Mentor Graphics and PTC Deliver Industry's First Bi-Directional ECAD-MCAD Collaboration Capability
18 9월 2008 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Mentor Graphics Corporation, (NASDAQ: MENT), the market and
technology leader in printed circuit board (PCB) design solutions,
today announced delivery of the industry�s first design
collaboration capability between Electrical (ECAD) and Mechanical
(MCAD) design solutions enabling teams to use this solution from
the design inception to the manufacturing process. Based on the
ProSTEP iViP Association-approved electromechanical interchange
standard whose development was initiated and driven by Mentor,
Mentor Graphics� ECAD-MCAD Collaborator product enables
bi-directional, digital communication of incremental design changes
and automates the review and approval processes between the
respective domains. Today, companies across many industries are
incorporating more sophisticated electronics within more complex
mechanical form factors to address expanding customer requirements.
Electronics and high-tech companies, particularly consumer
electronics, are at the forefront of this trend. However, companies
in the automotive, medical device, aerospace and defense and
industrial industries are also experiencing these trends. To design
these products successfully, these companies need to break down the
organizational and technical barriers that have traditionally
limited design collaboration across disciplines. �Seamlessly
integrating the electronic and mechanical design processes
continues to become more essential for manufacturing companies,�
stated Ken Amann, Director of Research, CIMdata, Inc. �The merging
of electro-mechanical design (often referred to as mechatronics)
enables companies to more effectively and quickly develop products
in which electronics is the differentiating factor. Mentor Graphics
and PTC have developed new solutions, built on industry standards,
to enhance their joint level of ECAD-MCAD collaboration. Used
together, their solutions can help electronics companies reduce
electro-mechanical design conflicts and develop complex products
faster.� PTC is the first supplier of mechanical design solutions
to adopt this standard and implement complementary collaboration
capability. Together, PTC and Mentor offer the industry�s first
complete end-to-end collaboration solution between MCAD and ECAD
designers. These capabilities will significantly improve design
process efficiency and cycle times by replacing paper-based methods
and static file formats with standards-based processes and
easy-to-use graphical visualization in both the mechanical and
electrical design domains. �As a supplier of design automation
software, Mentor�s strategy is to extend our focus beyond just PCB
and ECAD design into areas that can improve the efficiency of a
company�s complete electronic product development process,� said
Dan Boncella, director of marketing of Mentor Graphics Systems
Design Division. �The design of these products requires continuing
communication between the electrical and mechanical domains as the
design proceeds and changes in either domain are proposed. Our
ECAD-MCAD Collaborator automates this process and delivers needed
functionality to our customer base.� �Our customers� products
increasingly involve tighter linkages between electrical and
mechanical design, and the lack of integration and collaboration
capabilities in their current tools makes it hard for them to meet
quality, cost and time-to-market goals,� said Chad Hawkinson, vice
president of solutions marketing, PTC. �These new products from PTC
and Mentor Graphics will overcome these obstacles and enable our
joint customers to deliver more tightly integrated
electromechanical products to market faster.� Driven by Suppliers,
Their Customers and Standards The collaborative effort to define
and develop the ECAD-MCAD collaboration methodology was first
introduced by Mentor Graphics at the ProSTEP conference in 2005 and
has been actively driven by Mentor Graphics. PTC and a select set
of ECAD-MCAD customers also actively participated in a three-year
definition effort. In early 2008, the EDMD (Electrical Design
Mechanical Design) schema was accepted and published by ProSTEP as
a standard for incremental, bi-directional communication of
proposed changes between ECAD and MCAD systems. Based on this EDMD
standard, Mentor Graphics and PTC have implemented the industry�s
first true collaboration capabilities. It is anticipated that
additional MCAD and ECAD suppliers will adopt this standard and
implement collaboration functionality. ECAD-MCAD Design
Collaboration ECAD and MCAD systems have existed in separate
domains for many years and have evolved to optimize their own
domain�s productivity and functionality using their own data
constructs and formats. Communication between the respective tool
sets has previously been through bulk data interfaces with little
capability to identify and update incremental changes. The efforts
of Mentor Graphics and PTC have produced collaboration tools in
both domains that enable mechanical and electrical engineers to
propose incremental design changes, have those changes viewable in
an easy-to-use tool, enable analysis/review/comment/approval of the
proposed changes, and finally, upon acceptance, update the
incremental changes into the respective databases. The initial
capability focuses on commonly used geometric objects such as board
outline, components and holes. Availability Design collaboration
between Expedition Enterprise� and Board Station� XE PCB design
flows through Mentor�s ECAD-MCAD Collaborator product, and PTC�s
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 ECAD-MCAD Collaboration Extension is
available now. To find out more, please attend a joint webinar
being broadcast live September 23 or on demand by going to the
following link:
http://www.pcbshows.com/webinars/events/mentor/ecad.shtml. About
Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) is a
world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions,
providing products, consulting services and award-winning support
for the world�s most successful electronics and semiconductor
companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over
the last 12 months of about $850 million and employs approximately
4,500 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005
S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web
site: http://www.mentor.com/. Mentor Graphics and Board Station are
registered trademarks and Expedition Enterprise is a trademark of
Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are
the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.
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