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When you are in the middle of a product development cycle or validating a remedy for a recurring field problem, you may plan or, out of necessity, decide to assemble a few PCBs manually. There are times when the manual assembly of boards in-house yields results faster than any other alternative, and many companies include such assembly in their product development lifecycle. A typical process for manual assembly includes printing out the design...

Getting design files to customers used to require a thumb drive, DVD-RW, or emails before we had the cloud. Even though today’s cloud platforms are immaculately secure and they allow a range of files to be easily shared, there are times where you should limit the data you’re sharing to only the critical files required. For PCB designers, this means either sharing entire design projects or sharing individual files with your manufacturer, customers...

Printed circuit boards are fun to design and lay out, but a PCB will need an enclosure to hold it mechanically stable. PCB enclosures can be purchased off-the-shelf, or you can create a custom enclosure design using MCAD software. No matter which route you take to create your enclosure, you’ll need to import your PCB layout into MCAD tools to ensure your board and components will not interfere with the enclosure. When you’re working with a...

If you have experience working on PCB design teams, either in a single location or remotely, you've probably seen your share of successful and failed projects. Any project can fail or be severely delayed for a variety of reasons, and sometimes, the stars must align to ensure everything is delivered on time and under budget. Even after making many mistakes that caused project delays and fragmented team members, I'm still learning what it takes to...

The global PCBA market is projected to reach USD 90.91 billion by 2025, driven by the rapid growth of consumer electronics, automotive systems, and industrial automation. But within this booming sector, one segment is moving faster than the rest: rapid PCBA prototyping. This article delves into how sourcing strategies must evolve when speed is the primary objective. Drawing from our experience and insights from Altium’s integrated tools, we will...

Executive Insights Into Electronic Product Development Gaps You Need To Close The following custom research study - conducted by Forrester Consulting - surveyed 412 executives and decision-makers across North America, EMEA, and APAC. They surveyed executives and their responses highlighted and quantified industry-wide challenges, strategic priorities, and expected outcomes driven by the need to modernize electronics hardware development. Key...

Managing software projects in Jira is straightforward: build a backlog of user stories and technical tasks, prioritize them, select the top ones for execution in the upcoming sprint, and voila! You are managing the project.  Unfortunately, as shared in previous articles, this doesn’t work for hardware.  Why "Normal" Agile Project Management Struggles for Hardware You need early architectural clarity, coordination across EE/FW/ME/Supply Chain...

Jira, originally designed for software development teams, has become a widely used tool for agile project management. While its default setup caters to software teams using frameworks like Scrum or Kanban, hardware development projects have unique challenges that require a different approach to consider hard constraints, long lead times, and dependencies across mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software disciplines. Despite these challenges...