PLM for High Tech
For managing complex supply chains, ensuring regulatory compliance, optimizing resource allocation, and more.
Agility and strategic foresight are essential for maintaining competitiveness in high tech. Companies need to navigate complex supply chains, often spanning multiple countries, to source components and materials while ensuring compliance with stringent regulatory standards across different markets. Resource allocation is crucial, and the pressure to improve time-to-market is immense.
Let’s find out how we can help you achieve your goals in this fast-paced industry.
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Take a moment to read through the information below, and put a tick against the obstacles you’re ready to overcome. Once we know a bit more about your business, we’d be happy to put a custom demonstration together for you.
Design complexity
3DEXPERIENCE supports the creation of virtual twins, allowing companies to simulate and optimize product designs before physical production. This reduces time-to-market and enhances design accuracy.
Chip-scale packaging
As devices become smaller, CSP (chip-scale packaging) allows for more compact designs but increases the complexity of manufacturing and testing due to tighter tolerances and more intricate assembly processes.
MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems)
MEMS technology integrates tiny mechanical structures with electronic circuits on a chip. This enables advanced functionalities like sensors and actuators in compact forms, but demands specialized fabrication processes to maintain accuracy and reliability.
Multi-layered circuit boards
These boards stack multiple layers of circuits to increase functionality without increasing footprint. They require precise alignment and insulation between layers to prevent electrical interference and ensure signal integrity.
CST Studio Suite
CST Studio Suite offers multiscale simulation for circuit boards, allowing designers to ensure signal integrity and manage electromagnetic interference in complex, multi-layered PCB designs.
Heterogeneous integration
This approach combines different types of components (e.g., digital, analog, RF) into a single package or system. It enhances device capabilities but poses challenges in managing thermal dissipation and ensuring compatibility among diverse technologies.
CATIA supports the integration of diverse components into a single system, providing tools for design collaboration and system-level simulation to manage thermal dissipation and compatibility issues.
Active cooling solutions
These systems, such as fans or liquid cooling, actively remove heat from devices. They are essential for high-performance electronics but add complexity, cost, and potential points of failure to the system.
SOLIDWORKS provides thermal analysis tools to optimize heat sink designs and active cooling solutions, helping engineers simulate heat transfer and airflow to prevent overheating.
Manufacturing processes
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform supports BIM Level III with multidisciplinary modeling and attribute management. It offers a collaborative model based on data management in a PLM context, enhancing coordination across teams.
Robotic pick-and-place
Robots are used to place components onto circuit boards with high precision and speed, reducing human error and increasing throughput. However, this requires significant investment in robotic systems and programming expertise.
Automated inspection
Automated systems use advanced imaging technologies to inspect products for defects during manufacturing. This ensures high quality but involves integrating sophisticated software and hardware solutions.
DELMIA enhances quality inspection processes using augmented reality to guide operators through defect detection, improving accuracy and reducing inspection times.
Exotic alloy fabrication
High-tech applications often require alloys with specific properties (e.g., high strength, corrosion resistance) that are difficult to fabricate consistently, impacting production costs and timelines.
SIMULIA supports material modeling and simulation for exotic alloys and thin films, enabling precise control over fabrication processes to achieve desired material properties.
Thin-film deposition
This process creates very thin layers of material on substrates, essential for semiconductors and displays. It requires precise control over deposition parameters to achieve uniformity and desired material properties.
Abaqus
Abaqus offers linear and non-linear FEA (finite element analysis) for detailed material analysis. It supports the simulation of static and dynamic events, thermal stress analysis, and more.
SPC (statistical process control)
SPC involves using statistical methods to monitor and control manufacturing processes, ensuring product quality by detecting variations early. Implementing SPC requires data collection systems and analytical expertise.
DELMIA provides real-time tracking of manufacturing quality through statistical analysis, helping identify process variations early to enhance yield rates.
Defect reduction
These techniques focus on identifying root causes of defects and implementing corrective actions to improve yield rates, which can involve process redesigns or equipment upgrades.
DELMIA provides real-time tracking of manufacturing quality through statistical analysis, helping identify process variations early to enhance yield rates.
Supply chain management
Overseas supplier qualification
Ensuring that international suppliers meet quality standards involves rigorous audits and assessments, which can be challenging due to cultural differences and regulatory variations.
Logistics coordination
Managing the transportation of components across global supply chains requires careful planning to avoid delays and disruptions caused by geopolitical tensions or natural disasters.
3DEXPERIENCE supports real-time data collection and analysis capabilities.
Demand forecasting
Predicting future demand accurately helps maintain optimal inventory levels but is complicated by rapid technological changes and market volatility.
DELMIA analyzes historical data and market trends to accurately forecast demand, facilitating JIT manufacturing by aligning production schedules with real-time demand signals.
JIT (just-in-time) manufacturing
JIT minimizes inventory costs by synchronizing production schedules with demand forecasts, requiring precise coordination with suppliers to prevent stock outs or overproduction.
DELMIA analyzes historical data and market trends to accurately forecast demand, facilitating JIT manufacturing by aligning production schedules with real-time demand signals.
End-of-life component replacement
Proactively managing the lifecycle of components involves identifying alternatives or redesigning products when parts become obsolete, ensuring production continuity.
ENOVIA manages product lifecycle data to track component availability and support design strategies that mitigate obsolescence risks.
Design for longevity
Designing products with long-term component availability in mind helps mitigate risks associated with obsolescence, often involving collaboration with suppliers on future component roadmaps.
ENOVIA manages product lifecycle data to track component availability and support design strategies that mitigate obsolescence risks.
Quality assurance
ALT (accelerated life testing)
Deploying extensive sensor networks enables real-time data collection across operations, enhancing decision-making capabilities but requiring robust data management systems.
SIMULIA offers simulation tools for performing ALT and ESS virtually, allowing engineers to predict product reliability under extreme conditions without extensive physical testing.
ESS (environmental stress screening)
ESS exposes products to stressors like temperature fluctuations or vibrations to uncover latent defects, enhancing product reliability under real-world conditions.
SIMULIA offers simulation tools for performing ALT and ESS virtually, allowing engineers to predict product reliability under extreme conditions without extensive physical testing.
Safety certification
Obtaining certifications like UL or CE marks involves extensive testing and documentation to ensure products meet safety standards, which can be resource-intensive but necessary for market access.
3DEXPERIENCE integrates compliance management solutions to streamline certification processes and ensure adherence to safety and emissions regulations across product lifecycles.
Emissions standards
Compliance with emission regulations requires ongoing monitoring of manufacturing processes to reduce pollutants and adapt to evolving environmental laws.
3DEXPERIENCE integrates compliance management solutions to streamline certification processes and ensure adherence to safety and emissions regulations across product lifecycles.
Cost optimization
Process automation
Automating repetitive tasks reduces labor costs and increases efficiency but requires significant investment in technology infrastructure and employee training.
DELMIA provides tools for digital manufacturing, allowing companies to simulate and optimize production workflows, reducing labor costs and increasing efficiency through automation.
Waste elimination
Lean principles focus on identifying non-value-added activities within processes to streamline operations, reducing costs while maintaining quality.
3DEXPERIENCE supports lean manufacturing principles by providing tools for process optimization and waste reduction. It helps identify non-value-added activities and streamline operations, thus enhancing quality while reducing costs.
Contract manufacturing
Outsourcing production to specialized firms reduces internal costs, but necessitates careful partner selection to maintain quality standards and protect intellectual property.
3DEXPERIENCE allows you to connect with a network of qualified manufacturers for outsourcing production. It facilitates partner selection by providing access to a wide range of suppliers, ensuring quality standards and protecting intellectual property.
DFM (design for manufacturability)
Simplifying product designs facilitates easier manufacturing processes, reducing costs while ensuring consistent quality through collaboration between design and production teams.
CATIA offers robust capabilities for designing products with manufacturability in mind. They enable engineers to create designs that are easier to manufacture, reducing costs and ensuring consistent quality through collaboration between design and production teams.
Sustainability
Renewable power integration
Incorporating renewable energy sources like solar or wind into operations reduces carbon footprint, but may require significant infrastructure investments.
LCA (lifecycle assessment) helps integrate renewable energy sources into operations by optimizing energy use and supporting infrastructure planning for sustainable practices
Waste heat recovery
Capturing excess heat from industrial processes for reuse improves overall energy efficiency, reducing operational costs while supporting sustainability goals.
SIMULIA provides simulation tools to analyze and optimize waste heat recovery systems. This helps improve overall energy efficiency by capturing excess heat from industrial processes for reuse, thereby supporting sustainability goals.
Remanufacturing
Refurbishing used components extends product life cycles, reducing waste generation and resource consumption while creating new revenue streams.
ENOVIA helps with remanufacturing processes by managing product lifecycle data and supporting the refurbishment of used components. This extends product life cycles, reduces waste generation, and creates new revenue streams.
Material recycling
Recovering materials from end-of-life products for reuse supports sustainability by minimizing raw material usage and reducing environmental impact through closed-loop systems.
3DEXPERIENCE supports material recycling initiatives by providing tools for lifecycle assessment and closed-loop systems management. This helps minimize raw material usage and reduce environmental impact through effective recycling strategies.
Let's solve your challenges, together
This page lists some of the most common challenges in the High-tech industry. If all of this sounds a lot like your business, don’t worry, you’re not alone!
How do we know? We’ve worked with hundreds of businesses across High-tech industries, and we’ve solved all of these challenges before. We’d love to work together with you to implement a solution that set you up for success.