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Mentor White Paper: Lean NPI at Optimum Design Associates
February 18, 2019 | Mentor, a Siemens businessEstimated reading time: Less than a minute
This is the first in a series of three white papers which discuss Optimum Design Associates’ business processes. For more than 20 years, Optimum Design Associates has offered its customers PCB design and layout services, and also bare-board assembly.
In this paper, designers will learn about ODA’s approach to integrating PCB layout and Valor NPI tools with ODB++ data output in order to achieve best practice Lean NPI.
To download this white paper, click here.
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