ARBURG Saves Money and Delivers High Quality with Zuken's CR-5000 CAD Software

January 12, 2011 – Munich, Germany and Westford, MA, USA – ARBURG, one of the world’s leading injection-molding machine manufacturing specialists for processing plastics, recently chose Zuken’s CR-5000 electronics design software. As a result ARBURG is already reporting a reduction in development costs and improved end product quality. This has been achieved by enabling effective design reuse, rapid and reliable mechanical interfacing with CATIA, and parallel development with verification and simulation, while maintaining excellent signal integrity and power integrity.

ARBURG supplies modular injection-molding machines, with control technology developed and constructed in-house. ARBURG is known the world over for very high quality standards. The foundation for this quality is laid at the development stage with Zuken's CR-5000 software for electronic design.

Despite increasingly challenging requirements in high-speed PCB design, ARBURG has managed to reduce development costs by saving time with CR-5000, while also achieving enhanced quality. The reuse of existing modules and assemblies from designs of tested and proven circuits has played an important part in advancing their design process.

Werner Faulhaber, Arburg

Werner Faulhaber, head of the electrical engineering development department at ARBURG, stated that one of today's key challenges is "being able to respond flexibly to both market and customer requirements in extremely short development cycles. It is rather unusual for a machine construction company to develop and produce its own control technology for its injection molding machines. But this has given us extensive know-how which enables us to devise the most efficient solution together with our customers in a practical and competent manner."

The use of new IC technologies results in more complex requirements. The control-based design process makes for a faultless process – from product development to production. This is implemented by parallel development and verification, co-simulation of analog and digital shift lever brackets and programmable components, as well as optimization of signal integrity, power supply, decoupling and EMC. Selected DFM techniques are also used in parallel with the design process.

CR-5000 has also delivered to ARBURG a rapid and reliable design process that links to mechanical development with CATIA. The key board geometries and enveloping bodies, which are important for collision checks, are imported using the CATIA interface Board Interchanger. In turn, the finished layout is exported as a 3D model to the mechanical design tool CATIA.

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About Arburg

German machine builder Arburg is one of the world's leading manufacturers of injection moldingmachines for plastic processing with clamping forces of between 125 kN and 5,000 kN. Areas of application include the production of plastic parts for the automotive industry, communication and consumer electronics, medical technology, domestic appliances and packaging. The product range is rounded off with robotic systems, complex projects and other peripherals. Arburg has an integrated management system including DIN EN ISO 9001 and 14001 certification.

Arburg enjoys a global presence. Its own organizations are based at 32 sites in 24 countries and it has trading partners in more than 50 countries. Manufacturing is however only undertaken at the headquarters in Lossburg (Germany) and all products feature the "made by ARBURG – made in Germany" quality seal. Arburg employs more than 2000 members of staff, around 1700 of whom work in Germany while the rest are employed in Arburg organizations around the globe.

For more information about Arburg, please visit www.arburg.com

About Zuken

Zuken is a global provider of leading-edge software and consulting services for electrical and electronic design and manufacturing. Founded in 1976, Zuken has the longest track record of technological innovation and financial stability in the electronic design automation (EDA) software industry. The company’s extensive experience, technological expertise and agility, combine to create world-class software solutions. Zuken’s transparent working practices and integrity in all aspects of business produce long-lasting and successful customer partnerships that make Zuken a reliable long-term business partner.

Zuken is focused on being a long-term innovation and growth partner. The security of choosing Zuken is further reinforced by the company’s people—the foundation of Zuken’s success. Coming from a wide range of industry sectors, specializing in many different disciplines and advanced technologies, Zuken’s people relate to and understand each company’s unique requirements. For more information about the company and its products, visit www.zuken.com

About CR-5000

CR-5000 is Zuken’s most advanced design suite for electronics systems and PCBs (printed circuit boards). It was developed to tackle complex design needs that involve managing the complete development and manufacturing preparation process on an enterprise-wide scale. CR-5000 offers cutting-edge functionality for the design of complex and high-speed boards, addressing design challenges such as signal integrity and EMC, while ensuring high-yield manufacturability. The performance of CR-5000, coupled with its modular and scalable design environment, provides product development teams across disciplines and geographic boundaries with the flexibility needed for handling multi-user designs.