Five Issues Your PCB Assemblers Want You to Avoid

Chris Denney is CTO of Worthington Assembly and cohost of the ‘Pick, Place, Podcast’ podcast. He joins OnTrack to tell us about his talk, which is titled “Your Manufacturer Is Stupid - Help Them”. Learn the five tentpole problems your manufacturers have to deal with, and how avoiding these simple issues will speed your projects through assembly. 

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Show Highlights:

Humble beginnings; intro to Worthington Assembly CTO Chris Denney
Chris Gammel and the Amp Hour podcast
The story behind “Your Manufacturer is Stupid - Help Them”
No. 1: Identifying polarity of components
No. 2: Silkscreen legibility (avoid incurring extra costs)
No. 3: Panelization (why it matters)
No. 4: PCB properties (use a template)
No. 5 Specific manufacturer’s part numbers
Bonus tip: Plated Through-hole sizes
Worthington, Circuithub,and the Pick, Place, Podcast

Links and Resources:

Chris Denney on Linkedin
Worthington Assembly Blog (Includes Chris’s presentation from Kicon 2019)
CircuitHub Website
Design With Manufacturing Panel from AltiumLive 2020
Pick, Place, Podcast

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