MEP EP#278: Design With Manufacturing - Altium and MacroFab

Show Notes

MEP EP#278: Design With Manufacturing - Altium and MacroFab

• Ted Pawela
  • Altium's Chief Ecosystem Officer
  • Head of Nexar, Altium's cloud business unit
  • Holds a M.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Michigan State University, a B.S in. Oceanographic Technology from Florida Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from IE Business School, Madrid, Spain
• Chris Church
  • Is a founder and the Chief Product Officer at MacroFab
  • Has been working in the software industry for over twenty years, with a focus on robotics and electronics over the last decade
  • Prior to MacroFab, he founded Dynamic Perception and Alert Logic
• Recent fundraising press release
• Altium's goals around connecting design engineers to manufacturing data
• Perspective on the role and level of control engineers have in manufacturing?
  • Will engineers take on a much bigger role with electronics production?
  • What about engineers being equally important to the supply chain and procurement process?
• What are you hearing from the engineers themselves? Are they pushing Altium to do more to enable manufacturing?
• What exactly is Nexar? How do you envision these services evolving?
• How MacroFab and Altium will work together to improve the design to manufacturing experience
• What are y’all looking forward to the most with this collaboration?

Creators & Guests

Host

Parker Dillmann

A Founder @MacroFab.Builds Electronics, Cars, & Jeeps.

Host

Stephen Kraig

EE

Producer

Chris Martin

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