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Smarter Test Plans for Inevitable Failures w/ Blue Clover CEO & Co-founder, Pete Staples

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Smarter Test Plans for Inevitable Failures w/ Blue Clover CEO & Co-founder, Pete Staples

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Chris and Melissa welcome Pete Staples, CEO & co-founder of Blue Clover Devices, for a deep dive into how to plan tests, capture evidence, and debug those mysterious boards that look perfect but don’t work.

Topics include:

  • Who is Blue Clover Devices & what’s the PLT?
  • Bed-of-nails, ICT, flying probe, and PLT
  • What assemblers really need when a board fails
  • Production test vs. validation
  • Updates on the Stick It Up Your Tube movement
  • Ben the Beaver

Links & resources

  • Blue Clover Devices — Production Line Tool (PLT).
    Blue Clover Devices
  • PLT Reference Docs (test plans, reports, hardware reference).
    docs.pltcloud.com+1
  • Blue Clover — Design-for-Test (DFT) Guide (request the PDF).
    Blue Clover Devices

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