What if there were tools that gave you real-time supply chain visibility directly alongside your design tools and allowed you to instantly incorporate this data into your bill of materials? No one should have to scour component distributor websites just to keep up with this critical aspect of sourcing. Keeping up with new component releases can be challenging when this information is not compiled in a single location. Hardware design teams and product development engineers must keep this in mind when designing electronics for existing applications, and should try to extend the application lifetime of their product by anticipating new applications.Īt some point, individual components become obsolete and are replaced with newer, more powerful versions. At some point, an piece of hardware can no longer keep up with new applications and must be retired in favor of a newer version. You’ll have the component visibility you need to avoid redesigns, production delays, and properly reuse design data in new devices.Ī unified data and product lifecycle management platform that integrates with Altium Designer® and other mechanical design tools.Īll components in electronic devices, and even devices themselves, have finite lifecycles. Altium Concord Pro is the only component and data management platform that offers this level of visibility and integrates with mechanical design platforms. This also gives you live supply chain information directly from component distributors, and this data can be passed directly into your bill of materials for your manufacturer. Integrating these capabilities in a single software interface allows new product designs to move to production faster while preventing the need for redesigns. With the importance of managing design data and hastening design updates, product engineers need tools that allow component lifecycle management and codesign within a single application. Reusing design data for a portion of an existing board or functional blocks within a device is a great way to hasten the board design process. Production lead times are decreasing, component lifecycles are shorter, replacement parts are pushed to market sooner, and design data steadily grows as new designs become more complex. Managing this design data, including version control and component data management, can be a real challenge. Reusing design data is a great way to hasten redesigns of existing hardware.
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