System and method for service life management based on proactive remediation of corrosion enhancing defects

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.

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.