GE Fanuc's electrical design environment is filled with in-process design changes, a growing number of board designers (Engineers and CAD designers) and increasingly complex PWB designs. This environment has created the need for automated software and standardized processes throughout the board layout stage of the design. This presentation will examine some of the ways that GE Fanuc has leveraged Mentor Graphics Boardstation tools to address some of these challenges, including: Custom software development to streamline repetitive tasks and automating tasks to remove variation in the PWB layout process. Included in the presentation, how do I know I need to customize, where do I start and what the some of the process and code look like.

Bio

Jim Bergeron has been involved in the manufacture, design and assembly of PWB's for more than 15 years and for the past 3 years, as and AE, has written programs to automate and consolidate the PWB layout design process. Jim currently works for GE Fanuc Automation, North America, Inc. in Charlottesville, Virginia, a joint-venture company with General Electric and Fanuc of Japan that manufactures and assembles precision numerical and programmable controls.