CAM350 (1.4 MB)

DownStream Technologies is a software company focused on serving the high tech electronics manufacturing market. We deliver solutions that allow engineering and manufacturing teams to work together to transition engineering designs into physical products. Our core products support the verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) designs early in the product development process to ensure that they can be easily produced in follow-on PCB fabrication processes. We also provide a suite of tools that support various functions within the PCB fabrication company including sales, manufacturing engineering, PCB etching, NC drilling and milling, solder masking, and bare board testing operations. By providing solutions on both sides of the engineering and manufacturing chasm we believe we are in a unique position to help our customers bring products to market faster than alternative solutions.

Today’s high tech design complexities resulting from smaller, faster and less expense electronic products, requires careful transitioning of engineering data into the PCB fabrication process. Electronic engineering organizations now recognize that problems arising during PCB fabrication can drastically impact product schedules, cause costly design re-spins, or may require modifications to the design after release from engineering, compromising design integrity and intent.

The PCB fabricator is also faced with similar issues. Shorter fabrication turn around times mean less time to ensure the design can be fabricated and will not run into problems during the fabrication process. The paradox of faster turn around at lower cost, creates higher risks with PCB yields which in turn drives up PCB costs. The fabricator must ensure that process tasks such as manufacturing engineering, PCB etching, NC drilling and milling operations, and bare board test, can be conducted as smoothly and efficiently as possible so delivery schedules can be met without compromising PCB quality or performance.

These design issues are requiring more interaction between engineering and fabrication to communicate fabrication requirements as effectively as possible. Because most fabrication issues are not found until fabrication, even good communication between designer and fabricator is no longer adequate to meet time-to-market objectives.

Our primary product is CAM350 and is a highly customizable and scalable solution that can be targeted at both the engineering and PCB fabrication communities. CAM350 supports the Microsoft Windows and NT operating systems through either node locked or networked configurations.

CAM350 is a complete PCB fabrication flow used by PCB designers and fabricators. CAM350 for Engineering mitigates PCB fabrication errors early in the design process with robust Design for Fabrication (DFF) verification. CAM350 for Fabrication leverages design data to drive and optimize the fabrication process through manufacturing engineering, sales, etching, and NC drill/mill processes to ensure higher board yields in shorter time frames. Unlike low-end CAM tools that lack functionality to handle today’s complex designs or high-end tools that are extremely expensive to own and maintain, CAM350 provides superior price/performance value in an easy-to-use product suite delivering fast, accurate and deep CAM functionality.

DownStream also offers a number of add on modules to CAM350 that increases the core products functionality. These modules can be added or removed based on customers requirements and allows us to tier our products to stratify the market and provide solutions regardless of our customers technological or financial requirements.