Electronics CAD

Failure to properly manage obsolescence issues can have serious consequences for manufacturers of electronic products, since these issues can threaten the integrity of end products and bringing manufacturing to a halt. Also, redesigning products due to component obsolescence is financially devastating and time-consuming when production and delivery are delayed.

As a manufacturer of electronic products, you need a component management system that provides real-time updates on multiple component sources, so you will acquire only the most cost-beneficial and high-quality parts for your products. Connect your preferred ECAD solutions with Bluestar PLM, allowing design-engineers in CAD to seamlessly exchange product data and related documentation with the downstream supply chain in Dynamics 365 F&SCM.

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Key Benefits

Trace work in progres and reduce errors

Track the latest product changes – in real-time – and who made them with audit trails for complete visibility and traceability. In this way, all changes that come in are immediately addressed to reduce errors and improve efficiency.

Trace your suppliers to get the most cost-beneficial parts

Bluestar PLM collects all the essential component data from multiple of your suppliers in one place, making it easy for you see who can provide you the parts you need at the best price, quality and lowest risk.

Uphold your product compliance obligations

Identify non-compliant products before costly mistakes are made at the point the product goes into manufacturing and release. Avoid products being taken off-market, paying huge fines, and suffering severe credibility loss of your brand.

Trace data on consistently evolving electronic components

A tight integration with the Silicon Expert database ensures you are always synchronized with the latest life-cycle statuses and material specifications for electronic components so you can stay compliant and not produce expired or banned parts.

Integrate global business processes

End-to-end issues are tracked and coordinated, and change impact analysis lets you understand the impact of design decisions to arrive at a far more optimal and cost-beneficial design.

Faster product development

Product data (CAD, PLM and ERP) centralized in a single solution promotes greater reuse and saves you time otherwise wasted on searching for information when all product related data is collected in a single BOM – in a single system.

Seamlessly share parts libraries between ECAD and D365 F&SCM

ECAD and Dynamics 365 F&SCM seamlessly exchange component data in real-time so you have reliant data directly in your design environment. Part information and lifecycle status as well as lead time information is acquired prior to releasing the BOM for approval. This vastly improves time-to-market and mitigates the number of errors related to component stock issues or obsolescence.

Improve collaboration between engineering and manufacturing

Integrate multiple formats of MCAD and ECAD design data into one place. Design intent and incremental engineering changes on PCBs and mechanical enclosures are shared immediately between design teams, lowering the risk of discovering constraints and errors late in development. Grants you a faster and more efficient development process.

Explore the functionalities

  • CAD users can easily share electronic PCB designs with other design disciplines inside a single CAD environment to communicate design intent and catch constraints early in product development.

  • Achieve full material disclosure for all your electronic products inside Dynamics 365 F&SCM and calculate material composures against regulations, to ensure you do not release prohibited products to market.

Supported CAD systems

Bluestar PLM is fully integrated with multiple mainstream ECAD systems for the design of electronic products.

  • ORCAD

  • ALTIUM

  • PADS

  • EPLAN

Key Features

Integration with third-party data providers

An integration with third-part data providers, like Silicon Expert, grants you instant access to the latest information on parts at risk, an in-depth look into electronic component lifecycle statuses, and environmental compliance data.

Centralized and controlled product information

A hierarchical product structure is automatically created in Dynamics 365 F&SCM which captures not only the BOM, but also all associated product documentation. All product documentation ever created in the lifecycle of a product is conveniently accessible in a single tab in Dynamics 365 F&SCM.

Multi-CAD collaboration

STEP–file conversion allows design teams across disciplines to easily exchange the latest product changes in Dynamics 365 F&SCM and leverage designs across MCAD/ECAD in a single CAD system.

Approved manufacturer list (AML)

From the AML list, vendors can trace and cross-reference information on component risk analysis, EOL, last time buy, and much more from different providers.

Manage product lifecycle statuses

With real-time updates from Silicon Expert on EOL dates and component expirations, you can initiate change requests to terminate, exempt or renew components to ensure you only produce compliant products.

Compliance management

Achieve full material disclosure for all your products and automatically calculate material composures so your products don’t exceed regulated substance levels.

Structured workflows and change processes

In order to meet product delivery and stay within budgets, Bluestar PLM supports best-practice end-to-end workflows and change management which lets PCB designers define and adjust workflows to their unique processes.

Enterprise-wide component management

Bluestar PLM automatically identifies any new or updated parts that needs to be synchronized. This lets product manufacturers reduce part duplication and prevent use of obsolete or unapproved parts. The component library is synchronized between ECAD and D365 F&SCM so users do not have to switch between applications to search for information.

Other features

Create, update and export drawings in PDF, BOMs and 3D files to Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&SCM from within CAD.

Automatically generate new categorized part numbers when creating new parts in CAD and export to Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&SCM.

Automatically generate and convert drawings in CAD to PDFs with stamps on design status, revision count etc. and transfer to Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&SCM.

The multi-check-in feature in Bluestar PLM allows the user to easily and efficiently import large packages of product data, and extracting a product BOM from a CAD system Bluestar PLM is otherwise not integrated with.

All revisions from first iteration to the latest version of CAD files are synchronized and accesible in both CAD and ERP environments.

The integrated CAD system follows the item numbering from the ERP system by default.

A 3D product viewer, gives users at all levels; CxO’s, engineers, sales and others a common environment in which to communicate product developments and configurations.

Automatically update properties related to new data, which controls the titleblock fields.

Collaborate concurrently on items in real time on a local or global scale while sign-on rights ensure that item-duplicates do not occur despite multiple users working on the same item at once.