Some Pilot Production And testing points when building electronic Projects.  These are also important while prototyping and Bread-boarding. These are things that i used to keep telling youngsters when they are new in manufacturing. This was when i was running my own firm making industrial equipment and instruments.  \[teaserbreak\]I used to even give this and some other pages around in printed format, it was composed with word on windows 3.11. Then i realized it has to instructed at every incident by example. Reading does not help unless someone is passionate and enthusiastic about learning.\ \ [Tutorials on Basics and Instrumentation](https://www.delabs-circuits.com/cirdir/theory/theory5.html)\ \ **Components** - Use 1% MFR 100 ppm resistors for all analog instrumentation. - Use plastic or-and multilayer capacitors as ceramics are leaky. - Product should have minimum number of fasteners. **Assembly** 1. Nuts, Bolts and screws locked with adhesive so that they do not slip and the product falls apart. 2. Potentiometers should move smoothly and not get twisted, strained or locked due to cabinets. 3. Use Strain relief for wires and strip the wire and solder properly where required. 4. Strip with a stripper do not use your teeth., Twist all the strands Tin the tip of the wire. 5. After Tweaking and setting presets or trimpot lock it with paint or varnish. 6. Big Components should have large pads and separate mechanical fixing to PCB. 7. Acrylic and plastic can get blurred or deformed with some solvents. **Testing** \ Do assembly of the card with a tested assembled 3D reference. Even after all the care if the card does not work, then after full assembly do visual inspection in this order First keep both the cards one reference and the other manufactured under a bright light. - Compare resistor color patterns one by one. - Compare Electrolytic capacitors physical appearance and POLARITY. - Verify values of plastic and ceramic capacitors. - Cross-check Diode sizes and POLARITY. Verify Zener values. - Check IC and Regulator POLARITY and Exact type number / brand - Check Transistor, MOSFET, LED, POLARITY. and verify display type No. and Polarity . - Check for connector patterns and polarity and switches etc. - Reverse the card and Check for solder bridges between close pins . - Reverse card and Check for hairline shorts and solder streaks due to bad PCB processing or Soldering. - Reverse card and check for hairline cuts or pads lifted off card. - Closely observe for dry solders on big electrical parts (L and TX) a dry solder will cover the pin and will be dull in shine. - before calibration allow for product to warm up for 15 mts. If all the components were subject to incoming inspection and testing. If still unit does not work remove power and do cold check comparison with reference unit in DMM 200K R range, if still problem persists continue with power on testing and solve by DMM or scope tests. \ \ Danger ! when DMM is in Ohms Mode, Even if one probe touches 230 V, DMM is Gone, so take extra care while doing this. test probe.\ \ delabs Technologies\ \ First written and printed offline in the Nineties. Word on Windows 3,11 with Epson 24 Pin Dot Matrix Printer., updated 2014.\ \ [Electronic Tables and Charts](https://www.delabs-circuits.com/cirdir/electric/electric3.html)\ \ **How to Test Verify the Testing Methods Itself**\ \ Testing and Evaluation tools must have dynamic decoys added into the device under test DUT or the batch under test. In a Conveyor system, identifiable (RFID) decoys must be artificially introduced every 100 pieces. This will constantly counter check the Testing system and in not a One time operation. The decoys should be defective or have a fault, a little above threshold. This is caught by the testing system. Even when the testing system ages or goes out of calibration, this method can raise a alarm. \ \ Even in software and text/data processing; this method ensures database quality and software program integrity.