Teamcenter Integration for Mentor Graphics PADS Fact Sheet
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Siemens PLM Software Teamcenter integration for Mentor Graphics PADS Integrating PADS printed circuit board design into your Teamcenter PLM environment Benefits Summary end-of-life disposition. The integration • Manages entire PCB product Teamcenter® software’s integration for enables users to store and manage all of lifecycle Mentor Graphics’ PADS PCB design system their part library, PCB design, collaboration enables users to capture and manage their and manufacturing data in Teamcenter – • Provides a single source of part library, schematic, printed circuit board Siemens PLM Software’s digital PLM product and process data (PCB) layout, bill of material (BOM), fabrica- platform. • Fosters environmental tion, assembly and visualization data in Teamcenter menus, which are embedded in compliance initiatives Teamcenter – the world’s most widely used the PADS user interface, allow the user to product lifecycle management (PLM) • Facilitates collaboration and automatically log-in to Teamcenter and platform. concurrent engineering open, save, check-in and check-out design initiatives Managing the electronics product lifecycle data. Adhering to the Teamcenter mecha- Teamcenter’s integration for PADS provides tronics data model, design teams are • Aligns ECAD design with a comprehensive solution for the entire assured their ECAD data is accurately cap- product requirements electronics product lifecycle that extends tured, consistently managed within the from initial inception through creation, Teamcenter environment and kept in synch analysis, manufacturing, service and with other product definition data. www.siemens.com/teamcenter TEAMCENTER Teamcenter integration for Mentor Graphics PADS Business challenges Providing a single source of product and Facilitating collaboration and concurrent • Integrating ECAD process process knowledge engineering into product development Teamcenter’s PADS integration enables To facilitate the flow of accurate design process users to import, export and manage their data across multiple domains, the ECAD part library data, as well as access, Teamcenter integration enables collabora- • Managing ECAD data in the manage and archive PCB design data in a tive design by leveraging IDF and IDX context of the overall single secure location. On an enterprise (EDMD) design data exchange formats. product configuration level, the integration allows widely dis- The formats enable the sharing of informa- • Verifying of environmental persed PCB design teams to manage tion relating to board outlines, component compliance released design data, collaborate and exe- placements, keep-out areas and other cute design changes across the entire placement restrictions. Managed in • Coordinating ECAD/MCAD product lifecycle, thereby minimizing Teamcenter the IDX format supports the collaboration change-related rework. ability to pass incremental design data, as • Establishing communication well as allow both the ECAD and MCAD At the user level, the Teamcenter integra- within and across a multi- designers to accept or reject changes, and tion supports the ability to open and save site supply chain incorporate change notes or comments into native design files, access approved parts, the information being shared. • Ensuring that ECAD design manage vendor part data, collaborate with implementation meets mechanical engineers, generate visualiza- Electrical engineers can pass this informa- customer requirements tion files, share fabrication and assembly tion as 2.5D/3D elements to mechanical data with suppliers and create BOMs con- engineers to simulate and analyze various Features taining both mechanical and electrical conditions, including interferences, ther- • Store, access and manage parts. To reduce interpretation errors, BOM mal, vibration, shock, dust and humidity. PADS objects (such as parts, data can be displayed as “packed” or Sharing data for this type of cross domain schematic, layout, BOM) as “unpacked” while Teamcenter’s compare analysis helps improve quality and increase items in Teamcenter capabilities can be used to quickly identify product reliability. • Create new product any differences between BOM revisions. To quickly diagnose and understand poten- revisions or version updates When ECAD design and part library man- tial manufacturing errors, users can employ for work in progress agement procedures are brought under design-for-assembly analysis tools and pow- • Establish security and data Teamcenter control, they can be incorpo- erful ECAD viewer technology. These access control policies in rated into structured workflows and capabilities allow users to investigate and Teamcenter effective change management processes. By identify potential issues early in the design managing part data in Teamcenter, product process, thereby eliminating unnecessary • Manage designer’s selection manufacturers can reduce part duplication, scrap and rework. and use of approved parts prevent use of obsolete or unapproved The ECAD viewer’s graphical navigation fea- • Establish relationships parts, assign compliance data and focus tures enable design teams and suppliers to between Teamcenter procurement from approved vendors. interactively view, cross-probe and anno- objects and engineering tate schematic and PCB layout data without BOMs the use of an expensive authoring tool. • Share PCB design data Many frequently used annotations are auto- across engineering domains matically translated and displayed using the through open interchange language specified by the user’s system. formats • View, annotate and mark-up ECAD data in a collaborative environment • Associate and trace product requirements to PCB designs TEAMCENTER Complete requirements management Supported functions and traceability • Open, save, check-in and check-out Teamcenter’s PADS integration enables objects to/from Teamcenter users to leverage Teamcenter’s powerful • Extract components and attribute requirements management capabilities. information PCB hardware and software functions can be associated with specific design require- • Generate bill of material (BOM) ments providing complete requirements • Place PADS objects under enterprise-wide traceability throughout the entire PCB revision control lifecycle. • Manage PADS objects in structured Supported objects workflows Teamcenter’s integration with Mentor Graphics PADS supports: • Options • ECAD parts library - Facilitate enterprise-wide ECAD library • Circuit card assembly (CCA) information management • Components on a CCA (BOM) - Manage PADS objects in change processes • Layout design data - Link PADS objects to product/project • Schematic design data requirements • Secondary data (fabrication and - Leverage ECAD viewer and markup assembly) capabilities with suppliers • MCAD and analysis interchange files - Analyze layouts against assembly rules • Layout files in native tool ASCII file format • Teamcenter neutral format files for PCB visualization Contact Siemens PLM Software Americas +1 314 264 8499 Europe +44 (0) 1276 413200 Asia-Pacific +852 2230 3308 www.siemens.com/plm © 2015 Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. 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