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Manual methods used to integrate various processes and teams are time-consuming and introduce risk, making time-to-market goals difficult to calculate and attain. Now, Altium enterprise solutions is providing a way through the implementation of process workflows, for organizations to automate their traditionally manual processes including library and design data management (version/revision control and lifecycle management), and extended design team collaboration as a part of a complete product realization digital thread.

Altium enterprise solutions can help you to accelerate your product development cycles and is uniquely positioned to enable organizations of all sizes to easily standardize their company processes and workflows as part of their digital transformation strategy.

Register now to see how Altium enterprise solutions can help you meet your electronic product design goals – whether you are just getting started or are already on the path to your own ECAD digital transformation.

PLM system methodologies have traditionally lacked a direct integration with ECAD design system data. As a result, the only way for ECAD organizations to manage the entire product data structure was to manually enter their data into their PLM system, leading to increased time, potential data inconsistency, and risk of human error. Altium enterprise solutions address this by providing an automated connection between your Altium ECAD data and your PLM system, eliminating manual efforts and ensuring all data is verified prior to release.

Altium Enterprise Server-to-PLM Integration makes it easy to create a new project and PLM data structure, automatically synchronize ECAD component and PLM part data and publish your source, fabrication, and assembly data to PLM. This data management automation saves you time, assures data consistency, and eliminates errors compared with manual PLM data entry methods.

Register now to see how the Altium Enterprise Server-to-PLM Integration can help save you time and reduce risk by streamlining the synchronization and publishing of Altium data with PLM.

Collaborative product development between the Electronic and Mechanical design domains brings unique challenges. Today, most companies are still using a file-based methodology (STEP, IDF, DXF, IDX) for creating and exchanging data between the two domains. This, for the most part, requires that the entire database is exchanged multiple times, resulting in README files, marked-up PDF’s and in-person meetings to review the updates and ensure they are understood and implemented correctly. Currently, this process takes time, is error-prone and the history of updates is lost after the project is complete.

Altium CoDesigner changes all that by electronically connecting the Altium and MCAD domains together via a server-managed process that is a literal ‘push-pull’ between both sides. Not only does it eliminate the need for creating and sending entire files for each collaboration, but all updates are managed electronically, with incremental updates communicated after the first baseline push. This makes it much easier and faster to send and receive files between the two applications. With the MCAD CoDesigner, Altium and MCAD users no longer need to manually communicate, as updates can be easily previewed, accepted or rejected between team members. In addition, the history of all changes and communications is retained and stays with the project for its lifetime.

Finding the right component has always been a challenging task for Engineers. Years ago searching in books from distributors was the only way and once found, all component information had to be typed in manually. Today, while the process has been automated, looking for parts still requires searching in multiple systems (ECAD, PLM, web) to ensure you have the best, parametrically compliant part for your design while also ensuring that the supply chain and information is current and that the final selection will meet your company’s criteria.

Altium Enterprise solutions enables you to bring visibility of all of the various part options directly to the engineer's desktop, giving them visibility into compliance, cost, availability, and lifecycle information at the click of a button from sources such as PLM, ECAD data, and manufacturer's datasheets. In addition, parts can be compared side-by-side with highlighted differences to ensure the engineer is making the right choice for that project.

Whether you are an individual designer or a team of people, there are always others in the value chain that you rely on to turn your design from intent to reality. Making this happen means you have to collaborate and share. One of the problems is that the way this is done today can be cumbersome, error-prone and inefficient — we haven’t progressed much beyond phone calls and emails, until now.

Today, designers typically use their EDA software defaults as a starting point and modify dimensions, units, grid settings, colors, and other environmental aspects as required. When starting projects, users generally will put in the effort each time and start from scratch with very little reuse of known-right settings, layer stacks, schematic sheet title blocks, etc. Creating design data on the fly like this invites inconsistencies and risks to your projects. Templates in Altium Designer and Altium 365 help to eliminate these risks by allowing individual designers or design teams to start projects from a trusted point, with consistent design data. Join us for this informative webinar to see how Altium Designer utilizes templates throughout the design process.

Whether you are an individual designer or a team of people, there are always others in the value chain that you rely on to turn your design from intent to reality. Making this happen means you have to collaborate and share. One of the problems is that the way this is done today can be cumbersome, error-prone and inefficient — we haven’t progressed much beyond phone calls and emails, until now.

Leveraging circuit simulation in the schematic capture environment is a powerful tool that enables projects to be completed sooner and reduce the cost of hardware prototypes, while providing an extra layer of assurance that products are robust, reliable, and of the highest quality. Join us for an informative webinar to see how the simulation capability that is included in Altium Designer can turbocharge your design productivity.

The design process often requires repetitive work with tedious tasks. Altium Designer 21 represents a better way to design by revitalizing long standing functionality and improving the user experience, as well as performance and stability, based on the feedback from our users. These improvements streamline existing design tasks and empower you to complete sophisticated rigid and rigid-flex designs with realistic 3D modeling. In addition, Altium 365® continues to play an increasingly significant role with the newest release of Altium Designer. Come take a look.

Printed Electronics is emerging to become as common as 3D printing. With this fast-emerging technology, new possibilities have come into the manufacturing arena, allowing engineers and designers to develop products in markets never before realized. New substrates and inks are being developed to address various applications, from biomedical to aerospace and consumer electronics. With the emergence of many contract manufacturers possessing this capability, the cost is competitive. Quick-turn prototypes and volume production are now all possibilities, and with Altium 365 you stay connected directly with your manufacturer throughout the design process. Join us for this informative webinar to see how Altium Designer natively addresses the design of Printed Electronics.