Electronics Forum | Thu May 16 12:49:29 EDT 2002 | stefwitt
FAI appears to become fashionable in the Bay area. FAI on double side sticky tape is the first one I hear about. How does the customer test the functionality of the board, when the board is not soldered?. Components are not wasted for FAI. Wrong part
Electronics Forum | Thu May 12 06:59:50 EDT 2005 | dougs
Hi, Does anyone have any experience of setting up FMEA's for automotive customers? We have a batch to run for a customer and are looking into the FMEA's at the moment. It seems that the FMEA should be done each time a product is introduced, I th
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 14 08:40:06 EDT 2006 | russ
you as a contract manufacturer are not responsible for your customers product. If you are not selling to them under false pretense of RoHS compliance you are fine, it will be your customer that is non-compliant. So if you build a board that is non
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 22 18:08:38 EDT 2006 | MFG CAVEMAN
Dear ???, The verbage on your customer's PO or contract for business is what would be at issue in a (gulp) litigation situation. If you customer is specifying a RoHS compliant assembly in their PO or contract reference and is not allowing you to f
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 04 13:34:02 EDT 2007 | rgduval
I'd be happy to tell my customers that they need to provide more parts...the problem is, we specialize in short runs. So, if the customer pinches pennies, and only buys 50 pieces for 50 piece demand, I need to be able to deal with it. Hence, the
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 02 12:51:24 EDT 2008 | arminski
Say I have more than 10 customers all Box Build products, what is the effective and efficient component part numberings system for my company : Make Own Part Numbers? Adopt Customer Part Numbers? Own Part Number and Customer PN Mixed or Combined?
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 26 02:17:21 EDT 2011 | Jacki
Hi Minda Customer is always right and u hve to follow their standard if they dun agree with ur company quality standard. Even u follow IPC standard, u can't do nothing unless ur customers agree with it. B4 get orders, ur sale and customers must dis
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 07 18:12:50 EST 2014 | cot628
This issue is coming from a customer. The customer demands that we do not mechanically center or test passive components, because of issues they had in the past. There has been a studies that it takes about 8-10 newtons to damage chip. Most of our pa
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 28 16:46:30 EDT 2018 | applebar
thank you for the reply it was our error- there was a change notice via a spreadheet in a resistor value; the operator used the old reel/old value. Customer did not pay for AOI. Customer supplied tester passed all the boards, even with the wrong (u
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 08 20:27:34 EDT 2022 | stephendo
It depends on what you will be building and your customer`s requirements. You many need an X-ray machine. You will almost certainly want magnifier lenses with ring lights. And you will probably never have enough binocular microscopes. You will also
