Understanding this problem, we\u2019ve been working on a new tool \u2013 an easy-to-use, on-line collaboration space that will help SME designers greatly accelerate the design-to-manufacturing process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How PCBflow’s DFM process works<\/h2>\n
Instead of receiving designs and spending time and effort on debugging them, the manufacturer simply uploads their fab\u2019s \u201cDFM profile\u201d to the space. The profile contains secure data on their fabrication capabilities and limitations. Then, the designer uploads the design to the space, and runs a DFM analysis using the fabricator\u2019s profile and set of constraints. The DFM analysis report is issued within seconds, listing all the issues that require handling to make the board manufacturable. Thus the designer can independently revise the design until it is ready to be submitted to the fabricator \u2013 with no need for additional spins. Once the file is received, the fab can immediately give the developer a quote \u2013 without having made a single phone call or site visit. No time wasted analyzing the design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition, this collaborative space helps connect between fabricators and potential new customers \u2013 helping them to improve conversion rates while investing less time and effort. Communications barriers resulting from differences in time, location, and language, are easily overcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The process of developing this tool was greatly enhanced by the contribution of our customer, Nistec (www.nistec.com<\/a>), who collaborated with us on this project. Nistec happens to be both a board designer and<\/em> a manufacturer \u2013 they understand the difficulties experienced by both sides. So I\u2019m particularly grateful to Evgeny Makhline, Yaron Snir, and their team of professionals who helped us to pinpoint the major challenges in the industry, allowing us to close the gaps and accelerate the tool\u2019s development progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evgeny Makhline, Nistec\u2019s CTO told me, \u201cThis is a great idea that\u2019s a win-win for board designers and<\/em> for fabricators. On one hand, board designers get easy access to a cost-effective, easy-to-use platform that quickly identifies design issues and constraint violations that could affect manufacturability, and then connects them with a wide variety of fabricators. The fabs, on the other hand, receive a \u2018mature\u2019 design that requires little or no review or troubleshooting \u2013 a big savings in time and material.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n Sign up and try PCBflow for free at www<\/a>.<\/a>pcbflow.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This article was written by Yossy Pinhas, who is the Product Manager responsible for the PCBflow platform in Siemens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Siemens\u2019 collaboration space for connects electronics designers and manufacturers to shorten the design-to-production process<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70700,"featured_media":10056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1870,113,1883],"industry":[],"product":[693],"coauthors":[1972],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-success-story","tag-online-dfm","tag-pcb-design","tag-pcb-manufacturing","product-pcbflow"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2020\/06\/pcbflow.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10985,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/10985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2025\/04\/IMG_4370-002-scaled-1-150x150.jpg\")