Topic
Manufacturing files, release packages and what your supplier needs.
PCB & manufacturing
The three groups of files a manufacturing package contains, the errors that cost money, what to ask your manufacturer, and a checklist to work through before you send.
PCB & manufacturing
What each manufacturing file contains, who uses it, how they relate, and the four ways a centroid file goes wrong.
PCB & manufacturing
The checks before exporting, how to generate fabrication and assembly files, and the DNP gap between the schematic and the layout.
PCB & manufacturing
Twenty checks across design, BOM, manufacturing files and control, with a worked example of the one most likely to find something today.
PCB & manufacturing
Fabrication and assembly are usually two different companies doing two different jobs. Which files each one needs, what they share, and where the handover fails.
PCB & manufacturing
A fifteen-minute inspection you can run yourself, in order, before anything leaves your machine — plus the one class of error it will never catch.
PCB & manufacturing
Two hundred boards with every electrolytic in backwards, and nobody made a mistake. How origins and rotation references disagree, and how to catch it first.
PCB & manufacturing
The machine data says where every part goes. The drawing answers the dozen questions it cannot: the eight it has to cover, what belongs on it and what does not.
