Revisions & change control
Hardware Revision Control: A Practical Guide for Electronics Teams
Why hardware needs its own approach, what freezing actually means, a five-rule process, and a worked example over eighteen months.
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Revisions & change control
Revisions, releases, baselines and engineering change.
Revisions & change control
PCB Revision vs Assembly Revision: When Should Each One Change?
Nine changes over two years, three of which need new bare boards. A worked progression, a decision table, the edge cases, and the one rule that settles most of them.
Revisions & change control
Hardware Engineering Change Checklist: What Else Does This Change Touch?
A change to a design is never a change to one file. An impact map by change type, a checklist by artefact, and the three questions that catch the expensive misses.
Revisions & change control
Hardware Project Handover: What You Need If You Inherit a Design Tomorrow
Four questions for day one, an inventory for week one, the knowledge that is in nobody's files, and how to reconstruct a project when the engineer has already gone.
Revisions & change control
Version, Revision, Release, Baseline: Four Words, One Object
No authority settles these words, so two people can agree and mean nothing. How each is commonly used, where they collide, and how to make yours unambiguous.
Revisions & change control
ECR, ECO, ECN: What the Change Process Is Actually For
Request, decide, tell. One change followed end to end, what each document should contain, and the one-page version a small team can really sustain.
Revisions & change control
What Gets Frozen When You Release a Board?
Your files stay editable after release, so a baseline is a promise rather than a lock. What goes in one, the three ways teams freeze, and the smallest version that works.
Revisions & change control
Git and KiCad: What to Put in the Repository
Commit sources, generate everything else — plus the release exception, what Git genuinely gives hardware, what it cannot do, and where the boundary falls.
Revisions & change control
Reopening an Eight-Year-Old PCB Design: A Forensic Order of Work
Rank your evidence before you read any of it, start from a physical board, ask who kept copies, and write down what you could not establish.