Guidelines for a Client Company to interface with an Engineering Service Bureau

Content

The interaction between the Engineering Service Bureau (ESB) and the client company (a Small Manufacturing Enterprise or SME in the context of TIGER) is essentially an interactive, design-oriented one.

The SME needs to get a product description to the ESB so that meaningful analysis idealizations can be made without excessive data entry demands.

Intermediate analysis results (screens showing analysis variables of interest, output files from tools such as ANSYS, graphical representations of analysis results, etc.) must be passed back to the SME.

The SME must be able to manipulate the product description in some fashion as they "do design".

Finally, the SME must be able to securely receive (or go to the ESB and securely get) the results of the analysis and design in a suitable format. (Note that in the case of TIGER, the final results may be both an AP210 file describing layer details of the PWB and a suitably formatted P21 file for submission to the NF.)

Format

Product Data - AP210 files.

NF Issues - NF Schema.