Zuken is trusted globally by leading companies to optimize their electrical and electronic engineering design and related manufacturing processes. Our unique combination of proven experience, technological expertise and agility, creates electronic design automation (EDA) solutions as well as computer aided engineering (CAE) solutions that are innovative, dynamic and powerful.

With over 30 years experience, Zuken has grown to become the world’s leading provider of EDA software and electronic product lifecycle management (e-PLM). Our solutions optimize the efficiency of electronics and electrical R&D, engineering, manufacturing, new product introduction (NPI), component purchasing and component engineering in the PCB/MCM/HIC market . Listed on Level 1 of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Zuken improves product quality and profitability for electrical and electronics manufacturers globally, from automotive to aerospace, communications to consumer electronics, power to heavy machinery and medical to military markets. With headquarters in Japan, we have development and support centers in 10 countries – including the US, Germany, UK, France, Italy, China and Taiwan – and are a trusted partner of more than 4,800 organizations, with over 45,000 individual licenses, worldwide.

Electronic Product Lifecycle Management – e-PLM (DS-2)
With more sophisticated products entering the market with ever shorter lifecycles, a unified solution is essential for profitability and growth. Zuken’s e-PLM solution fully unifies electronics engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain management into a single corporate business process. Created exclusively for electronic product manufacturers, it is the only solution that can truly bridge the gap between EDA and PCB manufacturing environments.

The design process is critical within the product lifecycle, as it determines 80%* of the total cost. Zuken's e-PLM solution starts at the design process, so it guarantees lower operating costs, reduced time-to-market and high product quality, delivering measurable benefits to the bottom line.

*Source: Baxton, Japan.

CR-5000 is Zuken’s scalable and robust PCB and advanced packaging layout suite created for the small to large enterprise market . I t incorporates the latest technology with a "Design for Manufacturability" methodology, which enables rules applied early in the design process to be maintained right through to manufacturing, ensuring products are right first time and manufacturable first time.

Zuken’s greatest innovation since CR-5000, CR-5000 Lightning is powerful, fully integrated high-speed design prototyping software. With a Design Process Oriented Architecture (DPOA), it effectively streamlines the PCB design environment by incorporating five core concepts: unified constraints, analysis engine unification, process orientation and frontloaded verification. These combine to enable the quick realization of right first time, high-speed PCB designs. CR-5000 Lightning’s DPOA also merges design and simulation, so design issues can be explored and resolved early on, significantly cutting development time while ensuring quality.

The increased efficiency CR-5000 Lightning brings to high-speed circuit design is greatly sought after by many of today’s leading-edge electronics manufacturers. Combining specific technical expertise from Japan, the UK and Germany, the unique CR-5000 Lightning DPOA provides the required inspection, analysis and verification features that support high-speed design at all stages of the manufacturing process, from circuit to board.

As one of the most powerful desktop PCB design solutions available, CADSTAR combines simulation with 3D environments and offers much more than traditional PCB design. CADSTAR delivers an extensive range of add-on technology through its internet-accessible libraries of over 200,000 components. CADSTAR provides invaluable capabilities such as 3D design tools, interactive and high-speed routing, variant management and more – delivering the productivity of a high-end solution at an entry-level price.

CADSTAR is Windows®-based, so it’s easy-to-use, ready-to-use and offers migration options to preserve legacy data. Its powerful price/performance coupled with the scalable front-to-back design environment, provides users with total flexibility in designing simple or complex PCBs.