Mar 09, 2012 
YAMAHA MOTOR IM and AEGIS Software announce that a technology agreement has been reached with the two companies.
AEGIS is the first MES supplier to join YAMAHA’s new 3rd party certification program. As part of this certification, AEGIS will have access to YAMAHA’s API information providing mutual customers with a solution for programming their equipment offline.
“We are pleased to have AEGIS as a technology partner. YAMAHA is committed to ensuring seamless integration to the NPI and MES systems favored by our customers. This partnership provides the large Aegis and YAMAHA customer base assurance that their systems will interoperate effectively.” said Richard Vereijssen, IM Product Manager.
“AEGIS shares YAMAHA’s commitment to freeing our mutual customers from any integration concerns. We look forward to working together to bridge our NPI and MES systems to the entire YAMAHA offering. Our two companies understand the value customers place on a singular, seamless information stream in their factory. ” adds AEGIS CEO, Jason Spera.
About YAMAHA Motor IM
After starting in 1974 the industrial robot business started with machines to help mechanize its own Yamaha factories, Yamaha began developing surface mounters in a new business unit Intelligent Machinery. OEM sales of these surface mounters began in 1984, followed by the launch of the first model “YM4600S” under the Yamaha brand name in 1987, marking Yamaha’s full-fledged entry in the surface mounter market. Since then the business has continued to grow, reaching cumulative wholesales of 10,000 units in February of 2001 and 20,000 units in March of 2006. June 10, 2011 Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. proudly announced that the Company’s surface mounter sale has reached the impressive number of 30,000 machines. The 30,000th unit sold was one of our Yamaha “YS24” models.
Yamaha’s surface mounters are highly acclaimed in the market for their “module concept” that enables them to keep pace with the trend toward smaller and more diverse electric/electronic parts being mounted on circuit boards. In recent years the demands in the market are for high value-added machines that help manufacturers reduce costs, use factory space more efficiently and save energy.
Yamaha Motor IM has created a strong business in the surface mounter industry that enables design and engineering, manufacture, sales and service to be conducted in one comprehensive system. Furthermore, the Company has used its core technologies in the areas of servo-motor control and image recognition technology for vision (camera) systems to develop solder paste printers, printed circuit board inspection machines, flip chip hybrid placers and other peripheral machinery. This allows Yamaha Motor IM to offer a full line of machines for electric/electronic parts mounting and propose optimum production-line makeup to answer the diversifying needs of today’s manufacturers.
Yamaha Motor IM has sales and service offices in Japan, China, Southeast Asia, Europe and North America provide a truly global sales and service network that will safeguard best in class on-site sales & service support for clients.
http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/global/industrial/smt/
Aegis Software provides single-vendor information systems for high-reliability manufacturers, providing a critical complement to enterprise-level ERP and PLM capabilities. Aegis’ Manufacturing Operations Software (MOS) fully manages the manufacturing information environment, from process planning and launch, quality and test management, through manufacturing execution and shop floor materials control, to operations analytics and real-time dashboard systems.
