Managing Your PCB Work-In-Progress Data

The recent trends of shorter product lifecycles have resulted in increased customer expectations that crave quick delivery of feature-rich products. Electronic companies that haven’t progressed their design process and remain stuck with the conventional way of managing their ECAD data find it to be very costly and inefficient. With market pressures that leave no margin for error, electronic companies that don’t address the needs of today’s complex design cycle management can be very vulnerable to the slightest disruption. Competing is no longer on one front, but on all of them; whether it is customer service, the niche you service, how intimate you are with your customer, or how well you are leveraging technologies to run a lean and mean ECAD data management process. Not only that, but in many segments, what once were areas of differentiation, have merely become the cost of entry.