Circuits Assembly Online Magazine - EMA Strengthens RoHS Compliance with PTC InterComm

Rochester, NY – EMA Design Automation, a provider of electronic design automation (EDA) solutions, has added PTC InterComm to its design tools. The suite of electronic design communication and collaboration products reportedly enable product design teams to hold accurate, in-depth design reviews while streamlining the process. The tools are helpful with distributed design teams or companies with heterogeneous design environments.

“InterComm is an integral part of the design methodology we use to solve the RoHS problem,” said Manny Marcano, president of EMA Design Automation. “We enable the entire product team to review designs for compliance, rather than just the CAD tool users.”

InterComm uses the Internet to address the problem of sharing complex design data. Anyone can view EDA designs created in different environments, including schematic, PCB and BOM data. This eliminates the need to learn CAD software or create other forms of output. Viewers can query intelligent design data and add comments or red-line changes that can be sent back to the user electronically. Only the EDA user can change the actual design files.

The visibility is helpful for compliance review of existing designs. Adding RoHS compliance data to the design allows operations or manufacturing to check for non-compliant components. Likewise, changes made in manufacturing for compliance reasons can be quickly reviewed by the design team.