Series: Engineering reality checks

Lou Farrell’s contributions to Electronic Specifier form a recurring analysis series that surfaces overlooked or underappreciated engineering problems across the electronics manufacturing landscape, with titles that signal a “here’s what nobody’s talking about” angle — the hidden costs of chip-manufacturing positioning errors, an unspoken accuracy crisis in ultra-miniaturised wearables, the understated importance of electrical safety in consumer electronics, and the engineering adaptations needed for next-gen devices, plus many more.