How to Build a New Data Management System

Judy Warner

| 已创建：五月 3, 2021

Pro Tips on Adopting to a New Design System

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Show Highlight - Pro Tips!

How do you build a new data management system?
Build templates and defaults (files) and remember to always do this FIRST - copy the Altium defaults and set them up from there. Please review all the parameters and learn how they flow. Then check in to Concord / Altium365.
Review and organize your categorization system. Make templates. Don't make it more complicated than it needs to be. Restrain yourself from over-organizing.
Build up a test project and test it out.
Bonus: Use the drafting system; it is awesome.

Show Notes:

Why did you start using Altium 365 Pro?
Flat data model is dead
- Database and programmable access to a managed data system
- Version control within the new data management system
- Part availability and shortages and crosses
- Better than Digi-key in some cases :)
What solutions/benefits did this offer to the organizations you are involved in?
Digging into the details: Advice for your peers and those considering this solution:
- Maybe prototype and implementation should be different
- Migrating to Altium 365...go slow and don’t jump into the migrator right away.
- The templating system is great...USE IT! (if Pro)
- Sample data is a nice place to start, but hardly a perfect plan
- Directories are a good start, but data quality varies and is inconsistent
- Highly recommend the pro version
- Concord Pro for DoD work (on-premises)
- Plan it out, figure out what really matters. I wasted a lot of time on what didn't matter.
  - I ultimately wrote an entire document with footprint names/IDs, formatting of the descriptions, etc. After making a mess.
Rs and Cs were the hardest. Use Excel to build tables. (John Watson’s tip)
Lot's of little details which are not readily apparent how they work together.

Links and Resources:

Escape Room Tech
Anidea Engineering
Altium 365
Concord Pro (On premise)
Altium 365 Pro Subscription (includes Concord Pro for Data Management)

Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics

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Judy Warner在电子行业的不同领域有超过25年的经验。她拥有PCB制造、射频和微波PCB以及合同制造的背景，专攻Mil/Aero应用。她还在多家行业出版物撰写文章、博客和日志，例如Microwave Journal、PCB007 Magazine、PCB Design007、PCD&F和IEEE Microwave Magazine，并且是PCEA（印刷电路工程协会）的活跃委员会成员。2017年，Warner加入Altium，担任社区参与总监。除了主持OnTrack Podcast和创建OnTrack Newsletter外，她还推出Altium年度用户研讨会AltiumLive。Warner致力于为全球PCB设计工程师提供资源、支持和建议。

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