different clearances between different feature pairs
• Full spread where possible and local correction to maintain clearance
• Fully automatic! 
• Store and retrieve Parameter Sets for fast and easy handling
• Original data is saved as backup and for on-screen reference
• SEC is suitable for all PCB types

Download the SEC flyer here

Download the SEC presentation here

Why add Horns? 

Etchant rounds the corners of all copper objects. This is fatal for very small SMD pads. SEC now adds Horns to protect critical SMD corners, with the right shape to protect them in your process. 

• Local shaving to guarantee clearance
• Easy-to-use interface and simple setup
• Fully automatic
• Huge time-saver vs. manually modifying layers

Benefits

• Pass end-customer inspection procedure with dedicated copper spread values for SMDs and pads
• Meet the exact width requirements for special tracks like impedance or coils 
• Simplify etching by trimming copper regions to make space for compensating nearby tracks and pads 
• Simple to exclude texts, logos or impedance traces from compensation
• Slash setup-time using parameter sets based on e.g. copper thickness or customer specifications
• Perfect retracting of modifications made by SEC saving them within the job data; easily return to the original data
• Higher yield due to special treatment of critical objects
• Fabricate denser geometries
• Improving your etching results, saving money while increasing quality 

 

Parallel Processing, 64 bit 

• Parallel Processing and its highly efficient algorithms split up CPU-intensive CAM tasks (large data sets) between various CPUs of a multicore workstation and compares the smaller tiles on different logical processors. Parallel Processing delivers unsurpassed functionality, speed and capabilities at the CAM engineer's fingertips, enabling tasks to be completed in a fraction of the time needed by other CAM systems. The more CPUs on the workstation, the faster the software. 
• The 64 bit core engine addresses more computer memory and allows high layer count jobs or massive data volumes to process without a hitch. 

 

Paneliz8tor

Intelligent PCB panelization for Rigid, Flex and HDI PCBs in Ucam Xpert. 

Download the Paneliz8tor flyer here

Download the Paneliz8tor presentation here

 

Visual HyperScript

Easy way to automate Ucam Xpert operator actions. 

Download the VHS manual here