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Februar 20, 2020
Modular Design with Traceability
A modular electrical design comes with its own set of unique challenges. However, the basic principles of the solution are the same. With this in mind, let’s think modular when it comes to a modular design.
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März 19, 2019
Tech Tip on the Circuit Block Manager
Modular circuit design allows engineers to create a set of electronics building blocks that can be reused and shared between products. The Circuit Block Manager facilitates reuse management and change control of a library of circuit blocks in a convenient and organized manner. This brief video shows how simple it is to use a hierarchical schematic containing circuit blocks as the basis for a modular circuit block library within DS-CR.
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Dezember 06, 2018
Modular Board Design: A Platform Approach to Increase Product Variants and Decrease Components
It sounds like a paradox: electronics manufacturers can increase variation within a product line while using fewer electronic components. Reuse keeps product costs low, increases product flexibility and customization. Far from paradoxical, the approach is quite doable today through a process called modular board design coupled with predictive analysis numbers returned by the Internet of Things.
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Modular board design coupled with predictive analysis results gathered from the Internet of Things keeps product costs low and increases flexibili...
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Oktober 04, 2018
How Connected Products and Modular Design Can Improve Your Product Quality
Using feedback from products in the field to continuously improve design modules used as the basis for product development can increase product performance and reliability and reduce development time.
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Using feedback from products in the field to continuously improve design modules used as the basis for product development can increase product pe...
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Juni 21, 2017
Predictive Failure Analysis Can Improve Product Quality: The Reality - Part 2 of 2
I recently talked on predictive failure analysis at the PTC LiveWorx 2017 conference. There was a lot of audience interest, so I thought I’d share some of the things I discussed. This is the second of two posts on this subject.
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We all know that manufacturing yields and costs are the driving force behind product development, rather than product quality.
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März 17, 2016
Circuit Modular Reuse Best Practices
In my previous post in this series about effectively reusing design modules to increase product quality and decease development time, I challenged you to think about how well you’re making use of existing design modules and why getting better at this could be a competitive differentiator.
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In my previous post in this series about effectively reusing design modules to increase product quality and decease development time, I challenged...
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März 11, 2016
Are you Making the Most of Modular Design With Design Reuse? Part 1
In this two part series of blog posts, I’m going to be looking at reuse with modular design in PCB development, and how you can streamline your methodology to reduce design time, reduce design errors and increase product quality.
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Although we’ve been talking about it for years, in PCB design it has yet to catch on in quite the same way despite there being a host of benefit...