Now it’s time to roll up our sleeves and get “messy.” Once the CAM preparations are complete, Matt Stevenson explains what happens next. In this episode, Matt Stevenson details the role of materials, stackup considerations, and walks us through what happens in the Imaging process.

To launch this series on integrated system design, we ask Cadence's Patrick Davis why we need to change how we design printed circuit boards in the first place. Davis explains how the interrelated shifts in design requirements are changing the methods we use.

In this episode, we begin at the beginning: the design process. Matt Stevenson provides a thoughtful analysis of CAD tool features and data formats intended to give designers feedback on design decisions and transfer designs to manufacturing, respectively. Stevenson then describes what happens when a design file arrives at a PCB fabricator. Knowing what the fab is looking for is critical to sending all of the needed information the first time.

In this podcast series, we’ll be speaking with Matt Stevenson, vice president and general manager at ASC Sunstone, and author of The Printed Circuit Designer’s Guide to: Designing for Reality.

Why is a working knowledge of manufacturing helpful? How does it improve manufacturability? We start at the beginning with the role CAD tools play in preparing the design for transfer to manufacturing. 

One long-standing sustainability slogan is “think globally, act locally.” In this installment, Siemens predictive analytics expert, Jonathan Fromm, introduces us to the “eight R’s” of sustainability. Fromm also draws parallels between the idea of thinking globally and act of crafting holistic sustainability initiatives.

In this installment, Zac Elliot, Siemens technical marketing engineer, discusses sustainability in logistics internal to the factory. Listeners will hear how ineffective logistics create wasted effort in the form of ineffective materials transfers, or increasing line downtime when materials are not flowing to the line properly

The most obvious area of concern for logistics sustainability is the reduction of the carbon footprint. But Christian Wendt, marketing and communications department head at Siemens Digital Logistics, suggests that there is much more than simply fossil fuel costs. During our conversation, Wendt explains a wide variety of logistics-related areas to consider, from employee burnout to governmental regulations, and how they vary from country to country. 

Mark Laing, business development manager for digital industries software at Siemens, discusses the role of electronics in achieving sustainability. Not only does the electronics industry have a primary role to play here, but it also contributes by creating products which enable other industries to monitor and optimize their sustainability practices.  

Are cloud applications and sustainability just a pie in the sky vision? Not if you talk to Susan Kayesar, PCBflow product manager at Siemens. Susan maps the sustainability landscape, as she sees it, pointing out the potentially negative effects that “greenwashing” can have. She then takes us on a tour through DFM and industry standards development for sustainability, as well as some key new best practices that emerge from using a cloud-based platform model for business operations software systems.