Industrial Automation Magazine India

Siemens introduces PCBflow, a secure, cloud-based solution for PCBs

Published on : Tuesday 06-04-2021

Industry-first solution enables secure collaboration between printed circuit board (PCB) designers and manufacturers.

Plano, Texas, April 5, 2021 – Siemens has introduced PCBflow, an innovative cloud-based software solution which bridges the gap between the electronics design and manufacturing ecosystems. PCBflow extends Siemens' Xcelerator™ portfolio with a secure environment for printed circuit board (PCB) design teams to interact with a variety of manufacturers, and by rapidly performing a range of design-for-manufacturing (DFM) analyses in the context of each manufacturers' process capabilities, which helps customers accelerate design-to-production handoff.

With a leading position across the design-to-manufacturing flow, Siemens is the first company to offer a marketplace featuring online, fully automated DFM analysis technology, which can help optimise designs, reduce front-end engineering cycles, and streamline designer/manufacturer communication.

With a leading position across the design-to-manufacturing flow, Siemens is the first company to offer a marketplace featuring online, fully automated DFM analysis technology, which can help optimise designs, reduce front-end engineering cycles, and streamline designer/manufacturer communication.

Powered by the industry-leading Valor™ NPI software engine, which performs over 1000 DFM checks, PCBflow enables PCB design teams to rapidly identify manufacturability violations. These violations are then sorted and prioritised according to level of severity, guiding users through images and locations on the design for easy identification and immediate correction.

PCBflow is Siemens' first step toward PCB assembly online solutions which automate the design-to-manufacturing handoff process. With a leading position across the design-to-manufacturing flow, Siemens is the first company to offer a marketplace featuring online, fully automated DFM analysis technology, which can help optimise designs, reduce front-end engineering cycles, and streamline designer/manufacturer communication.