PCB Data Management Webinar

3. 3 © 2015 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Cadence confidential. PCB CAD Experts • Founded in 1989 • Cadence PCB reseller • Dedicated CAD software development team Nationwide Reach Over active customers Example Customers Data Management is in our DNA EMA Design Automation • 100’s of successful data management implementations • Regular speakers on PCB data management

4. 4 © 2015 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Cadence confidential. PCB design data is complex Current methods take too long and lead to errors It will improve quality and your time to market Of design time is spent manually searching for PCB related information 29%Up to Of design time is spent fixing data integrity issues 26%Up to of respondents cited complexity of PCB as their top data management challenge Manual or custom methods often don’t work and cant scale 44% * source: Aberdeen Group 2014 study 10%20% Reduction in product respins Decrease in overall PCB development time Why PCB Data Management

5. 5 © 2015 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Cadence confidential. Mechanical enclosure is managed in MCAD PDM (ex: Solidworks PDMworks) Released Product is managed in PLM system (ex: Windchill, Enovia, Arena) RISK PCB data is still managed in network drives!! Software is managed in standard rev control system (ex: clearcase, git, svn, etc) Common DM Environment

6. 6 © 2015 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Cadence confidential. • Collaboration and design / data management being done as an ad-hoc process outside the CAD tools – Emails – Conference calls / meetings – Notes – Shared drives – PDM / PLM • Drawbacks – None of the information or data is pushed back into the design environment for management and traceability – This can quickly become a management mess – System exist outside native CAD environment How is PCB Data Management Done Today? Typical Flow

7. 7 © 2015 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Cadence confidential. PLM / ERP New Part Info Unified ECAD Environment Unified ECAD Database External Design Team Internal Design Team PLM / ERP Parametric Symbol / Model Schematic | PCB FP Libraries | Datasheets | Simulation MCAD Tools MUST BE KEPT UNDER DATA Management – Single Source of truth

8. 8 © 2015 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Cadence confidential. • Enables Team Collaboration • Provides Administrative Control • Increased efficiency among teams • Supports internal process OrCAD Engineering Data Management (EDM)

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Editor's Notes

Hi Everyone and thank you for attending todays webinar. Today will be an introduction to OrCAD data management, or EDM.
During todays presentation I’ll talk about data management from an overall perspective, and I’ll also provide focus to how OrCAD CIP integrates into the data management flow. We’ll also look at OrCAD Library Builder within the scope of data management as well. Elements within the scope of data management
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Why should we care about pcb DATA management? A study done in 2014 by the Aberdeen group showed that Companies that employ data management processes improve their product quality and therefore have significant gains such as reducing time to market – on average a 10% gain in time to market according to the study The Study also saw that people who do not manage effectively are constantly fixing issues (reflected by 20% of time spent due to re-spins), which is time-consuming and costly So it’s a A big challenge – but why is pcb data so hard to control? Well… Some files can be binary or inter-related, bom’s, gerber data – all of these have relationships that must be handled effectively via Work In Progress How many times have you created symbols that were already generated? Or having to manually modify boms – or ended up sending the wrong gerber files from a different version of the board? Ultimately you need to have a quality infrastructure that can manage all the data easily and accurately.
In any environment where you find some level of data management, you’ll probably see a PLM or a PDM in place to handle the tasks of the product lifecycle. But While these provide a way to manage a released product, they don’t necessarily address the intricacies of ECAD issues (as we talked about in the previous slide). You can identify other specific areas of data control – for example the mechanical enclosure might be managed by a system that deals with that – or the software portion is controlled in something like Clearcase, but if you look at the ECAD portion there is a lack of viable options to competently address these management issues. The bottom line is – If the ECAD portion is not managed effectively it poses a huge RISK to the entire project
So how does data management at the ECAD level typically happen today? Collaboration is vital, but unless there is an internal process that is strictly adhered to files can quickly become a tangled mess. And - If communication needs to happen across teams this tangled mess can be even more difficult to sift through. Up until today there hasn’t been a solution that meets the needs
With a unified ECAD environment, necessary monitoring of Work In Progress can happen all within OrCAD. Starting with a shared, centralized ECAD database, PLM information can automatically flow into the ECAD database, ensuring that engineers are working with the most up to date information. Both internal and external design teams can be confident that they are gaining access to validated data.
The new OrCAD Engineering Data Management (EDM) is a comprehensive WIP (work in progress) data management environment for the OrCAD PCB design solution. Fully integrated within the OrCAD environment, and it enables your engineering design team take advantage of the time-to-market benefits gained from effective design data management. The solution also eliminates the challenges associated with managing files across multiple users. OrCAD EDM manages all WIP data including design files, PCB files, Gerbers, netlists, PDFs and files with any extension.

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