Author Archives: WorkingBear


Dec10
What is the Electronic Components Spot Market (Buy and Sell)?

The spot market for electronic components is similar to a flea market or second-hand marketplace. The difference is that a flea market mainly sells used items, while the spot market for electronic parts—like MCUs, ICs, MLCCs, capacitors, resistors, indoctors, MOSFETs, … Continue reading

Dec03
PCB Edge Removal and De-paneling Methods: A Complete Overview

When making printed circuit boards (PCBs), individual boards are first combined into a big panel board. After components mounting or soldering, they are separated into individual boards using de-paneling tools. This article summarizes the three most common PCB de-paneling methods … Continue reading

Nov26
Youtube: 5 Key Mindsets Before You Start Writing an 8D Report

Do you ever find yourself being less than honest when writing an 8D report to a customer? Or maybe in your company, the 8D report is more like a “one-man show”? What should we really pay attention to when writing … Continue reading

Nov20
Lessons from My First Days on the Electronics Assembly Line: How I Earned Respect as a Rookie Engineer

Thinking back to my first day working at an electronics assembly factory, I was hired as a Product Engineer. This role is actually quite similar to that of a Process Engineer, but at that time, Workingbear only had experience in … Continue reading

Nov13
PCB Edge Removal and De-paneling: Stamp Hole Design

In most PCB (Printed Circuit Board) designs, panels are usually connected using V-cuts or tabs/ribs, and then separated with a V-cut scoring machine or a router de-panel machine. However, besides these two common connection methods, there’s another approach called the … Continue reading