“Desktop” versus “Enterprise”. Which is for you?
Questions to ask yourself:
Are you part of a large electronics company with your design team spread all over the world?
Do you have a huge corporate library and data management infrastructure?
Are you a specialist in only one area of the PCB design process and depend on the rest of a large team to fill the others?
Or, are you responsible for the entire process of developing the most competitive … Read More
Tags: PCB Flow, PCB Tooling, PADS, PADS 9.0
In addition to “doing everything right”, I think there are 6 other ideas that can help lower the manufacturing cost of a PCB.
1. Understanding First Pass Yield (FPY) in Mfg.- The mfg. yield of a PCB can be predicted for a particular fabricator by ‘calibrating’ that fabricator’s capability. 75% of the cost of a PCB is based on the design (20 - 25% is cost of inventory and factors not related to the …