Five Issues Your 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