On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 07:11:41PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote: > In real life ECO means something a bit different -- they are > documents that help stop things like purchasing substituting parts > with lower voltages.. I would write and sign an ECO for any part > change - sometime purchasing would not be able to get a particular > part so before they could buy a substitute it would have to be > approved by Engineering with a signed ECO.
Ah... *that's* an ECO:D I know it, even too well... and even higher voltages than specced give issues: fuses have different I²s and ceramic caps are strongly voltage dependent (in this case usually it's better:P).... We simply say "sign me for this component" here:P > I'm supposing that the ECO layers in kicad would be to put text > strings describing the changes? I've always wondered what the > original intent was? No idea, the manual just says these are for commente. > and this (which is really narrow and seems to not realize that ECOs > are used in many engineering fields outside of electronics ) : I suppose everything with a BOM or a manufacturing sequence needs something like that... -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
