Why Actions matters to engineering teams

In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, the demands on team efficiency are more intense than ever. Companies want to stay competitive and innovative and engineering teams are under immense pressure to accelerate development cycles, deliver high-quality products, and adapt quickly to evolving market needs—all while navigating tight deadlines and budget constraints.

As a result, organizations are seeking solutions that not only enhance efficiency but also streamline processes and improve productivity. This is where tools like AllSpice Actions come into play, offering a way to meet these heightened demands by automating critical tasks and optimizing workflows.

Key benefits

AllSpice Actions is designed to automate many manual tasks. By implementing Actions, teams can forget about those manual tasks and focus on the actual important work. We are seeing that hardware teams that leverage Actions to automate their tasks benefit from:

1. Increased Efficiency

From checking connections to calculating the cost of your designs, there are a wide range of manual tasks that you can automate with actions and boost your engineering efficiency. The most common use-cases are automating internal, functional, supply chain, and procurement tasks, saving your team’s time and allowing them to do more with less.

2. Product Quality

To build a great product you need a curated testing process. However, human errors are always a possibility. With actions, you can automate your testing processes so errors can be caught as soon as design changes are made. This means issues like incomplete libraries, mismatched footprints, forbidden or unavailable parts are identified from day one, reducing the back and forth and improving your overall product quality.

3. Process Standardization

Build and apply standardized workflows across projects. This drives consistency among engineers, teams, ensuring uniform formats, syntax, release packages, artifacts and data control.

4. Reduced Administrative Work

By automatically generating project reports and documentation your team reduces administrative busy work. This allows engineers to focus on creating better products, resolving issues and tackling impactful tasks.

5. Improved Team Communication

Actions enhance team communication by storing relevant information in a single source of truth for your projects. It’s not only about generating the reports, but also uploading and sharing them so the right people can access them.

In summary, AllSpice Actions helps engineers work more efficiently, detect errors early, standardize processes, reduce administrative tasks, and improve team communication, leading to a smoother and more effective hardware development process that meets todays market needs.

Key use cases

Nowadays, it’s normal for hardware team to have several manual tasks that they need to do along the product development lifecycle like design checks or updating a bill of materials (BOM). With AllSpice Actions hardware teams can automate these tasks, so they don’t have to worry more about them and focus on the things that really matter.

Is there a limit on the things we can do?

That’s the most important part: there are almost no limits. Actions are built and controlled by your team. They can cover a lot of use cases and could be as powerful as you want. They help meet business goals by improving developer productivity and addressing engineering needs by maintaining control over proprietary data and managing access to designs.

You can also leverage already made actions that need little-to-zero adjustments in order to be implemented by your team. These pre-made actions are called Action Add-ons and you can see the list of current add-ons in our Actions Library

Common Actions use-cases:

• Generating manufacturing files like BOM, Drill file, XY Positions

• Knowing where a part is being used (where-used)

• Automated static checks/review

• Part availability check

• Cost of Goods Sold (C.O.G.S.)

• Verification parts in APL (Approved Parts List)

Other Actions use-cases: