When Every Engineer Becomes a PCB Innovator

This paper examines how leading R&D teams are dissolving the boundary between PCB specialists and adjacent engineers—enabling mechanical, systems, and software engineers to directly contribute to board design and iteration. Through analysis of current workflows and emerging self-service capabilities, readers will understand how this democratization accelerates prototyping cycles and expands innovation capacity without adding headcount. The shift from specialist bottlenecks to distributed design capability represents a fundamental change in how hardware teams operate and compete.

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