Collaborate visuallyDesigning and manufacturing today’selectronic products is a global effort thatinvolves multiple tools and processes. Toavoid problems late in the product lifecycle,take-to-market teams must be able toreadily share information and easily commu-nicate design and manufacturing issues.

Teamcenter’s ECAD visualization solutionenables widely dispersed product teams tointeractively share data, visually identifyproblems and graphically document issues on an enterprise basis. As a result, product teams and yourentire design chain are able to communicate design intent, verify design and manufacturing issues,produce higher quality PCB prototypes and shorten development cycle times.

View data from multiple toolsInternal growth, external acquisitions and outsourcing strategies often require supply chains to use awide variety of PCB design tools that store and represent data differently.

To facilitate communications and collaboration among product teams,Teamcenter uses openstandards-based data formats that support more than 40 of today’s most widely used, commerciallyavailable ECAD formats.

Your product team members and manufacturing partners can use Teamcenter’s ECADViewer tobrowse and highlight entities within the PCB physical layout without having to employ a dedicatedPCB design authoring tool.

Shorten design validation timeIn many companies, electrical engineers and PCB designers are located in separate facilities – makingit difficult and time consuming to monitor progress or verify layout constraints. Teamcenter’s ECADViewer makes it easy to interactivity investigate a variety of design issues, including how to alignconnectors, place and orient components, adhere to restricted areas and identify signal, power andground routing patterns.

Teamcenter ECADViewerPowerful, easy-to-use viewer for intelligent ECAD visualization and mark-up

BenefitsLeverage visual collaboration toshorten product development

View data from multiple toolswithout the need to purchasethese tools

Shorten engineeringverification time

Eliminate errors by increasing cross-discipline communications

Reduce fabrication scrapand rework

Accelerate time-to-volumemanufacturing

Compress debug and repair time

Business challengesCollaboration among widelydispersed product teams

Unifying supply chains that usemultiple toolsets

Sharing PCB design andmanufacturing issues in the contextof the design data

Capturing and documenting PCBdesign changes

SummaryThe Teamcenter® ECADViewer allows widely dispersed electronic design and manufacturing teams to communicate and visuallycollaborate on product issues across the entire product lifecycle. Supporting a wide variety of ECAD tools, its powerful visualization andmark-up features increase productivity by improving communications and enabling product team members to better understand howproduct issues affect them. This completely integrated viewer makes it easy to access data stored in Teamcenter for use in changemanagement and other workflow processes.

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Reduce fabrication scrap and reworkProduct teams often find it difficult to capture fabrication and assembly rules and communicate thisinformation to PCB layout tools. Discovering fabrication problems late in the process causesunnecessary scrap and rework. By using Teamcenter’s ECADViewer, your fabrication teams can identifyproblems much earlier, including determining whether multiple traces are too close together foruniform etching or whether too much copper in one area will cause plating problems. Just asimportantly, the ECADViewer enables fabrication teams to share this information with the design teambefore PCB layouts are released.

Capturing, documenting and verifying PCB design changesIn addition to viewing and sharing the data, the ECADViewer enables your product teams to mark-updesign or fabrication issues with all appropriate annotations. A set of standard PCB design textmessages have been predefined and translated into multiple languages.When team members open aPCB visualization file containing one of these predefined messages, the message’s text is automaticallytranslated to the default language of the computer that opened the file.

This robust markup capability helps team members document the nature of their design changesand highlight specific details so that everyone involved in the design process clearly understandsthese issues. As changes are incorporated into the design, product teams can use the ECADViewer toidentify and document these changes, as well as to indicate what other aspects of the design or layoutare affected.

Complete electronic lifecycle management solutionSiemens PLM Software provides Teamcenter solutions that can be scaled to your company’s growingPLM requirements, including:

• Single source of product and process knowledge that enables companies to ensure that all of their designand visualization data is stored and accessible on an enterprise basis

• Global collaboration capabilities that provide universally accessible viewing and markup functionality forcollaborative review and approval processes across the electronics product lifecycle

• Requirements management capabilities that improve requirements visibility and compliance throughoutthe electronics product lifecycle

ConfigurationContact your Siemens PLM Software account representative for supported ECAD tools andsoftware configurations.

FeaturesExamine board outline

Display component pads andfootprints

Highlight routing and componentdata

Mark-up and redline design issues

Measure and interrogate data forvalidation and reporting purposes

Store visualization and mark-up datain a single, secure web-accessibleknowledge source

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