Altium and Aras partner for nextgen ECAD/MCAD collaboration

Altium Limited, an Australian-owned public company that provides electronic design automation services, native 3D PCB design systems and embedded software development toolkits, has announced a partnership with Aras Corporation, an American developer and publisher of product development software.

Based on Altium’s solutions for collaboration and ECAD design management and Aras’s suite of PLM solutions, both companies work on a new approach to fully integrated MCAD-ECAD PLM workflows for companies with systems engineering requirements and complex mechatronic product development environments.

“Team collaboration and ECAD design management are fundamental needs in today’s electronic design environments,” said Jason Hingston, CTO at Altium. “The partnership with Aras will provide design engineers and the teams in the broader organisation with a new level of integration in an ECAD/MCAD environment.”

“The development of next-generation products combining electronics and software is resulting in greater complexity during design and manufacturing,” said Peter Schroer, president of Aras.

“Altium’s perspective on the need to bring together the electronic and mechanical design processes aligns with ours, providing us the opportunity to jointly build better PLM processes for today’s modern manufacturers.”