BIG OPPORTUNITIES IN MINIMIZING MANUFACTURING VARIABILITY

摘要

At Mentor, we try to look for where there are things that are nonlinear, and, because of the way we structure our business, we don't have to worry so much about the incremental. We have general managers who run their businesses, who stay in close touch with their customers; they have complete responsibility and resources to start and stop product development and to support innovators in their organizations. There are two places where, at a corporate level, issues arise. One is where you have things that transcend multiple businesses where a strategy or direction is needed to tie them together. The other is in the area of discontinuities. In total revenue, in any given year, the discontinuities are small contributors because it takes so long for things in EDA to mature into products.