The Factory | Optimising PCB Assembly For Pick & Place Machine

We're talking pick-and-place optimisation today on The Factory, and introduce the (new and improved) PiicoDev Colour Sensor prototype.

This week's production run of 4-channel Logic Level Converters got us thinking about how we can speed up this assembly with a productivity hack. By treating the whole panel as a single PCB, rather than a repeated tiling of circuit boards, we could reduce the assembly time of this design by perhaps 20%.

Let us know if this is a terrible idea on the Core Electronics Forums: https://forum.core-electronics.com.au/

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