Once, just once, would I love to have a design guy come on down in the trenches with us "floor rats" and walk a while in our shoes...kinda' hard to do though that when you work in a contract assembly company. Most of the time things are just thrown over the wall. Can't no-bid things no matter how ugly it looks...I'm sure some of you been there.
We get boards with 20-mil pitch 208-pin QFP's on them and no fiducials, boards that have tons of through-hole going through both sides of the board, the list goes on and on...fun stuff, eh?
But as it was put to me one time in the past; "Steve, if it was easy, anybody could do it, and you would probably be bored to death...". I'd like to see how bored I would get....hehehe.
-Steve Gregory-
hi,
seriously, this is one of the best approaches i can think of. some companies actually have designers work for different functions within the company before they start designing...like procurement, quality, and manufacturing.
i find that the best designers are those that spend a lot of time on the production floor asking about their designs, seeing how they go together, actively making changes to improve the process. you can guess who the worst ones are.
phil