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NPI: A How To Guide for Engineers & Their Leaders
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Leading from the Front
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Screws & Glue: Getting Stuff Done
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Choosing the best CAD software for product design
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Screws vs Glues in Design, Assembly, & Repair
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Best Practices for Glue in Electronics
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A Practical Guide to Magnets
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Inspection 101: Measurements
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A Primer on Color Matching
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OK2Fly Checklists
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Developing Your Reliability Test Suite
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Guide to DOEs (Design of Experiments)
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Ten Chinese phrases for your next build
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NPI Processes & Workflows
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When I started working at Apple, I felt wholly unprepared.
When I started working at Apple, I felt wholly unprepared. Everything about my job, from the CAD software to the process for doing a tolerance analysis, to the "right way" to run an NPI build, had to be learned. There wasn't even a list of the jargon to translate what my coworkers were saying, and no one explained what EVT, DVT, and PVT actually meant -- I had to feel those out through multiple iterations of programs.
So when I started Instrumental with a mission to enable engineering and operations teams to build better products, one way I thought I could have an impact right away was by sharing the knowledge I'd had to learn on the job or pick up in the school of hard knocks. That's what this chapter is about -- an eclectic mix of articles about the nuts and bolts (but screws and glue is more apt, is it not?) of being an engineer building world-class electronics products.