PADS Professional Premium DFM

Harnessing DFM for a better and faster NPI

PADS Professional Premium DFM is a new solution that brings world-class, comprehensive Design for Manufacture (DFM) analysis directly into your PADS Professional Premium environment.

Take your electronic designs from prototype to production in one environment.

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Fabrication analysis early in the design
Detect manufacturing issues
Correct manufacturing issues right in your design tool

Correct manufacturing issues right in your design tool

PADS Professional Premium DFM is everything you get with PADS Professional Premium, with integrated DFM powered by PCBFlow. Take your electronic designs from prototype to production in one environment.

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Why DFM?

Why is it that two to three respins of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) designs during New Product Introduction (NPI) are expected rather than the exception? What are the main drivers behind these respins and how much does an average respin cost? How common are Technical Queries (TQs) that return your design from a fabricator or assembly house and how long does it typically take to resolve these?

Design for Manufacturing (DFM) software identifies aspects of a PCB design that can cause yield, cost or reliability issues in manufacturing. Historically, many OEMs relied on their manufacturing partners to perform DFM on their designs. But how many OEMs actually conduct DFM analysis themselves during the design stage and what benefits do they derive by doing so?

This report will examine the current state of the PCB industry and explore the challenges the industry is currently facing and identify how DFM can manage those challenges.

Key features of PADS Professional Premium DFM

No installation or configuration
PADS Professional Premium DFM requires no installation or configuration as a cloud-based tool. Designers can simply upload ODB++Design files into the secure cloud environment and select one or more manufacturers to apply process capabilities to the design for manufacturing (DFM) analysis.

Launch a DFM analysis directly from Layout
Users with designs uploaded to Connect for PADS Professional can launch a DFM analysis directly from Layout using one of the many DFM profiles available through PCBFlow. Once the analysis is complete, any issues that have been identified are shown in the Hazard Explorer, allowing you to go directly to the error and correct it.

Unlimited analysis
There is no limit to how many analyses you can run within the tool.

Generate a PDF report
Every time an analysis is run, an easy-to-read PDF report of the analysis results is added to the Connect project under the files area in Connect.

Get accurate price estimates, immediately
Using the BOM Pricing and Sourcing tool, PADS Professional Premium DFM instantly shows updated cost and availability information for the components in a Bill of Materials (BOM). PCB designers can use the QuickPrice function to receive instant, accurate price estimates.

Everything you get with PADS Professional Premium
PADS Professional Premium delivers everything you need to design your simplest to most complex PCB designs. Learn more about PADS Professional Premium.

Why PADS Professional Premium DFM?

The new PADS Professional Premium DFM offering allows users access to state-of-the-art DFM analysis capabilities fully integrated in the layout software.

Projects that are saved in Connect for PADS Professional can undergo a DFM analysis quickly and effectively using DFM profiles (rule sets) that have already been configured by manufacturers and industry leaders on our PCBflow cloud-based platform.

There is no need for DFM setup, configuration, upgrade or maintenance. No IT overhead. No extra storage space or computing power needed. The DFM engine runs on the Siemens PCBflow cloud, so you can be assured that you’re accessing the latest version and analysis algorithms.

DFM results are instantly available directly in the PADS Professional Hazard Viewer. Cross probing is automatic so you can fix the issues as you review them. No need to learn a new tool – everything you need is in your existing software.

Your subscription to PADS Professional Premium DFM includes 12 months of unlimited access to Design for Fabrication Analysis. Test your designs for manufacturability as often as you like. We suggest adding at least 2-3 DFM analyses to your design workflow.

In addition, a PDF format report of the analysis results is stored Connect project, for offline reference or sharing as needed.

Enhance your DFM experience with PCBflow.com

PADS Professional Premium DFM customers can use the same account to visit www.PCBflow.com, which is the fully independent Siemens online DFM tool. Log in to PCBflow to better understand and compare DFM profiles that have been provided for you, connect with manufacturers to gain access to private DFM profiles, or create your own custom DFM profiles to use in PADS Professional Premium DFM. As an added bonus, you can price and source your BOM using PCBflow, before you start your project.