At Motorola's Land Mobile Products Sector (LMPS) Plantation Florida facility, a standardized concurrent engineering process using Mentor Graphics Library Management System (LMS) is being utilized daily to increase design team interaction and decrease overall Printed Circuit Board design cycle time. Plantation's Concurrent Engineering Process Definition is: multiple Electrical Engineers and one Printed Circuit Board designer working together in parallel (concurrently) as part of a product design team, using a single common design container with a hierarchically partitioned schematic.

This presentation will highlight the benefits of using a standardized concurrent engineering design process at a large site with a diverse user population. Management of the design container, a high-level overview of Plantations concurrent engineering process flow, and details of each step in the Printed Circuit Board design process will be discussed. Knowledge of LMS, latching, and the PCB design viewpoint, is helpful but not required.

Bio:
Craig Armenti is a Lead Engineer with the Engineering Computing Department at Motorola's Land Mobile Products Sector (LMPS) Plantation Florida facility. Since joining Motorola, Craig has been responsible for the deployment of the Mentor Graphics Board Station tool suite, and the definition of the Printed Circuit Board Design Process for the site. Craig has been using Board Station software for approximately seven years starting with version 7.x.