How to make sure that your manufacturing process capabilities remain private, even when shared with others<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Siemens presents a pending patent that will change the future of collaboration in the PCB design industry. As a \u201cleft-shift\u201d leader in PCB design development, at Siemens, we are focused on introducing innovative tools that facilitate PCB design-for-manufacturing (DFM) and accelerate collaboration between designers and board manufacturers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ValorTM<\/sup> NPI, Siemens powerful PCB DFM analysis solution, reduces the number of design-to-manufacturer handoffs by allowing the designers to validate their design\u2019s manufacturability at an early stage of the product life cycle. Until now, any collaboration between manufacturers and designers was limited to standard channels (email for example), and vulnerable to security breaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PCBflow, a new and highly-secured Siemens cloud-based solution, allows manufacturers and designers to gain exposure to other companies in the industry and to collaborate with each other by exchanging design data and information on manufacturing capabilities. Each member logs in to a protected area with their unique credentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While each PCBflow subscriber is allocated a secured space for their proprietary data on a multi-tenant cloud server, an additional solution<\/em> is required that will ensure that their intellectual property can only be accessed by invited participants \u2013 and not by unauthorized third parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To ensure security, Siemens developed a methodology that prevents unauthorized third parties from obtaining a manufacturer\u2019s intellectual property.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Siemens offers a unique, patent-pending solution for protecting the manufacturer\u2019s proprietary data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When a manufacturer uploads its DFM profile capabilities to PCBflow, the data is encrypted and saved in his account, ready to be used by designers that are approved by the manufacturer. After the designer and the manufacturer establish a connection, the designer can run a DFM analysis based on the specific Manufacturing capabilities set. Leveraging the new patent-pending technology, once the designer selects the manufacturer\u2019s constraint set (CS) to be used with Valor NPI, the software encrypts & digitally signs the CS using the designer\u2019s account ID, so that only the designer with that ID can run a DFM analysis based on this constraint set. The manufacturer\u2019s data remains protected and cannot be shared with any other designer<\/p>\n\n\n\n Siemens has created a trusted environment that enables manufacturers to upload their proprietary data with the confidence that it will not end up in unauthorized hands.The challenge: Secured online DFM<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Solution: How do we protect the manufacturer\u2019s data?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
PCBflow provides a trusted environment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The designers, in turn, can use the manufacturer\u2019s profile to check the manufacturability of their designs, saving time and effort for both parties as they reduce the number of manufacturing cycles.
To access the PCBflow community, register at https:\/\/www.pcbflow.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n