Data Management System (DMS)

The electronic industry faces many product challenges to optimize cost and to accelerate time-to-market. Merging business and engineering data is mission critical to success. Data Management Systems (DMS) is a bridge between the design chain and extended enterprise for optimal design and resource management.

Mentor Graphics provides an information centric approach to data management. Information is available at the engineering desktop, anywhere, at anytime. Components can be searched and selected by all kinds of technical and business criteria. BOM and variants are extracted and shared in a design community and with the enterprise, additionally designs can even be updated from within the BOM. A key value is the search of “Where Used” capability on any kind of component element.

Technology Overview

A major challenge in the electronic engineering is the management, access and distribution of intellectual property, not limited to library and component information, but also including design reuse elements or design data. DMS provides new and innovative mechanisms to eliminate a wide range of issues associated with today’s library management solutions, such as broken references, missing parts when transferring data.

Enterprise Complete

DMS is an information-centric database. All data in the design process are linked with relationships. This allows highest data consistency, minimized data maintenance effort as well as immediate identification of all dependencies, from a BOM down to the geometries and padstacks and vice versa.

As an engineering solution DMS plugs into enterprise systems, complements the PDM/PLM system with standardized and best-in-class solutions that are tailored for the complexity of the electronic design processes. It ensures that data is entered only once in the company and shared across the systems. This makes DMS a substantial part of the library and design management for every customer, who wants to be successful in a highly competitive and global market for electronic applications.

Advanced Capabilities

The scalable architecture allows selecting desired functionality and starting with a lean and out-of-the box solution. Advanced capabilities let the system grow with the needs up to the enterprise engineering management solution.

It helps to significantly reduce design cycles by reducing time consuming tasks, such as part research as well as the number of iterations through improper component selection, late part or technology changes.

Features and Benefits

Overall Benefits

  • Industry standard solution
  • Integrated design data management
  • Design integration with ERP/PLM/SCM systems

Provides all important technical and business information at any time

  • Part lifecycle
  • Reliability
  • Part documentation
  • Availability
  • Cost information
  • Associated documentation
  • Log files
  • Complete history tracking

Scalable Solution

As an ECAD engineering infrastructure backbone, DMS is scalable to meets the functional needs of smaller and medium size customers.

The basic server and user applications can serve a large area of needs in a lean environment. With growing complexity, servers, configuration and integration capabilities DMS can be upgraded to perfectly integrate with a more complex infrastructure, such as a global environment.

Production Library

All library data are stored in a central master repository. Rules and filter mechanisms allow extracting the libraries from this repository and limiting access based on criteria, such as:

  • Product family
  • Manufacturing technology
  • Drawing standards
  • Design tool flows

Central Management Benefits

  • Minimized library creation and administration cost through single point of storage, editing and management across the entire company
  • Library consistency though homogeneous distribution process
  • Reduced redesign effort by avoiding improper part or technology selection

Toolbox

Expedition Enterprise

 Designing a product requires more than just a great PCB layout tool – you need tightly integrated PCB design software. Expedition Enterprise provides this high level of integration, enabling all team members to work collaboratively and more efficiently. Expedition Enterprise