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Populating MOLEX receptacles at industrial scale

I am a manufacturing engineer charged with implementing process improvements that reduce the total time to build an article. Our volume is such that a one minute reduction in labour results in £1K-£2K ...
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How to Design method to Program & Calibrate a Panel of PCBs

I'm designing a sensor-package PCB which needs to be programmed and calibrated while still in a panel of 10. I'd like to avoid a large bed-of-nails type setup for this step so that the panel can ...
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Custom fiber optic cable simulation

I am looking to create a custom & precise static optical distribution along the length of a fiber optic cable. The idea involves manipulating an optical fiber during manufacturing to produce the ...
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How can a designer be sure to authorize only legit ICs? How is performed? How are cloned ICs prevented to be activated?

The above diagram is from the IC Activation (locking/unlocking) slide of Fighting against theft, cloning and counterfeiting of integrated circuits by Lilian Bossuet Associate Professor, CNRS Chaire of ...
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How to prevent solder getting into through hole during HASL process?

I think this is an easy enough question - I just don't know how to effectively search for the answer. I have a PCB that came back and the programming header is plugged with solder. This most likely ...
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