Collaborative Engineering

Today’s products are changing faster than ever before, and innovations and technologies continuously drive and accelerate those changes. Smarter, connected, adaptable products are far more complex to design, engineer and manufacture, and require a collaborative engineering approach to be successful. Too often, members of a product team are segregated by tools and software, increasing risk, errors, and frustration. A seamless, data-driven digital transformation can enable and accelerate how companies create products that fundamentally change our lives.

An integrated PLM system enables users to collaborate on all product data, including specification, intellectual property, validation, and verification information. With all electrical, mechanical, software, design, and manufacturing activities they increase efficiency and productivity. The result is a robust collaborative environment powered by a single source of truth that enables teams to get the product right the first time.

Modern electronics manufacturing has many challenges: supply chain uncertainty, longer lead times, and the increasing costs of materials and components that change by the minute. There are also constant staffing fluctuations, resource constraints, and the high price of energy. On top of all these problems, manufacturers also manage the complexity of global manufacturing with multiple capabilities, partners, and suppliers while delivering a high mix of customized products. They must balance it all while managing quality vs. yield and planning for future production needs.

Why make your factory smart?

Smart manufacturing is the digital strategy that encompasses the entire manufacturing process, from PCB design and factory floor optimization to enhancing the flow of materials between warehouse and shop floor to incorporating customer feedback data to help you plan new designs. Whether you have one plant location or multiple sites in a global enterprise, smart manufacturing makes it all work flawlessly together, from design to production, driving higher efficiencies throughout the manufacturing process.

Today's electronics industry often experiences product designs that begin with great promise but lose their way due to unforeseen problems. The physical model performance is unpredictable, and specifications continually change. Design decisions have unintended consequences, thermal and material issues are discovered late, and technical solutions don't perform as planned. As a result, costs escalate, exciting features are dropped to save time, and often the best ideas can't be evaluated in time.

The solution for these challenges is a more reliable way to predict product performance through simulation. Design teams need simulation and test capabilities early in design to quickly learn which ideas work best and validate them before they build anything.