MEP EP#266: The Expert
- Webinar that Chris Church (Co-Founder of MacroFab) will be co-hosting with Edwin Robledo of AutoDesk.
- Building a Program and Testing procedure for your first production run
- Take lots of pictures
- Keep it up to date and version controlled
- Hand off the procedure to a colleague and have them run through it
- Work with your CM
- MacroFab works closely to help flesh out procedures and fixture designs
- What is you acceptable fall out from production
- This is where scaling up production runs can help iron out QA procedures for your product
- Find tolerancing issues with components
- Keep in mind your target pricing
- Elements of a good test procedure - THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND
- It is almost impossible to have too much information in your test procedure - within reason.
- Remember - Your CM can always distill your information down to something less than what you provide
- Typically they have one “expert” who knows everything and multiple operators who execute the tasks.
- You don’t know when your documentation is needed so be thorough
- Things to include in the documentation - preferably at the top
- Product/assembly name
- Test procedure Rev
- List of board revisions that this procedure applies to
- Map or image of terms or items
- List of ALL software required
- Do not assume that your CM has anything
- If software version is important make sure this is called out
- List of ALL files required
- Be explicit with the names
- Do not be shy with file structure
- Be consistent
- If you call a board X then always call it X
- Test procedure Meat and potatoes
- List of required equipment
- What can be expected of a CM to have?
- Be granular here. All the way down to cables
- Do not be afraid to call out amazon links to required items
- Avoid parallel anything - Sequential steps are the best
- Always have criteria and be reasonable!
- consider how the operator will approach your target and adjust accordingly!
- Failures - Let the operator know what to do with a failure
- If anything is to be marked or saved be explicit how and where to do it. If there is a sticker or label to be applied show a picture where you want it to go.