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this occur? at's where a lot of the solutions then happen in a company where a negative situation could become a positive for them. At least they learn a lesson through that. Shaughnessy: Patryck, I understand that you have some ideas on this. Patryk Akhurst: My viewpoint is that it's not one person owning anything. Everybody must collectively do their part for it to work, right? e person designing the footprint must design it according to a datasheet and the person producing the board must design the board according to standards, right? But you also must rely on your fab to use the right components. Like John said, everybody must be responsible for what they did. You can't be a part of that chain and then say, "Oh, at least I didn't break the chain." But a lot of times, we don't have more than two designers, and it really falls on two design- ers to do just about all the product develop- ment. We do our footprints. We do our com- ponent management. We do our designs, and data management really falls on us. Every time we get something back, we've said, "Why is something not working exactly how we want it? How can we fix it to make it better?" In doing that, we need an adaptive reuse. How can we fix something on one board and put it on all the other ones that have the same prob- lem right here? Karnazes: Patryck, I want to add onto your point. John, you mentioned getting designers to sign off on the designs, and that's a trend we've been seeing for a while. I think Patryck captured it well when he mentioned that the way that we're handling that shi now is

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