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Hi, I'm Steph Chavez, senior product marketing manager for Siemens.
Welcome to this fifth PCB Design Best Practices video.
We will outline how to implement supply chain resilience
and why it's important in today's environment.
With all that's going on in the world today.
When it comes to your design process and how you do things,
we've got to throw out the old way and evolve.
And the way you do
that is you've got to implement supply chain resilience at the point of design.
So the question is asked, why does it matter?
You know, it matters because the methods today, as I stated
they're not inherent to the process for supply chain resilience.
It's just not inherent in that process in the methodologies, how we do things
which led to schedule delays, higher cost
and longer schedules and higher risk.
In turn integrated sourcing and engineering collaboration
by bringing supply chain information to the engineers desktop.
Accurate up to date component information
in the Enterprise Library. Early sourcing optimization decisions
with direct BoM Integration. In this best practice pillar of Design
for Resilience, there are several key areas to address best known
part availability, boM, validation and validation of alternates.
The problem is that we have siloed teams,
legacy processes and ineffective risk management.
The roadblocks: is the just in time approach
is a current method of operation.
Not sure how to address supply chain issues
and it's too much overhead to set up, implement and maintain.
The best practices for this pillar would be to implement an outside
in approach with supply chain
intelligence by shifting left the best known part availability,
BoM validation and validation of alternate parts at the point of design.
The second thing would be to remove barriers from siloed teams
and to optimize operations and communications.
The value you're going to get from these best practices are reduced design
cycle time, reduced respinss, intelligent parts selections.
Your BoM analysis will shift left at the point of design.
You're going to have validation of alternates, which is automated
and instant.
You're going to have reduced process design loops, adaptability to market changes,
and external supply chain touchpoints brought internally.
Now let's take a look at a few examples for design for resilience.
One of the best ways to avoid supply
chain issues is to empower the designer with supply chain knowledge,
so that they can make informed decisions early and often
during the design cycle.
By defining the preferred suppliers that your company uses
and prioritizing them, relevant supply chain information can be fed
to users real time.
Users can access the supply chain data at various stages of design
during the schematic phase, all the way through to after a bill of materials
has been created.
During schematic creation
real time risk alerts and risk ratings are displayed in the tool.
By glancing
at the status indicators for components, users can easily
see if there's potential issue with a component in their design.
For instance, if a component is out of stock
at the supplier selected, or if a part has recently been obsoleted.
When an issue has
been identified with a component being used, a suitable replacement
can be found by clicking on the entry.
Suitable replacements from your preferred suppliers are listed
and can be selected to replace the component with the issue.
Data such as pricing,
availability, compliance and lifecycle data
for all the components in the design is presented to the user as well.
Additional information such as links to data sheets
for components are easily accessible by clicking on the links
provided.
Once a design has reached a milestone,
a customized bill of materials can be exported from the schematic
with all the components sourcing data that was available in the tool,
including links to suppliers, pricing
and lifecycle data.
All of the same component's
sourcing data can be accessed from the data management
being an integration with FindChips.
This allows users to browse component
availability and filter the results several ways.
For instance, having only in-stock components in the results
as well as a filtered by supplier.
Thanks for tuning in.
I hope you found this video series of value and were able to walk away
with a better insight to PCB design best practices.