Powerful engineering graphic editing

Frontline InFlow’s engineering graphic editor allows engineers to manage design data read-in, cleanup and analysis, and the entire engineering process, reducing reliance on CAM resources. Compare layers and steps, automate CAM scripts and save the MI database locally for future use.

Generate critical measurement (POI) reports

Quickly generate consistent Critical Measurement reports with the Control Table feature that runs an automatic process based on engineering graphic analysis.

Create and track technical queries

High speed and 5G-ready

Meet customer requirements for high speed and 5G.

• Ensure loss budget compliance through improved loss calculation attenuation.
• Comply with cost-optimized design intent through inlay modeling.
• Model heat dissipation structures, coins and cavities.
• View and mark impedance lines for the shop floor; validate against extreme impedance variances.
• Optimize panels while maintaining impedance and attenuation consistency by auto-rotating PCBs and coupons.

Interactive flex tools (Flex customers only)

Speed up flex panelization and tooling hole placement with interactive panel editing tools.

Rules-driven process planning and engineering

Automate engineering work through rules-driven process planning, and quickly produce high-quality manufacturing instructions.

Automatic stackup, BOM, traveler and CAM execution

Automate stackup design, BOMs and travelers and generate Frontline InCAM Pro CAM Guides to speed up CAM instruction execution.

Easy integration with CAM and ERP

Prevent errors by reducing data transfer and conversion between CAM and Engineering through CAM and ERP integration.

Automatic panel design and tooling

Whether it’s one-click panel, array and sheet design or guaranteed impedance and attenuation consistency, Frontline InFlow’s panel design and tooling solution ensures the best possible material utilzation to keep costs down and enable optimized BOMs that meet customer and manufacturing requirements.

Optimize NC drill bit selection

Frontline InFlow optimizes NC drill bit selection by considering both design and manufacturing requirements. Define pilot holes and unify bits that meet cost and yield requirements.

Automatic CAM execution

Speed up CAM instruction execution by automatically generating Frontline InCAM Pro CAM Guides.

Engaging user interface. Positive user experience

Frontline InFlow’s clear and simple user experience helps improve operational efficiency by placing everything exactly where you need it – from viewing MI graphic data in the Buildup Editor to quickly managing impedance constraints and viewing and marking impedance lines.

Optimize stackup costs and manufacturability

Achieve consistent, cost-optimized stackup designs and deliver customized stackup outputs that support all rigid material types. Run production simulations for thickness, impedance and cost with results directed and graded according to your priorities. Simplified, accessible stackup image APIs support complex reports.

Control signal integrity for high speed

• Speed up automatic stackup with impedance.
• Reduce impedance-related scrap with accurate modeling.
• Solve impedance and other parameters for multiple PCB structures.
• Use the same proven solver engine used by board designers.

Automatic traveler and BOM creation

Boost productivity and optimize process planning by creating standardized travelers and BOMs containing high-quality manufacturing instructions – in a click! All BOMs include stackup and process materials. Cut hours of work to minutes without reinventing the wheel each time. Maintain up-to-date engineering expertise and automatically upload to outputs to ERP.

Automate engineering processes with engineering guided flows

Create step-by-step standardized engineering workflows to enable operational efficiency and consistency and improve quality and speed. Track the job flow and operator actions.

Manage specs

The Frontline InFlow Spec Manager ensures high-yield manufacturing that meets customer spec requirements:

• Save time and ensure consistency and quality.
• Make sure manufacturing capabilities meet customer and industry requirements.

Automatic customized reports

Frontline InFlow automatically creates all reports for all departments – stackup, BOM, traveler and CAM instructions.

• Easily share knowledge with management.
• Improve business decision-making.
• Powerful and easy to use.

Automatically prepare CAM instructions for CAM operators

Automatically generate CAM instructions by rules to be sent to Frontline InCAM Pro/Frontline Genesis. Print customized reports.

Import CAM data

• Read in standard industry formats (Gerber, ODB++ Design, IPC etc.) to quickly create engineering jobs.
• Seamlessly integrate CAM data and data from your back end system to achieve absolute consistency and to ensure that job data is up-to-date. Frontline InFlow integrates with your back-end system by incorporating customer, materials, and manufacturing operation data.
• Merge CAM data with existing jobs to accelerate repeat order and ECN processing.
• Selectively maintain buildup, stackup, drills and layer data.
• Selectively sync data to manually created Frontline InPlan job.
• Integrate CAM data in jobs created from stackup exchange (from Frontline InStack Design).

Calculate product manufacturing costs

Calculate the cost of product manufacturing a PCB and its associated tools:

• Ensure marginal manufacturing by checking the sanity of quoted prices.
• Maintain consistency in your cost assessments.
• Introduce manufacturing cost awareness to your engineering work.