Welcome to Concept CAD Ltd:
Concept CAD was formed in 2005 following the withdrawal of Celestica from the UK printed circuit board design market. Paul Butterworth and Glenn Shiels, both senior engineers at Celestica, made the decision to continue supplying quality designs and products to the UK market. Initial investment was in the Cadence Expert toolset before 2008 saw further growth. Significant spending on both design staff and software immediately resulted in an increase in the number of licenses being purchased.
Years of high-end exposure to Cadence Allegro PCB design tools have given us the experience and know-how required to offer the highest level of service to our customers. Consistent, quality designs and a high level of customer care has earned Concept CAD a reputation as being one of the UKs PCB Design specialists.
The Investment we have put into the Allegro Expert XL PCB design tools means we can provide services and features only offered by a small number of UK companies. It also enables us to design and control most aspects of circuit boards, both physical and electrical and our designers are experts in manually routing highly complex and complicated PCB designs.
We provide a professional, high quality service to all of our customers, and our commitment to meeting deadlines is unsurpassed in the industry. Our highly flexible printed circuit board design service ensures that your layout is completed to your exact specifications with our specialist approach to providing a complete contract PCB layout service meaning that quality is assured.
With locations in Nottingham, Manchester and Birmingham, and provision for on-site support anywhere in the UK, Concept CAD has the capacity to cope with the most demanding projects. Our engineers are available for anything from single day site visits to extended on site working. All have over fifteen years experience in PCB design and have many years experience in dealing directly with customers.
Concept CAD supply a professional
to the electronics industry. We are one of the top UK Cadence design bureaus in the country, able to draw on years of experience at the forefront of printed circuit board design by using the most powerful CAD tools available. As one of the few UK bureaus running the high performance Allegro Expert - XL suite, customers can be sure Concept CAD has the tools and skills required when it comes to high quality circuit board design.
We are proud to have provided PCB Designs to customers across the UK as well as several locations in Europe and the US. In addition to our comprehensive, in-house design service, we can also provide on-site contractors, who have years of experience supporting customers needs.
Why Choose Concept CAD?
Our designers are experts in complex PCB layout, focusing on the hand routing of efficient, cost effective circuit boards. All of our designers have considerable experience at the forefront of circuit board design. Unlike most other Cadence Allegro PCB design bureaus, Concept CAD has invested in the top of the range Cadence Allegro "Expert - XL" suite. These tools give Concept CAD the functionality to place and route boards faster and more efficiently.
We are flexible and able to assign extra effort where and when required, in order to guarantee design timescales are met. We also offer on-site support, additional hours, weekend working and shift work. In addition, we have delivered training courses in constraint management to respected companies such as
Why outsource to Concept CAD?
Many product designs require significant PCB design effort during the design cycle, however, at other times the layout requirement may be minimal. Using Concept CAD affords customers the scalability they need and the comfort of knowing that they'll have access to a highly skilled design team.
. PCB design contractors are available for short, mid and long term contracts as you require. In addition, we can also offer an onsite and offsite mix as necessary to ensure that both timescales and cost constraints are met. Our contract PCB designers have years of experience supporting customers onsite PCB design. We have provided PCB Design resource to customers across the UK as well as several locations in Europe and the US.