Smarter Test Plans for Inevitable Failures w/ Blue Clover CEO & Co-founder, Pete Staples
Update: 2025-10-06
Description
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).
docs.pltcloud.com+1 - Blue Clover — Design-for-Test (DFT) Guide (request the PDF).
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