The CR-8000 electronic CAD software, offered by the Zuken, software publisher, now accompanies the CR-5000 version which is already in use at CAO Concept and has been fully mastered by the team for many years.

A comprehensive constraint manager

This new version in particular offers a GUI update. It has a wide range of extensions that permit the entry of a large number of constraints related to electronic boards of all types. This increase in the constraint manager’s power provides the tool with an increased level of performance. Design rule checks are also the guarantee of upstream error prevention… for productivity optimisation and cost control.

This company investment, together with technician training, has been made to meet the needs and demands of its customers in the design and routing of electronic cards..

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After many years of good and loyal service, the old CAO Concept website retired at the end of August 2021. A new web platform is now in place. This in-depth update is accompanied by a graphical and visual brand evolution. A digital approach that is in line with market requirements and current and future electronic challenges facing the company, a member since 2017, within the WAE Group under the driving force of the new manager Frederic Fabre.

The new CAO Concept website has been designed to be as easy to consult on a desktop computer as on a mobile phone: in line with current usage, it is 100% available 24\7.

It is organised around your project in terms of electronic board CAD and prototyping. The starting point of our approach: tell us what your needs are, the CAO Concept team will then mobilise its skills, its dedicated software and workshop resources to, if necessary, specify it with you and then respond as comprehensively and quickly as possible.

Our complete range of services in electronic CAD, PCB placement and routing, electronic board prototyping

The Expertise page details the CAO Concept services that are at the heart of the business:

• Electronic board design and conception
• PCB routing
• Quality – ISO 9001
• DFM design
• Prototyping and small series
• Production

The References page describes four customer cases according to the following themes:

• Micro-electronics: Probe card production
• Power: design of a high current electronic board
• Industry: study of a high-speed signal card
• Aerospace: participation in the One Web project

Subsequent feedback will progressively flesh out this initial content: transport, media, IoT, consumer electronics.

CAO Concept, a participant in “French Fab”

Throughout these pages, you will see “Why choose us?” in relation to capacity to innovate, operational follow-up, advice, technical support… plus Made in France: the company’s headquarters are based in Angers with a secondary establishment in Rennes.

This online launch is accompanied by a design evolution with, in particular, a modernised logo, in keeping with the company, founded in 1987, DNA. It was bought in 2017 by Frédéric Fabre to make it one of the three units of WAE Group, alongside Quasar Concept and SERETEC. The ambition of the industrial group thus created is to offer a single-entry point from the idea and design of an electronic product to its mass production, marketing and after-sales service, via the design, prototyping, manufacturing and certification phases.