Z-DAC Americas

Kent McLeroth & Yohei Tanaka, Zuken

Design tools for electronic, mechanical, and software design have been available for many years, but designing the product as a whole from the conceptual standpoint has, until now, been a largely manual process. The advent of System Planner changes that and may revolutionize the way forward-thinking companies design their products.

Ed Duranty, Zuken

We’ll explore the power of allowing your 3D mechanical CAD designs to constrain the placement and mechanical definition of your PCB in order to ensure the correct fitment. We’ll also explore the flexibility of allowing your mechanical engineers access to detailed information on your PCB, (both placement and signal information). We’ll also emphasize the collaborative nature of this powerful solution.

Yohei Tanaka & Steve Watt, Zuken

DFM Center is an advanced CAM tool that helps companies improve manufacturing yield. It provides the ability to front-load manufacturing rules to enable manufacturing feasibility checks early in the design process, reducing design spins and manufacturing waste. This session will explore ways DFM Center can help your company smooth the handoff from engineering to manufacturing.

Brian Gilman & Chris Hambleton, Zuken

Many of today’s PCB designs contain one or more FPGA devices.  The fan-out and routing of these devices is a key to completion of the design and will often dictate the number of routing layers required.  This presentation will focus on the tools and techniques available in Lightning to optimize this process.

Nik Kontic, Zuken

The presentation will discuss FPGAs/CPLDs as used in many market segments of electronics product design from automotive, through to industrial and commercial designs.  Allowing the quick adoption of the devices offered by the four major vendors, and managing the functional pin assignment is an important part of the electronic design process.

Griff Derryberry, Zuken

If you design boards for a living, your designs may be vulnerable to EMC-related problems. Even if you are not an EMC engineer, you need to recognize potential EMC pitfalls and how to avoid them. This session explores the basics of EMC and common problems you are likely to encounter. You will also learn how tools such as EMC Advisor and Lightning EMC can be employed as "virtual guardians" to watch over your shoulder as you design and help keep you out of trouble.

Humair Mandavia, Zuken

When working on a test circuit or complete PCB schematic, it’s important to have integrated access to analog/mixed simulation for verification. The results of the analysis could impact component specification, such as input voltage and power dissipation ratings.  We’ll study the use of Analog Designer to access SPICE simulation for your circuit and how to apply the checks of Circuit Advisor to verify component electrical requirements.

Nik Kontic, Zuken

CR-5000 Lightning will be able to support constraint re-use from re-use blocks from LT13 (Subject to final decision on release).  This session will introduce the flow of information, constraints defined in the re-use circuit and inherited to the design.

Sandy Jones, Zuken
Mike Oswald, Continental Automotive Systems

Each year we provide amazing tips and tricks that help you be more productive in your day to day job. This year we will deliver the same amazing tips with a twist. The challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to submit just 1 amazing tip or trick to share and demonstrate with the audience during the session. The person with the most applauded tip will win become the lucky recipient of the "Tips and Tricks Apprentice Award". Do you accept this challenge?

Kent McLeroth, Zuken

This is a roundtable discussion for tools administrators and engineering managers to discuss the challenges unique to managing multi-site engineering operations. Learn how other companies are dealing with the same problems you face, and gain new insight into alternative methods for managing your own environment.

Steve Chidester, Zuken

Each year, Zuken releases a new version of E³.series. Most of the enhancement requests come directly from our customers across many industries. This session will present the E³.series roadmap and strategic directions. Come and see what is planned for the future and have your questions answered.

Scott Juoni, Zuken

Understanding, visualizing and documenting design changes within a project is oftentimes a daunting task.  Whether the changes were planned or inadvertent they must be understood and validated before being accepted. We will explore how E³.Revision Management helps realize those changes through object comparison to produce and display results visually and textually.

Geoff Lydon, Zuken

When a project is well advanced, containing many sheets, it is often a time consuming and daunting task to modify data within a project. By using the new Table views, it is possible to easily and quickly modify Project data using “Excel” like functionality. This session will explore the use of these tables and the advantages to be gained from manipulating data within them.

Mike Petersen, Zuken

Is your company collecting groups of circuits that are almost the same, but not quite in your Sub-Circuit library? Would you like to pare it down but don't want to get rid of the ones that are almost the same because of a power supply change, voltage change, a couple of extra parts?  We'll show you how to simplify your design startups, get rid of all those messy little changes, and do a lot of project startup for you.  Turn your project over to E³.Configurator and let it do the work.

Uli Prottung, Zuken

In the development of electrical and electronic systems, “sketches” are often drawn at the beginning of a project to describe the communication between individual modules that define how a system should work. Over time the sketches are refined and defined by sub-functions that become part of the final schematic and wiring diagram. In this session we will see how E³.FunctionalDesign supports system development from the first sketches to the finished wiring diagram.

Wolfgang Heinrichs, Zuken

In today’s cable and wire harness designs, the amount of data and its ongoing changes due to spec or functional design changes and adjustments needs to be managed carefully. Zuken provides insight into managing and synchronizing this complexity between the design data itself and all the related information from the BOM, through to materials, to the integration into the PDM system.

Uli Prottung & Bernd Schlenk, Zuken

The integration is used for interfacing Liebherrs service tools, for customer specific documentation and training, for training of internal service people and monitoring of PLCs and error messages in their production assembly lines. The advantage is the usage of graphic documents instead of listings and tables.

Scott Juoni, Zuken

Your company is unique. You have tried and true methods. Implementing COTS CAD applications typically requires compromise, CAD application customization, or you hope and wait that the next release will provide the capability. This session offers an overview how you can extend E³.series capability through the standard application programming interface.

Khang Nguyen, Zuken

This presentation broadens the knowledge of implementing the E³.series environment within an IT infrastructure. Topics covered will include multiuser administration, database configurations, and installation setups.

Sandy Jones, Zuken

"Cookin with Zuken"
 
Have you ever wondered how all of the software ingredients of Zuken fit together?  As a sous-chef each librarian, designer or engineer has their individual ingredients they know they can use to that add to that perfect design.  It could be System Designer or Design Gateway and Scenario or it may just be Placement and Wiring, PREditor and Realize.  Individually they are great, when fully combined it’s a masterpiece.
 
This course will give you the Executive Chef Cookbook which is designed to bring all the ingredients of Zuken together in one amazing day.  We will put you through the paces in the Zuken Test Kitchen as we take you through the entire cooking process. 
 
Whether you are new to Zuken or have been using the tools for years, you are sure to benefit from this course.  At the end of the day you will no longer be a sous-chef, but will become the Zuken Executive Chef. This course is rated E for Everyone.

This is an action-packed session that takes designers through a wide range of CR-5000 tools. In this class the trainee will learn:

• GPM GUI Overview
  - Part Registration
  - Import Operations
  - Symbol Creation
  - CDB Export
• Part Verification in System Designer or Design Gateway
• Lighting Scenario
  - Adding Constraints
  - Simulation
• Board Generation
• Placement Wiring Module
  - Place parts
• Board Modeler Overview
  - Project Registration
  - Board Import
  - Collision Checking
  - Constraint Import
  - Board Export (changes back to Board Designer)
• Lightning Realize
  - Constraint Routing
  - Simulation
  - Export Routing back to Board Designer

Joe Richlen, Rockwell Collins

This session highlights the exchange of ECAD and MCAD data with Board Designer using IDF, Board Modeler, and other integrated interfaces.  Various methodologies and processes are in place today to manage electrical and mechanical data, and the presentation is intended to spur on discussion from the audience related to your own experiences and requirements.

Mary Ann Almond, Northrop Grumman

Cable assembly drawings at Northrop Grumman have stretched the normal definition of what a drawing is, and corresponding documentation for mechanical and electrical parts was separate. This session will review the problem and the innovative solutions we implemented using E³.series and Teamcenter Engineering.

Learn how Electro Motive Diesel used E³.series to develop an intelligent electrical point to point locomotive schematic with a intelligent database to automate downstream documentation. See how to use scripting to capture data and populate documents which were once manually created. Throughout the process, tedious and error-prone manual inputs were eliminated, consistency in documentation was achieved and the ability to pass information to other systems was greatly enhanced.

During this user-run session, attendees will review the purpose of the User Group and its activiites and have an open discussion on how to improve collaboration between the user community and the Zuken development team.