System and method for service life management based on proactive remediation of corrosion enhancing defects
A defect inspection system includes a storage. The defect inspection system also includes a corrosion enhancing defect manager that obtains a circuit card including a trace that is to be encapsulated by a protective layer adapted to reduce corrosion of the trace; applies a voltage potential to the trace while the circuit card is disposed in a visual indicator bath; obtains an image of the trace while the voltage potential is applied; makes a determination, based on the image, that a visual indicator generated by the visual indicator bath is included in the image; and based on the determination: identifies a portion of the trace corresponding to the visual indicator; and applies encapsulant to the portion of the trace.
1. A defect inspection system, comprising:
storage; and
a corrosion enhancing defect detection manager programmed to:
obtain a circuit card comprising a trace that is to be encapsulated by a protective layer adapted to reduce corrosion of the trace;
apply a voltage potential to the trace while the circuit card is disposed in a visual indicator bath;
obtain an image of the trace while the voltage potential is applied;
make a determination, based on an analysis of the image, that a visual indicator generated by the visual indicator bath is included in the image; and
based on the determination:
identify a portion of the trace corresponding to the visual indicator; and
apply encapsulant to the portion of the trace,
wherein the corrosion enhancing defect detection manager is implemented using one selected from a group consisting of a hardware device comprising circuitry and computing code executed by the hardware device.
2. The defect inspection system of claim 1 , wherein the visual indicator bath comprises:
a liquid that generates gases when the voltage potential is applied to the liquid through the trace.
3. The defect inspection system of claim 2 , wherein the liquid comprises methanol.
4. The defect inspection system of claim 2 , wherein the visual indicator bath further comprises:
a dye that highlights the visual indicator.
5. The defect inspection system of claim 1 , wherein the visual indicator indicates a presence of a defect in the protective layer.
6. The defect inspection system of claim 5 , wherein the defect is not visible in the image.
7. The defect inspection system of claim 5 , wherein the defect is not detectible from a top view of the circuit card, wherein the top view of the circuit card is orthogonal to layers of the circuit card.
8. The defect inspection system of claim 5 , wherein the defect is a hole in the protective layer that exposes a sidewall of the trace of the circuit card.
9. The defect inspection system of claim 8 , wherein applying the encapsulant to the portion of the trace encapsulates the sidewall of the trace of the circuit card.
10. The defect inspection system of claim 1 , wherein the voltage potential is applied across the trace and a second trace of the circuit card.
11. A method for managing corrosion enhancing defects in circuit cards, comprising:
obtaining, by a corrosion enhancing defect detection manager, a circuit card of the circuit cards, wherein the circuit card comprises a trace that is to be encapsulated by a protective layer adapted to reduce corrosion of the trace;
applying a voltage potential to the trace while the circuit card is disposed in a visual indicator bath;
obtaining an image of the trace while the voltage potential is applied;
making a determination, based on an analysis of the image, that a visual indicator generated by the visual indicator bath is included in the image; and
based on the determination:
identifying a portion of the trace corresponding to the visual indicator as including a corrosion enhancing defect of the corrosion enhancing defects; and
applying encapsulant to the portion of the trace to remediate the corrosion enhancing defect,
wherein the corrosion enhancing defect detection manager is implemented using one selected from a group consisting of a hardware device comprising circuitry and computing code executed by the hardware device.
12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the visual indicator bath comprises:
a liquid that generates gases when the voltage potential is applied to the liquid through the trace.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the liquid comprises methanol.
14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the visual indicator bath further comprises:
a dye that highlights the visual indicator.
15. The method of claim 11 , wherein the visual indicator indicates a presence of the corrosion enhancing defect in the protective layer.
16. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computing code, which when executed by a hardware device comprising circuitry, enables the hardware device to perform a method for managing corrosion enhancing defects in circuit cards, the method comprising:
obtaining, by a corrosion enhancing defect detection manager, a circuit card of the circuit cards, wherein the circuit card comprises a trace that is to be encapsulated by a protective layer adapted to reduce corrosion of the trace;
applying a voltage potential to the trace while the circuit card is disposed in a visual indicator bath;
obtaining an image of the trace while the voltage potential is applied;
making a determination, based on an analysis of the image, that a visual indicator generated by the visual indicator bath is included in the image; and
based on the determination:
identifying a portion of the trace corresponding to the visual indicator as including a corrosion enhancing defect of the corrosion enhancing defects; and
applying encapsulant to the portion of the trace to remediate the corrosion enhancing defect,
wherein the corrosion enhancing defect detection manager is implemented using one selected from a group consisting of the hardware device and the computing code executed by the hardware device.
17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the visual indicator bath comprises:
a liquid that generates gases when the voltage potential is applied to the liquid through the trace.
18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the liquid comprises methanol.
19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the visual indicator bath further comprises:
a dye that highlights the visual indicator.
20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the visual indicator indicates a presence of the corrosion enhancing defect in the protective layer.