Scancad International Inc

10/08/2026

Travis Loving, our CEO, is having quite a lot of fun at the SMTA Guadalajara show!

10/07/2026

The Surface Mount Technology Association - SMTA Guadalajara show is underway and we're stoked to be here! Be sure to stop by Usm reps booth #910 to connect with our team!

09/30/2026

Did you know that we moved into a new office space? Read all about our adventure here: https://scancad.net/we-moved-it-took-about-a-day/

And know that we would love to host you! We now have a lab that is separated from the office and a bunch of other exciting features. Be sure to check it out and let us know what you think!

Follow along on our office move. And yes; it happened in a single day.

09/29/2026

Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA) Guadalajara Expo is taking place October 7-8 and we're looking forward to connecting with you there! If you are interested in chatting about your specific needs, we would love to set aside time for a one-to-one meeting. You can easily book with us here:

https://calendar.app.google/9yZZryjw9whtWLKb8

Be sure to stop by USM Reps booth #910 to connect with our team!

09/17/2026

Be sure to join us at the upcoming SMTA Guadalajara Expo and Tech Forum taking place in a few weeks! We're excited to be participating -- you will find us at the USM Reps booth. It's a great time to consider booking a 60-minute meeting with us during the show. Our schedule will surely fill up.
Travis Loving

Book it here: https://calendar.app.google/9yZZryjw9whtWLKb8

09/14/2026

The Perfect Storm: Aging Plants, Surging Demand

America’s nuclear fleet is experiencing a renaissance it wasn’t designed for.

Reactors built in the 1970s and 1980s—originally licensed for 40 years—are now being extended to 60, even 80 years of operation. Plants once slated for retirement are being restarted. The reason? Unprecedented power demand driven by AI data centers, electrification, and the urgent need for carbon-free baseload generation.

But here’s the challenge: the electronics inside these plants weren’t built for an 80-year mission. Instrumentation and control systems, safety logic, power conversion equipment—the silicon hearts of reactor operations—reached obsolescence decades ago. Original equipment manufacturers have long since discontinued these components. The secondary market is drying up.

The plants must run. The parts don’t exist. And redesign? That’s where the real problem begins.

Read about how we can support customers in nuclear power:
https://scancad.net/nuclear-energy/

09/10/2026

Be sure to join us at the upcoming SMTA Guadalajara Expo and Tech Forum taking place in October! We're excited to be participating -- you will find us at the USM Reps booth.

It's a great time to consider booking a 60-minute meeting with us during the show.

Book it here: https://calendar.app.google/9yZZryjw9whtWLKb8

09/02/2026

The Boards that End Up Here

Every engineering organization eventually meets a board that resists. Sixteen-plus layers. Blind and buried vias. Fine-pitch geometry under thick conformal coating. One surviving unit, no documentation, no margin for a destroyed layer.

Those boards tend to end up in Conifer, Colorado — sent by some of the most capable engineering groups in defense, aerospace, and medical electronics. Thirty years ago, scanner-based PCB reverse engineering was not a product category. There was no software to buy, so we wrote it. No reliable way to delaminate a multilayer board without destroying fine traces, so we developed one. ScanFAB and the Precision Material Removal System (PMRS) exist because real boards demanded them — and today they run in 50+ countries.

Follow a Board Through the Shop
It starts with the BOM. The board is depopulated component by component — reference designators, values, tolerances, part numbers, datasheets where they can be found. This comes first for a simple reason: depopulation produces the bare board, and there is no delaminating a populated one. The BOM is accepted as a first draft and the work moves on, because the rest of the process is built to audit it.

Then delamination and scanning. The board comes down layer by layer, each captured as a high-resolution, NIST-calibrated image. Three decades of stackups teach you the point where one more pass costs a feature.

The images become Ge**er. Reconstructing Ge**er 274X from calibrated raster means recognizing plane splits, thermal reliefs, and registration artifacts that automated conversion alone will miss. The result matches the original copper down to the mil — every layer, including the inner ones.

The Ge**er yields pick-and-place, and the tracks converge at the netlist. Our proprietary netlist software, ConvertPLUS ARE, uses the centroid to locate every part, backtracks connectivity through the Ge**er, and applies pin numbering from the BOM’s datasheets — producing netlists in IPC-D-356A, IPC-2581, and ODB++.

Then the netlist is interrogated. An AI-assisted analysis backend works out what the circuits are actually doing and checks whether the netlist and BOM describe a design that makes electrical sense — surfacing part misidentifications before a schematic is ever drawn.

Last, the schematic. Our exclusive conversion software compiles netlist and BOM into native schematics for OrCAD, Altium, PADS, and other ECAD systems, plus an intelligent PDF a designer can trace net by net. A fully editable native board layout is available as an add-on.

The schematic is also the final audit: an electrical engineer reads it the way a designer would and judges whether the circuit is rational. That is the fullest validation a BOM can receive short of building the board and powering it on.

Read the entire blog post here:
https://scancad.net/the-boards-that-end-up-here/

08/26/2026

Be sure to join us at the upcoming SMTA Guadalajara Expo and Tech Forum taking place in October! We're excited to be participating -- you will find us at the USM Reps booth. It's a great time to consider booking a 60-minute meeting with us during the show.

Book it here: https://calendar.app.google/9yZZryjw9whtWLKb8

08/21/2026

Take control of your fleet's future and protect billion-dollar investments. As you know, transit authorities face a fundamental choice in obsolescence management: taking a reactive or proactive approach. And it's clear which is the preferred approach.

Reactive approach

Wait for failures, scramble for remaining inventory, pay premium prices, accept extended downtime when parts cannot be found.

Proactive approach

Identify critical assemblies before they become unavailable, create technical data packages while working examples exist, establish reliable manufacturing sources.

ScanCAD enables the proactive approach. By reverse engineering critical boards before inventory is exhausted, transit systems can:

Avoid premium secondary market pricing

Eliminate dependency on diminishing original inventory

Establish predictable manufacturing costs

Maintain operational readiness across the full fleet lifecycle

Read more: https://scancad.net/mass-transit/