Integrating your design process and data with Xpedition Standard

For growing electronic design teams, digitizing their entire design process isn’t just about staying current; it’s about fundamentally transforming how they develop, validate, and manufacture electronic products with agility and precision. As you navigate the complexities of modern electronic design, it’s crucial to integrate your design data across the electronics ecosystem. Teams need tools that provide seamless collaboration, minimize overhead, reduce complexity, and eliminate the pitfalls of data translation.

Xpedition Standard serves as the perfect foundation to bridge this digital transformation gap. With scalable capabilities that empower teams to tackle physical design challenges, it opens the door to integrating digital opportunities throughout the entire design process.

The Importance of digital design integration

• Agility in design changes: In a fast-paced environment, the ability to make quick adjustments to designs is critical. Digitizing the design process allows teams to iterate rapidly, ensuring they can respond swiftly to market demands and engineering changes.
• Precision in collaboration: By integrating design data across various domains, Xpedition Standard fosters effective communication and collaboration among team members. This cohesion enables engineers to work together seamlessly, ensuring everyone has the most current data and insights.
• Minimized overhead and complexity: Traditional design processes often involve extensive manual data translation, leading to errors, inefficiencies, and miscommunications. Xpedition Standard eliminates these data continuity issues by providing an integrated design workflow, allowing teams to focus on innovation rather than administrative burdens.
• Enhanced verification processes: With a digitized workflow, teams can verify and validate designs throughout the design process, minimizing risks and identifying potential problems before they escalate. This proactive approach, often referred to as shift-left strategies, enhance product quality and reduces time-to-market.

Bridging the gap to digital innovation

Xpedition Standard offers a suite of features designed to facilitate a smooth transition to digitized PCB design:

• Integrated design environment: Experience a fully integrated design solution that combines robust ECAD capabilities with superior 3D modeling tools.
• Real-time collaboration: Share and update designs effortlessly with stakeholders across various disciplines, ensuring alignment and reducing the risk of miscommunication.
• Component digital twins: Access a component catalog of 600 Million+ parts with PartQuest™ Portal Standard integrated directly with Xpedition Standard. Use parametric search and manufacturer-verified 3D component models that precisely represent both electrical and mechanical characteristics.

By embracing the capabilities offered by Xpedition Standard, electronic design teams can transform their workflows, empower their creativity, and ultimately achieve greater success in their projects.

Leveraging PartQuest’s 3D models to drive digital transformation

A truly digital PCB design process begins with accurate 3D component models and this is where Xpedition Standard’s native integration with PartQuest delivers exceptional value for growing teams:

• Seamless integration flow: Import PartQuest 3D models directly into your Xpedition Standard design environment without conversion or manual rework.
• Supply chain intelligence: Each component’s digital representation carries not just geometry, but real-time availability, lifecycle, and compliance data facilitating smarter component selection decisions during design time.
• Parametric search capabilities: Find exact-fit components based on both electrical and mechanical constraints, ensuring you design with manufacturable parts from the start.

This integration eliminates one of the most time-consuming aspects of 3D PCB design, sourcing and creating accurate component models; letting your team focus on innovation rather than data gathering.

Embrace the digital transformation of PCB Design

Digitizing your design process is not just an upgrade; it’s a transformative move that empowers your team to thrive in an increasingly competitive landscape. With Xpedition Standard as your ally in this journey, you’ll have the tools you need to seamlessly integrate design data, reduce complexity, and enhance productivity.

Ready to bridge the digital transformation gap in your PCB design process? Explore the integrated design process of Xpedition Standard today and unlock new possibilities for innovation!