AltiumLive 2017:Simplifying Design Data Management in a Serial World

Linda MazzitelliSegment Solution Director

San Diego, CA,Oct. 3-4, 2017

ECAD Design Data Management

Where We Are / Where We’re Going

Industry Initiatives, Challenges and Trends

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Improve efficiency, productivity, minimize cycle time, improve

quality, and enhance your ability to troubleshoot problems to

prevent escaping defects.

Global Product Development

Right information to the right people at the right time.

Lean Product Development Integrated Product Creation

Integrated tools, design teams and processes remove adhoc approaches to reduce

overhead / risk

Supports ‘design anywhere’ requirements

Project Plans

Process Workflows

Problem Solving

Documents

Engineering

Calculations

Cad Part

TemplatesCLASSIFIED PARTS

And

FEATURE LIBRARIES

Technical Documents

HardwareMechanical

Enclosure

Product

Creation

Corporate Systems & Data

PRODUCT

ManufacturingSupplierconnections

BusinessManagement

Compliance

Metrics

ElectronicSoftware

Chip

Design

Verification

Implementation

Package

PCBApps

Middleware

Run/Real-

Time Kernel

Drivers

Flex-Rigid

Substrate

Assembly

Harness

Design &

Integration

Co-Design

Implementation

Author

Implementation

Verification

Verification

Electrical

Signoff

Enterprise Initiatives

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Product Challenges

Global Product Development Challenges

Communicate via PowerPointCommunicate via email

Transfer ZIP files

Mechanical Design

Electrical DesignSoftware Design

Managed Design Communication

Mechanical design

Electrical designSoftware design

Automating communication and data integration

PCB Data Management StudyTop Three Challenges of Managing PCB Design

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

Controlling user access

Incomplete, inconsistent or incorrect PCB data sent to manufacturing

Searching for information too complicated/time consuming

Identifying data for reuse

Creating accurate BOMs

Managing integrity/configurations of data sets between engineering teams

Getting the right data to the right people at the right time

Managing multiple ECOs

Exchanging data with different sites, 3rd parties, & partners

Integrating PCB design data with existing DM tools (PLM, ERP, PDM)

Complexity of PCB data

Aberdeen Group, “Need to Save PCB Design Time?” June 2011

ECAD Enterprise Design Data Management

Where We Are / Where We’re Going

Industry Initiatives, Challenges and Trends

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Global Product Development Challenges

Consolidated BOM Management

Generating consolidated ECAD and MCAD BOM’s generally requires manual efforts and is time consuming and error prone. No ability for ‘where-used’

Single Source of Truth

ECAD data management on local and/or shared drives with non-standard naming conventions, lack of revision control/WiP data lifecycle mgt

Ease of Data Sharing

Data visualization between ECAD and MCAD authors and the extended design team is difficult due to many different CAD tools, reducing the ability to catch errors before prototype

Too Many Prototypes

Ability to confirm updates and communicating issues electronically is difficult. History is lost and escaping defects are missed early in the design cycle

Connecting ECAD Data to the Enterprise

Design team collaboration at the project members desktop

Both CAD and non-CAD team members have access to what they want, when they want it

Workgroup Design Team Collaboration

Right people with access to the Rightversions of the Right data

Easily locate and re-use designs

Eliminate manual ECAD-MCAD BOM data entry errors

On demand, online design reviews / reduces prototype spins

Traceability during Partner Collaboration

• Lifecycle Managed ECAD Datawith secure centralized vaulting of the native

design and derived content

• Automated Import of BOM files provides a consolidated source for the complete

Electromechanical BOM

• Automated Visualizationenables parallel team collaboration while the

design is in progress

• Design Data Comparisonfor evaluating, managing and retaining a history

of all project design changes

• Secure Sharing of Design Datawith external partners

W H Y I T M AT T E R S

W H AT I T M E A N S

1 Source: PTC survey of Electro-Mechanical

Collaboration Seminar participants, January 2006

Automated BOM Structure Definition (EBOM)

Native Altium schematic

BOM structure in WCBOM generation during ECAD check-in

• Creation/Updates of ECAD BOM from ECAD Schematic or PCB during check-in

• Automatically propagate Quantity, Part Name, Part Number etc. to WC

• ECAD driven BOM structure to generate full electromechanical BOM

• Variant and changed BOM comparison

• Remove dependency on spreadsheets and other manual entry methods

Data Sharing and Collaboration

• Enables non-CAD team members to view WiP designs

• Facilitates online Design reviews via Markups and Annotations

• Intelligent, cross-discipline visual navigation/cross probing

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Prevent Escaping Defects

Object differences (attributes)

Image differences (graphics)

Multiple design abstractions

•Within an ECAD discipline

• Revs of a Schematic

• Revs of a Layout

• Revs of an Artwork

•Between ECAD disciplines

• Layout vs. Schematic

• Layout vs. Artwork

•Between ECAD and MCAD

• Layout vs. 3D Mechanical Assembly

ECAD Enterprise Design Data Management

Where We Are / Where We’re Going

Industry Initiatives, Challenges and Trends

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Where We Are Today

• Altium Designer Check-in, Checkout, Release, Revise in WC

• Automated BOM Generation from Altium Designer to WC

• Automated Viewable Generation of native Altium Designer files

• Data comparison of Altium Designer files with PTC Creo Parametric MCAD data

Where We Are Going

• Altium Vault-to-Windchill Check-in, Checkout, Release, Revise in WC

• Automated BOM Metadata synchronization from Altium Designer to WC

• Data comparison of Altium Designer files with PTC Creo Parametric MCAD data

PTC Windchill API’sPTC Windchill

API’sPTC Windchill API’s

ECAD Enterprise Design Data Management

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What You Will See In the Demo

• Altium Designer Template Files

• Altium Designer Check-In to Windchill

• Automated BOM Generation and Comparison

• Automated Viewable Generation from native Altium Designer files

• Cross data selection and Comparison for Team Collaboration

ECAD Enterprise Design Data Management

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Enterprise Design Team Integration

Redline Back Annotation

Electrical Engineer(Schematic)

Creo View ECAD

Design Validation / Verification

Creo View ECADCompare

Change Identification& Analysis

Windchill•WiP Vault

•Rev. Control

Team notification

Electronic Signoff

Enterprise data access

Change management

Design Validation

EDA file

EDA Data Normalization

Creo View ECAD Adapter or ECAD WGM

PCB Designer(Layout)

MCAD Design Engineer

ECAD Workgroup Manager

Contract Mfg

Project Manager

Component Management

Test, QA

• Lifecycle-Managed ECAD Data

• WC BOM Structure Import

• Automated Visualization Generation and Data Compare

• Enterprise team visibility

Thanks for your Attention!

Questions?