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Learning Hub Webinars From Design to First Assembly: Complete Your BOM & Plan Your Build

From Design to First Assembly: Complete Your BOM & Plan Your Build

Discover how BOM Portal and Assembly Assistant take you from a released design to prototype-ready in minutes, not days.

After releasing your PCB design and generating manufacturing files, the real race begins: preparing your BOM, sourcing parts, and assembling your first prototypes. Yet this phase is where many teams lose days or weeks to manual spreadsheet work, scattered supplier research, and error-prone hand assembly without guidance. Join us for a hands-on walkthrough of the complete post-release workflow, from creating and enriching your BOM inside BOM Portal through to placing parts on your first board with Assembly Assistant, showing you how to close the gap between design completion and a working prototype.

What You'll Learn

  • Prepare a prototype-ready BOM without leaving Altium 365: Create a Managed BOM directly from your released project, automatically enrich it with lifecycle, compliance, pricing, and stock data, and resolve missing manufacturer part numbers — all in one interface.
  • Identify and resolve supply chain risks before they delay your build: Use automated issue detection to find obsolete parts, source confident alternates, and optimize your BOM for the fewest number of suppliers to simplify ordering and reduce cost.
  • Go from finalized BOM to parts on order in minutes: Release your BOM to prototype stage and use the integrated Octocart workflow to place orders directly with major distributors — no more copying part numbers into supplier websites.
  • Assemble your first prototype boards with guided, visual assistance: Learn how Assembly Assistant replaces printed-out assembly drawings and manual part hunting with an interactive, step-by-step placement guide that reduces errors and speeds up hand assembly.

Why Attend?

  • See the complete workflow from a released PCB design to parts on order and boards assembled
  • Understand how automated data enrichment eliminates hours of manual component research
  • Learn how to find alternates for obsolete parts and optimize your supplier strategy in one place
  • Discover how Assembly Assistant transforms error-prone hand assembly into a guided, visual process
  • Ask questions directly to experts during the live Q&A session

Who Should Attend?

  • PCB Designers & Electronics Engineers looking to accelerate the path from design release to working prototype without manual BOM cleanup.
  • Procurement Specialists & Buyers seeking a streamlined, data-enriched BOM workflow that reduces supplier research and ordering overhead.
  • NPI & Prototype Engineers responsible for getting first articles built quickly and accurately.
  • Engineering Managers & Team Leads wanting to reduce the time and rework between design completion and prototype validation.
  • Any hardware team that has experienced delays, BOM errors, or assembly mistakes during the prototype phase.
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From Design to First Assembly: Complete Your BOM & Plan Your Build

Created: August 21, 2026
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Discover how BOM Portal and Assembly Assistant take you from a released design to prototype-ready in minutes, not days.
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  • Hosted by Fabian Winkler - Product Marketing Manager
    00:22:36 • Aug 19, 2026
    Hosted by Fabian Winkler - Product Marketing Manager
    00:22:36 • Aug 19, 2026

     Discover how BOM Portal and Assembly Assistant take you from a released design to prototype-ready in minutes, not days.

  • Présenté par Majdi Thouabtia - Field Application Engineer
    00:29:12 • Aug 20, 2026
    Présenté par Majdi Thouabtia - Field Application Engineer
    00:29:12 • Aug 20, 2026

     Découvrez comment passer d’une conception validée à un prototype prêt en quelques minutes, et non en quelques jours, grâce à BOM Portal et Assembly Assistant.

  • Präsentiert von Martin Malenica - Field Application Engineer
    00:19:41 • Aug 20, 2026
    Präsentiert von Martin Malenica - Field Application Engineer
    00:19:41 • Aug 20, 2026

    Entdecken Sie, wie Sie mit dem BOM Portal und dem Bestückungsassistenten schon in Minuten vom freigegebenen Design zum fertigen Prototyp kommen – statt erst nach Tagen.

  • Presentato da Francesco Cecchetti - Field Application Engineer
    00:21:30 • Aug 20, 2026
    Presentato da Francesco Cecchetti - Field Application Engineer
    00:21:30 • Aug 20, 2026

     Scopri come BOM Portal e Assembly Assistant ti consentono di passare da un progetto rilasciato a un prototipo pronto in pochi minuti, non in giorni.

  • Presentado por Francesco Cecchetti - Field Application Engineer
    00:17:58 • Aug 20, 2026
    Presentado por Francesco Cecchetti - Field Application Engineer
    00:17:58 • Aug 20, 2026

     Descubre cómo BOM Portal y Assembly Assistant te llevan de un diseño liberado a tener el prototipo listo en minutos, no en días.

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Discover how BOM Portal and Assembly Assistant take you from a released design to prototype-ready in minutes, not days. 

After releasing your PCB design and generating manufacturing files, the real race begins: preparing your BOM, sourcing parts, and assembling your first prototypes. Yet this phase is where many teams lose days or weeks to manual spreadsheet work, scattered supplier research, and error-prone hand assembly without guidance. Join us for a hands-on walkthrough of the complete post-release workflow, from creating and enriching your BOM inside BOM Portal through to placing parts on your first board with Assembly Assistant, showing you how to close the gap between design completion and a working prototype.

What You'll Learn

  • Prepare a prototype-ready BOM without leaving Altium 365: Create a Managed BOM directly from your released project, automatically enrich it with lifecycle, compliance, pricing, and stock data, and resolve missing manufacturer part numbers — all in one interface.
  • Identify and resolve supply chain risks before they delay your build: Use automated issue detection to find obsolete parts, source confident alternates, and optimize your BOM for the fewest number of suppliers to simplify ordering and reduce cost.
  • Go from finalized BOM to parts on order in minutes: Release your BOM to prototype stage and use the integrated Octocart workflow to place orders directly with major distributors — no more copying part numbers into supplier websites.
  • Assemble your first prototype boards with guided, visual assistance: Learn how Assembly Assistant replaces printed-out assembly drawings and manual part hunting with an interactive, step-by-step placement guide that reduces errors and speeds up hand assembly.

Why Attend?

  • See the complete workflow from a released PCB design to parts on order and boards assembled
  • Understand how automated data enrichment eliminates hours of manual component research
  • Learn how to find alternates for obsolete parts and optimize your supplier strategy in one place
  • Discover how Assembly Assistant transforms error-prone hand assembly into a guided, visual process
  • Ask questions directly to experts during the live Q&A session

Who Should Attend?

  • PCB Designers & Electronics Engineers looking to accelerate the path from design release to working prototype without manual BOM cleanup.
  • Procurement Specialists & Buyers seeking a streamlined, data-enriched BOM workflow that reduces supplier research and ordering overhead.
  • NPI & Prototype Engineers responsible for getting first articles built quickly and accurately.
  • Engineering Managers & Team Leads wanting to reduce the time and rework between design completion and prototype validation.
  • Any hardware team that has experienced delays, BOM errors, or assembly mistakes during the prototype phase.

Author

Author

Majdi Thouabtia’s background is in electrical engineering, with several years of experience in hardware development and technical project management. He has worked across the full hardware lifecycle, from EMC-compliant circuit design and PCB layout to prototyping, testing, and production. Throughout my career, Altium Designer has been a key tool in his daily work, so he is especially proud to now be part of the team behind it.

Before joining Altium, he contributed to projects in the EV charging and IoT sectors, leading development efforts and collaborating with cross-functional teams and external partners. He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

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Martin Malenica has a masters in electronic and computer engineering at the University of Zagreb. His previous experience consists of multiple embedded systems positions at robotics start-ups (Gideon with USD 35m in Seed and Series-A funding) and SMEs. His engineering strengths lie in system architecture, PCB design and embedded programming. Aside from engineering, Martin has spent the last 1.5 years working at a leading European management consulting firm, where he focused on strategies to support large OEMs and Tier-1s regarding the current semiconductor shortage across the whole EMEA region. Martin has practical experience within AD, but also a good understanding of competitor tools, especially on the procurement and supply chain side, like Everstream, Resilinc, Silicon Expert, Z2Data etc. Martin Joined Altium in 2023 as part of the Technical Sales team in Germany.
 

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Francesco holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from EPFL, Switzerland. He is currently part of the Field Applications Engineering team at Altium. During his studies, his primary focus was on bioelectronics and the microfabrication of biomedical implants. After graduating, Francesco transitioned into a technical sales role with a global supplier and manufacturer of custom magnetics, where he was responsible for both technical and sales discussions, serving as the liaison between design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and customers.

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October 22, 2026 3:00 PM Register
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Watch Video
01:00:30 Introducing the Requirements & Systems Portal Watch our webinar to learn about the application of the Altium 365 suite. Requirements & Systems Portal will help align engineering teams to get to market quicker Watch Video
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00:37:54 Safety & Reliability in Electronics Design – Strategies, Standards & Tools How can development teams and decision-makers effectively implement safety, security, and compliance without delaying innovation? Watch Video
00:41:02 Altium Customization with Scripting or Low-Code See how scripting, low-code, no-code, and API integrations can help you work more efficiently—without extra setup or complex systems. Watch Video

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Depending on your relationship with Altium, the services offered on the Altium Platform will be experienced from within Altium Designer and through the platform's browser-based interface. This page takes a look at the latter and provides an overview of what you'll see when you register an Altium Account and sign in to the Altium Platform Interface. For the latest information on the security,…

Read Documentation
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The BOM Portal interface provides options and features that allow you to set up the system to match your specific needs for the current Managed BOM. These include configuring the sourced supplier data to your company's requirements, and working with the BOM listing in a manner that suits your processes. BOM Settings The BOM Settings window, opened from the BOM Settings option in the main menu,…

Read Documentation
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Altium's MCAD CoDesigner technology connects the mechanical and electrical design domains, allowing the mechanical and electronic engineers to pass the loaded PCB back and forth between the two domains. In your Altium design software, this is achieved through an extension that loads and extracts board and component data from the PCB editor, the MCAD CoDesigner extension. In the MCAD software the…

Read Documentation
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The Workspace provides an advanced, manufacturing-oriented CAD-centric view of the project. This management interface offers Design, Tasks, and History views options, plus more: Design – display and navigate source project design documents, view design object properties and place review comments. This view uses the Web Viewer interface to present your design across five distinct data sub-views,…

Read Documentation
Web Viewer Web Viewer

The Altium 365 Web Viewer interface provides universal access to PCB project documents through a standard web browser. Much more than just a web-based viewer, its advanced browser technology allows users to navigate through the project structure, interact with design documents, extract information about elements in the design, and highlight areas or objects for commenting notes. When viewing…

Read Documentation
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There are three ways to create requirements in Requirements Portal: Creating manually Importing Requirements Use the Engineering Assistant to generate requirements based on a prompt This page describes how to create Requirements by manually adding the necessary information. To get more insights on the other two options, please use the links to get to the corresponding documentation. To add a new…

Read Documentation
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Read Documentation
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AI agents provide substantial advantages for engineering tasks like requirements capturing by significantly enhancing efficiency and automating complex, repetitive workflows. Requirements Portal's Engineering Assistant leverages AI technologies to provide you with fast, automated review tool for your requirements that allows you to ask questions about requirements in your current project in free…

Read Documentation
Insights Insights

The Insights feature in the requirements module provides a comprehensive visual summary of the current requirements status within the specification/section within your project. This interactive tool offers a high-level overview of various aspects, such as the state, verification status, and discussion activity on the requirements related to requirements across different folders, specifications,…

Read Documentation
Specifying the Product Specifying the Product

In this part of the tutorial, we will go through one of the primary user flows that can get you started using Requirements Portal: Gather and write requirements Breakdown requirements Review and improve requirements Approve and release specifications Creating a New Project On Requirements Portal's Home page (accessed when you open Requirements Portal from the nine-dot menu at the top right of the…

Read Documentation
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