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#411 – An Interview with Chris Denney
Due to the dual Chris nature of this episode, we’ll refer to Chris Denney as “Chris” and Chris Gammell as “Chris G”
- Chris got started in high school working at a CM that his friend’s family owned .
- After that he went to school and started selling AOI equipment as an applications engineer at YesTech
- ACI – Apple Cad
- He also worked briefly at another unnamed CM
- He was a manufacturer rep, like former guest John Davis. These roles are quasi sales but also quasi support.
- Found Worthington Assembly when trying to sell them some equipment and got to know the owners Neil and Rafal.
- Giving feedback about sales
- The sales cycle time in the assembly world is pretty long, some people spend a year figuring out what equipment to get.
- Apex tradeshow in Las Vegas
- Chris wanted to nerdify the Worthington process. It was originally founded in the 70s by a husband and wife and was briefly named “Moronics”.
- Chris describes the state of CMs in US
- Chris G has only dealt with a few CMs
- Where WAI was a few years ago
- Some shops are fast, some are slow
- Chris to visit Digikey in Thief River Falls
- How Worthington has changed over the years?
- When they started, their reflow didn’t have a conveyor
- What does the best CM look like?
- Have to be efficient at quoting to make a
- Andy Seddon, the founder of Circuit Hub was on The Amp Hour back in 2013.
- The queue of getting quotes done
- How do you figure out the cost of assembling a component
- AOI – automated optical inspection
- SMTAI show at Rosemont
- How do I get my costs down?
- Zach Dunham and Spencer Wright have both been on the show, they worked with Chris to get the Public Radio built.
- “Wicked”
- Silkscreen matters for assembly
- Glue layers
- Don’t use online footprints, Chris hates the 0402 footprint in EAGLE.
- Stay in the middle of availa, that’s the best
- 0402 are easy 0603 are best
- Chris’s email is cdenney@worthingtonassembly.com
- Follow them on Twitter: @WAssembly
- Worthington is hiring! They made an intro video with CircuitHub