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PCBLIVINGLIBRARY (oliBrowne)ECADConfidence: Medium

Running all 15,468 KiCad footprint names through the tool's part resolver against KiCad's own footprints gave 149 mismatches: resistor arrays and RGB LEDs became two-pad chips, a 12 mm Bourns power inductor was read as a 1210 chip, TO-220 horizontal became vertical via a regex word boundary at an underscore. The resolver runs before the datasheet reader on every BOM line, so each mismatch is a possible built-wrong part.

Impact Analysis

Persona
Electrical Engineer
Team Size Impact
5x Multiplier
Prototype Delay
3 Days
Est. Annual Cost
$30,000
  • 1 user · 1 month240 min
  • Rest of team960 min
  • Rest of year13,200 min

monthly_minutes × 12 × team_multiplier ÷ 60 × $75/hr = $30k/yr

$75/hr assumed rate.

Annual team-minutes decomposed from the reported monthly inputs.

Evidence & Sources

1 Sources

Analyst Notes

From the Grok pain-radar digest, Oct 25-26 2026 (Oct 25 daytime to Oct 26 morning slots). Verified live 2026-10-26: issue/PR read on GitHub; title and state confirmed.