This solution is the industry’s first to ensure safe collaboration between the printed circuit board (PCB) design team and the manufacturer
First release of online design for manufacturability (DFM) analysis service
Siemens recently announced the launch of a cloud-based innovative software solution-PCBflow, which can bridge the electronic design and manufacturing ecosystem, further expand Siemens’ Xcelerator™ solution portfolio, and also provide printing The interaction between the PCB design team and the manufacturer provides a safe environment. By quickly performing multiple design for manufacturability (DFM) analyses based on the manufacturer’s capabilities, it can help customers accelerate the development process from design to production .
PCBflow is supported by the industry-leading Valor™ NPI software, which can perform more than 1,000 DFM inspections at the same time, which can help PCB design teams quickly find manufacturability issues. Subsequently, these problems are prioritized according to their severity, and the position of the DFM problem can be quickly located in the CAD software, so that the problem can be easily found and corrected in time.
PCBflow is Siemens’ first step towards a cloud-based PCB assembly solution. The cloud-based solution can help customers automate the process from design to manufacturing. As a leading force covering the entire process from design to manufacturing, Siemens is the first company to provide online fully automatic DFM analysis technology to the market, which can help customers optimize designs, shorten front-end engineering cycles, and simplify communication between designers and manufacturers .
Dan Hoz, General Manager of Valor Division of Siemens Digital Industrial Software, said: “PCBflow is the ultimate product design tool. It can use a closed-loop feedback mechanism to fully support the collaboration between designers and manufacturers to promote continuous improvement in the development process. By synchronizing design and manufacturing capabilities, it can help customers reduce the number of PCB revisions, shorten the time to market, optimize product quality, and increase yield.”
For manufacturers, PCBflow can help simplify the process of introducing customers’ products and provide customers’ designers with comprehensive PCB manufacturing knowledge, thereby facilitating collaboration between customers and manufacturers. In addition, due to the manufacturer’s ability to share digitally through the PCBflow platform, it can reduce tedious telephone and e-mail exchanges, and help customers focus on more strategic and valuable discussions through real-time customer communication.
Nistec is a user of Siemens PCBflow. Nistec’s CTO Evgeny Makhline said: “PCBflow can deal with manufacturability issues early in the design phase, which helps us save time and costs from design to manufacturing. With PCBflow, we no longer have to spend time. A few hours, just a few minutes to complete the DFM analysis and view the DFM report.”
As a software as a service (SaaS) technology, PCBflow integrates the strict security standards of Siemens software. Without additional IT investment, customers can reduce the risk of use and protect intellectual property (IP).
PCBflow can also be used in conjunction with the Mendix™ low-code application development platform. The platform can build multi-experience applications, and can also share data from any location or on any device, cloud or platform, thereby helping companies accelerate their digital transformation.
PCBflow is simple and easy to use. It does not require additional training or expensive software. It can be accessed from almost any location, including mobile phones and tablets. In addition, PCBflow also provides designers with a wealth of DFM report content (including DFM problem pictures, problem descriptions, measured values and precise positioning), so that designers can quickly locate and optimize PCB solderability issues and other DFM issues. The report supports online browsing, and can also be downloaded and saved as a PDF format for easy sharing. PCBflow supports ODB++™ and IPC 2581 file formats, and plans to provide support for other formats in 2021.
Post time: Jun-30-2021