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When design meets manufacturing: Why the digital thread and digital twin are leadership imperatives

December 22, 2025

When design and manufacturing operate without a cohesive digital twin, the consequences ripple across the enterprise.

By Stephen V. Chavez
4 MIN READ
Engineers working on PCB designs.

Optimizing multi-domain collaboration: turning engineering complexity into competitive advantage

December 8, 2025

Multi-domain collaboration is no longer a technical nice-to-have. It is a business imperative.

By Stephen V. Chavez
3 MIN READ
Icons for PCB components and design processes.

Top 5 benefits of Xpedition Standard

November 21, 2025

Xpedition Standard brings enterprise-level PCB design power into a flexible, approachable environment that evolves alongside your business.

By David Haboud
4 MIN READ

Latest posts

Silkscreen – is it really that simple?

November 9, 2020

A silkscreen contains human- and machine-readable marks on the surface of a PCB that indicates PCB components’ positions and polarity,…

By Alex Belelovsky
3 MIN READ
Ensuring PCB design is ready for manufacturing

Skydiving without a parachute – how to enable exchange of manufacturing process requirements

October 12, 2020

On an August evening in the sky above a California desert, a skydiver leaped from the safety of an airplane…

By Max Clark
3 MIN READ
PCB design tweaks by manufacturers

How to Take Control and Reduce PCB Design Tweaking

September 30, 2020

In the realm of PCB fabrication, it is commonplace for manufacturers to “tweak” board designs provided by designers in order…

By Alex Belelovsky
4 MIN READ
Right-first-time PCB manufacturing

Right the first time

August 27, 2020

Shift left – Shift Right (1st part out of two) In 1887 the great city of Chicago in response to…

By Max Clark
2 MIN READ
ABCs of PCBs – O for ODB++

ABCs of PCBs – O for ODB++

August 13, 2020

Welcome to ABCs of PCBs – a blog series to help new engineers learn about the world of Printed Circuit…

By Shivani Joshi
3 MIN READ
ABCs of PCBs – N for Netlist

ABCs of PCBs – N for Netlist

July 27, 2020

Welcome to ABCs of PCBs – a blog series to help new engineers learn about the world of Printed Circuit…

By Shivani Joshi
3 MIN READ
Accelerate Design With Integrated FPGA-PCB I/O Co-Design

Accelerate Design With Integrated FPGA-PCB I/O Co-Design

July 27, 2020

Did you know that a PCB design tool flow with FPGA I/O Optimizer technology eliminates the barriers between FPGA and…

By John McMillan
2 MIN READ
Gerber fabrication drawing

Should You Really Trust Gerber?

July 23, 2020

The Gerber data transfer format has been serving the PCB manufacturing industry for decades, and the Extended Gerber standard (also…

By Alex Belelovsky
4 MIN READ
ABCs of PCBs – M for Manufacturing

ABCs of PCBs – M for Manufacturing

July 10, 2020

Welcome to ABCs of PCBs – a blog series to help new engineers learn about the world of Printed Circuit…

By Shivani Joshi
3 MIN READ