Optimizing Engineering Team Efficiency in the Face of Increasing Product Complexity

Engineering team efficiency is inversely related to the complexity of the designed product and size of the team. With increasing complexity come workarounds, capacity limitations with tools and hardware, sub-optimized products, and extended design cycles. Best practices for team efficiency include concurrent collaboration and automation of manual processes and repetitive tasks.

This session, originally presented at the 2018 PCB Systems Forum, reviews efficiency enablers, including flow-wide concurrency, layout abstraction and automation, and a multi-board design flow.