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

06/10/2025 1h 20min
Smarter Test Plans for Inevitable Failures w/ Blue Clover CEO & Co-founder, Pete Staples

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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 PLTWhat assemblers really need when a board failsProduction test vs. validationUpdates on the Stick It Up Your Tube movementBen the BeaverLinks & resourcesBlue Clover Devices — Production Line Tool (PLT). Blue Clover DevicesPLT Reference Docs (test plans, reports, hardware reference). docs.pltcloud.com+1Blue Clover — Design-for-Test (DFT) Guide (request the PDF). Blue Clover Devicespickplacepodcast.com