Improve PCB Layout with Skill Utility Programs

Written by: Arbel Nissan, COO, Nistec Design

Faster time to market is crucial in the development and manufacturing of every new product. Many studies indicate that there is a relationship between project profitability and success and the time it takes from the original idea until the product is on sale on the free market. All groups involved in the development of a product are responsible for assessing how they can contribute and reduce, regardless of how much, their own process to shorten the entire product’s time to market.

This article offers an original solution that is applied during PCB design that significantly contributes to the reduction of work times and leads to faster time to market. Today’s competitive market poses not only technical challenges but also business challenges to engineers and product developers alike. On the technical side, new technologies are constantly emerging and product complexity increases, challenging R&D engineers who are required to obtain better performance from their products. On the business side, when tomorrow’s product may become irrelevant compared with the product of the day after tomorrow, it is essential to shorten project times until the prototype is released to achieve the main goal – minimum time to market (TTM).