Teamcenter Integration for Cadence OrCAD

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• Manages entire PCB product lifecycle
• Provides a single source of product and process data
• Fosters environmental compliance initiatives
• Facilitates collaboration and concurrent engineering initiatives
• Aligns ECAD design with product requirements

• • Product development organizations use multiple ECAD and MCAD design systems. 
• • Coordinating ECAD/MCAD collaboration. 

• • Integrating the ECAD process into the product development process. 
• • Managing ECAD data in the context of the overall product configuration. 
• • Verifying environmental compliance. 
• • Product teams need to access and share all of the diverse information that they create 
• • Design teams are located in multiple sites or dispersed across a multi-vendor supply chain 

• • Product change and approval processes take too long. 
• • Ensuring that ECAD design implementation meets customer requirements. 

• • Store, access and manage OrCAD objects as items in Teamcenter 
• • Create new product revisions or version updates for work in progress 
• • Establish security and data access control policies in Teamcenter 

• • Establish relationships between Teamcenter objects and engineering BOMs 
• • Share PCB design data across engineering domains through open interchange formats 
• • View, annotate, and mark up schematic data in a collaborative environment 
• • Associate and trace product requirements to PCB designs 

Teamcenter’s OrCAD integration enables users to leverage Teamcenter’s powerful requirements management capabilities. PCB logic functions can be associated with specific design requirements, providing complete requirements traceability throughout the entire PCB lifecycle.

The ECAD viewer’s graphical navigation features enable design teams and suppliers to interactively view and annotate schematic data without the use of an expensive authoring tool. Many frequently used annotations are translated and displayed using the local language specified by the user’s system.

Electrical engineers can pass ECAD data as 2.5D/3D elements to mechanical engineers to simulate and analyze various conditions, including interferences, thermal, vibration, shock, dust, and humidity. Sharing data for this type of cross-domain analysis helps improve quality and increase product reliability.

To facilitate the flow of accurate design data across multiple domains, the Teamcenter integration leverages ECAD/MCAD interchange files that facilitate the exchange of data, such as board outlines, fixed component placements, keep-out areas, and other placement restrictions.

When ECAD design procedures are brought under Teamcenter control, they can be incorporated into structured workflows and effective change management processes. By managing data in Teamcenter, product manufacturers can quickly identify, access, and manage the creation, modification, and release of their most critical ECAD data.

At the user level, the Teamcenter integration supports the ability to open and save native design files, access approved parts, manage vendor part data, collaborate with mechanical engineers, generate derived visualization files, share fabrication and assembly data with suppliers, and create BOMs containing both mechanical and electrical parts. To reduce interpretation errors, BOM data can be displayed as “packed” or “unpacked” while Teamcenter’s compare capabilities can be used to quickly identify any differences between BOM revisions.

On an enterprise level, the integration allows globally dispersed PCB design teams to manage released design data, collaborate and execute design changes across the entire product lifecycle, thereby minimizing change-related rework. 

Teamcenter’s integration for OrCAD enables users to store and manage all of their PCB design, collaboration, and manufacturing data in Teamcenter. Teamcenter menus allow the user to log in to Teamcenter and open, save, check-in, and check out design data. Design teams are assured their ECAD data is accurately captured and consistently managed in the Teamcenter environment in sync with other product definition data.

Teamcenter’s integration for OrCAD provides schematic capture and the Teamcenter Gateway for Electric Design Automation a comprehensive solution for the entire electronics product lifecycle that extends from initial inception through creation, analysis, manufacturing, service, and end-of-life disposition. 

The options available are: 

• • Teamcenter Gateway for Electronic Design Automation 

• • Facilitate enterprise-wide ECAD library management 
• • Manage OrCAD objects in change processes 
• • Link OrCAD objects to product/project requirements 
• • Leverage ECAD viewer to markup and share schematic data with suppliers 

• • Open, save, check in and check-out objects to/from Teamcenter 
• • Extract components and attribute information 
• • Generate bill of material (BOM) 
• • Place OrCAD objects under enterprise-wide revision control 

• • Manage OrCAD objects in structured workflows and other options 

Teamcenter integration for Electronic Design Automation supported objects: 

• • Components on a CCA (BOM) 
• • Layout design data 

• • Secondary data (fabrication and assembly) 
• • ECAD/MCAD and analysis interchange files 
• • Layout files in native tool ASCII file format 

Teamcenter software’s integration for Cadence OrCAD schematic capture and the Teamcenter Gateway for Electric Design Automation system enables users to capture and manage their schematic, PCB layout, BOM, fabrication, assembly, and visualization data in Teamcenter.