Altium Vault technology plays a key role in the vault-driven electronics design methodology

It is also used to handle other data that could originate from the supply chain area. The highly relational structure of the data in an Altium Vault lends itself to powerful 'where used' capabilities making it easy to find out who used an item in which version of what product. Also, an Altium Vault includes an authentication server as well as a web server. In other words, whoever is allowed to access the data in a given Vault can do it with any web browser: The purchase department does not have to acquire a license to change the status of a component to obsolete. Product managers can approve a design for prototyping from an airport lounge; manufactures can grab the correct data for production.

So what exactly is ‘vault-driven electronics design’? In a nutshell, most companies will have different requirements when implementing proper data management. Altium develops not only the software and methodologies but also the hardware to create an inclusive process for design, manufacturing and production. Reinforced by the ever-growing experiences of our 40,000+ users this approach simply strives for the optimal way to design electronics using our tools and technologies moving forward. It is a collection of best practices in how to encapsulate data management into any company with the highest achievable data integrity, while offering as much design flexibility as possible. Altium empowers entire teams to design with freedom in a highly secure environment, with all employees involved working on the same system. Models can be reused in a new component, components in functional sub-circuits, functional sub-circuits in the design of a modular assembly and finally modular assembly in a larger design itself.##IMAGE_2_C##

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