Frontline doubles sales of its InPlan engineering system in 2006

Israel, February 1st, 2007 – Frontline PCB Solutions announces that sales of its InPlan automatic PCB engineering system doubled in 2006. InPlan is now deployed in over forty PCB shops worldwide.

2006 saw a sharp increase in market leaders and multi-site plants choosing InPlan as their multi-site engineering solution. “With a growing number of western shops shifting parts of their production to the Pacific, our customers need synchronized engineering processes for their multi-site operations,” says Mossi Oz, Frontline’s co-president. “InPlan is the only engineering solution today that works in a multi-site environment to enable seamless and efficient cross-world planning and manufacturing.”

InPlan integrates seamlessly with a plant’s existing ERP/MRP solutions enabling a two-way data exchange, with no added implementation time. A fully developed, comprehensive PCB engineering system, InPlan combines sophisticated engineering know-how with state-of-the-art pre-production planning tools to design the optimal manufacturing process for PCB jobs, in a rapidly changing environment.

InPlan reduces planning and manufacturing cycle time, saves on material costs and standardizes engineering. Fully integrated with Frontline’s world-leading CAM products – Genesis 2000 and GenFlex – InPlan creates powerful new synergies, helping manufacturers meet customer demands for speed and flexibility. InPlan maintains an electronic knowledge base, based on rules and electronic specs and enables engineering concurrency and multi-site operations. InPlanTM outputs the BOM, Traveler and CAM instructions, all revision controlled for effective change management.

About Frontline PCB Solutions
Frontline PCB Solutions, an Orbotech - Valor Company, is the leading global provider of pre-production CAM and engineering software solutions for the PCB industry. With over two decades of industry experience, Frontline has the largest install-base of field-proven front-end solutions in the world and is committed to delivering cutting-edge products that increase yield and reduce pre-production costs. Frontline’s R&D and management divisions are headquartered in Israel, with worldwide sales and support through Orbotech and Valor subsidiary offices around the globe.

The Frontline product suite delivers comprehensive and scalable support for pre-production 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 pre-production stages, a true open system approach and seamless data integrity.

Frontline’s product line comprises integrated software products that automate the entire pre-production process for PCB manufacturing, from preparing a quote to process planning and CAM, all the way to the production floor. Frontline’s featured products are Genesis 2000 - the industry-leading, PCB pre-production CAM system enhanced with powerful design for manufacturing tools; GenFlex - a dedicated CAM system for flex and rigid-flex PCB manufacturers; InPlan - a fully integrated, automatic engineering system for optimal PCB manufacturing workflows; and InStack  - an automatic stackup designer.

For more information please contact:

Efrat Bar-Sella

Marketing Communications Manager

Frontline PCB Solutions

Tel: +(972) 8 9322183 ext. 139

efrat@frontline-pcb.com