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April 29, 2021
Meet Our People: Mike, Applications Engineer Meet Mike Montalvo. He is an applications engineer based in his home office in Phoenix, Arizona. He joined Zuken in July 2019 after working for a company developing hybrid drivetrains for heavy-duty vehicles. Mike enjoys an interesting variety of hobbies and activities.
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April 22, 2021
Benefits of Connecting Functional Design to Detailed Design E3.topology builds an intelligent connection between functional design and detailed design to create a transformative design process. Learn more about the benefits of connecting functional and detailed design in one package.
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April 15, 2021
Tech Tip: 3D Collision and Clearance Checks in Multi-Board Design Checking for potential electromechanical collisions is usually done more in the mechanical design environment. However, shifting the check to the electrical side during component placement can help create a more robust product. For multi-board PCB design, there are several built-in checks in Design Force that validate the design for collision and clearance requirements.
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April 08, 2021
EMC for PCB design: anything but black magic EMC problems are often responsible for re-design cycles in PCB design practice. Due to ever shorter innovation cycles of for example cell phones or IoT applications, such as fitness trackers or smartwatches, and many other electronic products, these time-consuming re-design cycles should be avoided under all circumstances.
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March 25, 2021
Meet Our People: Yuri, Assistant Marketing Manager Meet Yuri Saito. She joined Zuken in April 2018, after working for a Kyoto-based system integration company for almost 20 years. She is a working mom and a talented member of the marketing team based at Zuken headquarters in Yokohama, Japan.
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March 23, 2021
Engineering Newcomer Challenge 2022 Zuken is sponsoring the Engineering Newcomer Challenge - a design challenge where future engineers can submit their designs to win prizes. We offer all participants who would like to join the competition with an electrical design the possibility to use free student licenses of our ECAD system E3.series.
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March 17, 2021
Smart Cabinet Building Initiative honored with Innovation Award by the trade magazine SCHALTSCHRANKBAU The Smart Cabinet Building initiative launched by the partners Weidmüller, Komax, Zuken, and Armbruster Engineering has been awarded the INNOVATION AWARD 2021.
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March 16, 2021
Tech Tip: Creating and Verifying a System Circuit Diagram for Multi-Board Design in CR-8000 In part 1 of this series, I introduced the different methods for multi-board design in CR-8000. In most cases, the design starts with a system circuit diagram. Today you'll learn how to create and verify one in CR-8000.
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March 11, 2021
Get your Electrical Design Data under Control Today's day-to-day business in data management can sometimes be a real challenge. Who has the latest version? Where is it stored? Who is currently working on it? Manual versioning on a file system is not only difficult to handle but also highly error prone. However, with the DS-E3 Starter Package, some pitfalls can be eliminated.
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March 03, 2021
The Difference between ECAD and MCAD Electronics and mechanics are two of the most important areas of modern engineering. ECAD and MCAD are the generic names for software solutions that support the virtual design of electronic and mechanical systems in products. The integration of ECAD and MCAD design information and design processes is essential for the development of advanced electro-mechanical products
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February 11, 2021
The role of MBSE in the Digital Transformation of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Digital Transformation should go beyond a simple mapping of analog documents and processes into the digital domain. This blog post explores new ways and opportunities to enhance today’s methods and processes for increased efficiency and accelerated innovation.
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January 28, 2021
Tech Tip: How to start a Multi-Board Design in CR-8000 Multi-board designs are becoming increasingly important as today's products require higher speeds and more complex circuits in smaller dimensions. There is more than one way to create multi-board layouts in CR-8000.
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January 28, 2021
Meet Our People: Shawn, Senior Technical Fellow Meet Shawn, a Senior Technical Fellow at Zuken. He's a problem-solver for customers, mentor and data managment subject matter expert.
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January 14, 2021
The Lifecycle of Systems Simulation Many manufacturers are harnessing systems engineering approaches to mitigate the complexity of developing increasingly sophisticated products. Systems simulation is a key component of such efforts.
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January 07, 2021
Engineering Co-Design Across Domains As engineers face increasing complexity across electronics and electrical systems, they need a single set of related data to offer insights into the product’s various processes and functions. Simply stated, they need a digital thread for electrical systems.
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December 31, 2020
Top 5 Blogs of 2020 2020 was a difficult and challenging year, to say the least. So I have collected some of the highlights from our blog to look back on and spread some positive vibes that we all could use at the moment.
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