Who can benefit from AllSpice Actions

Any team designing electronics can benefit from AllSpice Actions.

It doesn’t matter the size of a company, small or large, we all struggle to maintain manufacturing files, component libraries, and dozens of small process steps that can make a successful production run an emergency trip to the factory.

Here are some areas that can be positively impacted by actions

Planning/Purchasing/ERP

The team that purchases components and places the orders for PCBs are not engineers, and they don’t want to be. AllSpice Actions can automate component checks to ensure parts are on an approved list, meet company specifications, and are below an authorized price. Actions ensure that invalid components don’t make it onto the BOM and that component issues are resolved early.

Automated price and availability reports help make purchasing more agile. Instead of compiling reports manually from many sources, quotes are updated whenever the BOM changes.

Test Engineering/Technicians/Assembly

Actions can help ensure that the correct test and mission firmware are in the Assembly release. Automated scripts can generate test coverage reports and make recommendations for test-points. Generate automatic mating PCBs and connectors to speed up test development.

Assembly information and corrective action reports can automatically create issues against designs, ensuring that design-manufacturing loops are closed.

Firmware/Software Development Teams

Firmware teams are no stranger to CI/CD platforms, and will feel right at home. AllSpice Actions is compatible with GitHub Actions and most automation can be ported. FW teams can run automated tests to ensure the code is tested, as well as validate test-fw.

Mechanical Engineering Teams

Enclosures are more expensive and time-consuming to design, with tooling often being the longest turn-around time for the project. It’s important that the PCBA fits and there is no interference. Automation helps synchronize MCAD design files onto our Automation file, where they can turn the files into a reviewable format, such as 3DPDF, PDF, SVG, DXF.

Quality Assurance

QA teams can associate verification data and corrective actions to specific design repos, and automatically sync a report to the design repository. Inline factory tests can synchronize their results in real-time, showcasing early trends and accurate information always on-demand.

Engineering Management

Engineering is hard, and there are never enough engineers on a project. Using Actions to remove repetitive and error prone steps, frees up engineers to work on more challenging problems. Herding designs to production has always been the biggest non-value add in the design process. Allspice Actions can give your engineers the relief they need to build new designs quickly