Ep. 86: Smarter Test Plans for Inevitable Failures w/ Blue Clover CEO & Co-founder, Pete Staples

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).
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• Blue Clover — Design-for-Test (DFT) Guide (request the PDF).
  Blue Clover Devices