Programme to expand web-based component info

Mentor Graphics has set up a joint development and marketing programme to enable web-based information providers to integrate quickly and easily with its DMS design data management solution.

Mentor Graphics has set up a joint development and marketing programme called ADAPT (authorised DataFusion partner), designed to enable web-based information providers, such as online component database services, to integrate quickly and easily with DMS, Mentor's design data management infrastructure solution.

DMS connects the design engineer's desktop to the extended enterprise, making component criteria available during the critical product development phase, in which as much as 80% of a product's lifecycle cost is determined.

Mentor Graphics will work with ADAPT programme partners to develop standards-based interfaces between DMS and the partner's offerings.

As a result, Mentor Graphics will be able to offer addon modules to DMS that will allow users with any necessary subscriptions for the partner's product or service portfolio to incorporate the web-based information into their company's library.

Mentor has also revealed the Global Information Business unit of Arrow Electronics as the newest member of the programme.

The two companies are working together to develop an interface between Mentor's DMS solution and the Global Information Business' leading electronic components database, Ubiquidata.

The ADAPT programme expands on and formalises the DMS-Xchange content provider programme that Mentor Graphics initially established with PartMiner, a leading global supplier of electronic component information services to the electronics industry.

DMS consolidates and manages the work-in-process design infrastructure, integrates the engineer into the extended enterprise and ensures improved information flow on the designer's desktop.

DMS-Xchange is the communication and interchange platform that allows DMS users to access many different content providers and solution partner offerings using standards, such as XML-based formats.

The modular architecture of DMS-Xchange allows partners to integrate with DMS and gives users the flexibility to choose modules based on their organisation's requirements.

"The ADAPT programme allows us to provide our customers with access to a selection of the best solutions available for integrating the component and supply chain information that they need most", said Uwe Schmid, PhD, Managing Director, Systems Data Management, Systems Design Division, Mentor Graphics.

"The unique DMS-Xchange platform makes it possible to accelerate the integration process, making these new resources available as quickly as possible".

By joining the ADAPT programme, content and solution providers will be able to deliver a specialised interface to DMS.

ADAPT partners gain a competitive advantage by making their offerings more valuable to the community of system design and printed circuit board (PCB) designers using DMS.

Companies who are accepted into the ADAPT programme sign a joint development and marketing agreement and receive product and technology training.

"Mentor Graphics is leading the EDA industry by providing customers with best-in-class supply chain intelligence, such as component lifecycle data, within the design environment", said Chris Henry, Vice President and General Manager, Arrow's Global Information Business.

"This programme is a valuable opportunity for us to offer Mentor customers easy access to our premier technical and commerce data on 16 million parts from hundreds of manufacturers".

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