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Automation and the smiley face of death

The pervasive trends of manpower reduction and the shift toward the use of foundry services have created a new set of challenges for designers attempting to bring a prototype design to reality. The manufacturing-transfer process has gone from one with engineering oversight to one of almost complete automation. Although this automation allows for consistency in data structure and format and represents an attempt at minimal conformance to a set of design rules, it does not necessarily account for engineers' waivers and designers' assumptions and interpretation of the rules.

Thursday 9 July, 2009 08:28 PM

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