Design Review

upverter 75% DESIGN REVIEW of hardware engineers who took the survey are aware that they need to do a better job at design review. However, the lack of tools and efficient processes has been holding them back so far. 70% 98% OF DESIGNS SUBMITTED WHEREAS WITHOUT ANY REVIEW HAVE have shipped a board with a ONE OR MORE FUNCTIONAL flaw that could have been 25% are either indifferent or FLAWS identified with a proper don't see a real interest in design review process at least once in their career. investing time and money in implementing a better design review process. 25% 61% have made the same mistake at least once in the last 12 months. THE MODERN DESIGN REVIEW PROCESS 71% 23% 6% DESCRIBE THEIR DESCRIBE THEIR DON'T THINK IT PROCESS AS PROCESS AS NEEDS TO BE INEFFICIENT PAINFUL IMPROVED MORE THAN 80% surveyed manufacturers think their collaboration with design teams would be faster if they properly reviewed DFM rules applications before sending of * 97% * THE AKINSANYA of companies who implemented an incremental design review processS found more defects on average EXPERIMENT In his 2012 study, 0. A. AKINSANYA ran an experiment to demonstrate the necessity of design review in PLM. He asked 24 experienced electrical engineers to design a simple piece of hardware and to submit it for manufac- turing. Guess what? than they did before *73% * of the designs submited without going 90% through design review had one or more of these companies lowered their average number of board re-spins due to finding these defects sooner functional flaws. HOW ABOUT YOU?