#smt
5 posts tagged with "smt".
May 4, 2026
~6 min read
A 180-degree rotation error on a polarized capacitor causes a short circuit. A three-tier heuristic system catches most of them. The IPC-2581 standard would make the whole problem obsolete.
April 27, 2026
~7 min read
Every component on a PCB has a physical body width. Every nozzle has an outer diameter. If the nozzle is too large, it drops the part. Here is the 1,600-line async pipeline that validates this at scale.
April 20, 2026
An optical defect and the machine event that caused it happen minutes apart and live in separate databases. Time-windowing SQL joins close the loop — here is how.
March 9, 2026
A 10kΩ resistor has at least eight names in the wild. Here is how a regex-driven normalization engine turns manufacturing chaos into a canonical data layer.
February 9, 2026
Every manufacturing team has that one Excel macro — the one nobody touches. Here's why I finally killed ours and what I built instead.