PCB Design and Manufacturing in the Cloud

April 5, 2022

Available on the Altium 365 cloud platform and connected directly to MacroFab’s fully digital, elastic manufacturing platform, Altimade enables customers to request an instant quote and place an order to produce their PCB assembly.

Alix Paultre

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Electronic Design

This article appeared in Electronic Design and has been published here with permission.

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Altimade modernizes and accelerates the prototype manufacturing process by connecting design, manufacturing, and supply-chain data and professionals on the Altium 365 cloud platform to provide an easy, convenient user experience. We talk to Ted Pawela, Chief Ecosystem Officer of Altium, about the solution.

With Altimade, Altium customers have continuously updated component and manufacturing information, and can place an order to produce their printed circuit boards directly within the design environment. All data required for manufacturing is shared via the secure, cloud-based Altium 365 platform. Orders are fulfilled by MacroFab’s network of manufacturers. Altimade creates, maintains, and displays a complete and continuous digital data trail for every step in the design, procurement, and manufacturing processes of a PCB. Any changes to the bill of materials or design details automatically update the golden record.

About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Microwaves & RF

Alix is Editor-at-Large for Microwaves & RF.

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.

Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.