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April 24, 2020
Working Remotely with DS – Design Data Management Tools
The world that we all live in has been changed by the Covid-19 outbreak. Stay at home orders and social distancing significantly impact the way we live our daily lives. Working remotely presents a whole new set of challenges for engineers and the companies that employ us. We now work on company supplied-laptops that typically connect back to the corporate network through a VPN.
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April 21, 2020
Legacy Data Management and Migration with CR-8000
In today’s global value chains, data exchange and re-reuse are vital to support collaboration and productivity. But most data formats are proprietary. For any organization with an extensive database of ECAD data, the need for data migration will eventually arise.
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Januar 15, 2019
Tech Tip: Component Lists with Destination Matrix
The destination matrix enables convenient viewing and editing of a component list that has part variants.
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Januar 08, 2019
Tech Tip: Database management using E3.CopyDatabaseEntries
Component management is a big part of the design process spanning multiple library instances. The library management tools like E3.CopyDatabaseEntries are available in E3.series to automate much of the manual work. CopyDatabaseEntries has been a trusted tool for many years for a large number of E3.series users. The biggest advantage of the tool is ...
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Oktober 05, 2018
Connect Your Component Library to the Supply Chain
Take a walk in the engineer’s shoes: I need an 80 MHZ network controller for my new project and I found one in the PLM/PDM system. That was easy. Now a quick check in the procurement database to do a price and availability check. So far so good, now on to the component engineering system to see if there are any possible lifecycle issues with a 10-year minimum requirement. It’s my lucky day, no issues and it’s a company-preferred part with an ECAD library instance.
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Design engineers must have the ability to make intelligent component selections involving critical supply chain information without having to leav...
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Januar 23, 2018
Tech Tip: Generating Where-used Reports in DS-CR (formerly known as DS-2)
One of the more powerful capabilities of a good data management system such as DS-CR (formerly known as DS-2) is searching and the ability to generate reports. A great example is the ability to generate Where-used information. These types of reports are extremely useful when performing impact assessments where ...
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One of the more powerful capabilities of a good Data Management system such as DS-2 is searching and the ability to generate reports. A great exam...
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Oktober 26, 2017
Ethernet Emerges as Communications Platform for Next Generation of Vehicles
Each new generation of automobiles has an increasing number of electronic systems that require communications with other vehicle systems at ever higher speeds. The proliferation of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) with fully autonomous vehicles on the horizon has greatly increased the amount of bandwidth that must be transferred between the many processors, cameras, radar units, display head units, etc. on current and next-generation vehicles...
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As vehicles transition to higher levels of autonomous driving, networking requirements are growing at a rapid rate. The top contender to meet thes...
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September 15, 2017
Does the Release Process to Manufacturing Keep You Up at Night?
Have you ever finished generating the manufacturing release package for the latest product design and then it occurred to you that something may be wrong? Imagine, it’s Thursday night and you just finished a nice dinner with the family. Your daughter’s soccer team won and the Broncos are playing the Chiefs tonight. It will be great to relax and enjoy the game.
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Have you ever finished generating the manufacturing release package for the latest product design and then it occurred to you that something may b...