Enhancing Electronics Design and Collaboration with Altium Technology: A Case Study on Quantel Laser
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Quantel Laser is a division of Lumibird, a global leader in laser technology. The company specializes in the development of solid-state lasers, laser diodes, and fiber lasers. These products are widely used throughout the industrial, scientific, medical, and defense industries. The company has main offices in Bozeman, Montana and Lannion, France, and has grown into a global organization of over 800 employees across two continents. The company has been in operation for over three decades and has seen the industry shift from a highly specialized technical field to one that powers a wealth of everyday essentials.
Quantel Laser, a division of Lumibird and a global leader in laser technology, has been facing increasing challenges in meeting the evolving needs of its customers. The company, which develops solid-state lasers, laser diodes, and fiber lasers, has seen its customer needs become progressively more intricate over the years. The industry has shifted from a highly specialized technical field to one that powers a wealth of everyday essentials. The demand for more energy in a smaller size at a lower cost has pushed the company's skills to the max. The company's engineers have relied on Altium technology for decades to meet these demands. However, the advent of the global pandemic posed a new challenge for the company, as it impacted their offices in France and the United States, disrupting their design team's ability to work together.
The solution to Quantel Laser's challenge came in the form of Altium 365, the world’s only cloud platform for printed circuit board (PCB) design and realization, and Altium CoDesigner, a unique capability that allows MCAD tools to integrate easily with Altium Designer. These tools ensured that Quantel’s customer expectations could always be met, even during the global pandemic. Altium’s CoDesigner, plus Altium 365, made it easy for mechanical engineers to work alongside their PCB designer colleagues by simply downloading a license-free plug-in for their MCAD tool and then continuing to work with their native assemblies without ever leaving their MCAD environment. Once they’re ready to share their designs, mechanical designers can just push/pull changes from their MCAD tools into the Altium ECAD space. This improved collaboration between MCAD and ECAD teams, eliminating the need for importing, exporting, or converting file formats.
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