Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 21 12:13:04 EDT 2008 | shrek
The industry mantra for the past decade or so has been minimizing material costs and inventory turns. Buyers in the EMS are given directives to buy as cheap as possible to meet these directives. Consequently, they cheap out on the most important pa
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 31 14:59:05 EST 2006 | samir
KRC, Let me guess. You're in the materials organanization at your company and you're judged by such metrics as "inventory accuracy" and "# of turns", and you're thinking that those sacrifial chip components are what causes your inventory accuracy to
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 21 13:37:36 EST 2014 | gregp
If there are parts "non-identifiable" then you don't know their cost. Parts under a certain cost you don't worry about. That leaves only category "A" parts to concern yourself with. Know your attrition rates especially for parts over a certain cos
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 31 18:59:55 EDT 2000 | Brian W.
Our customers use OSP, HASL, immersion tin and immersion gold as board finishes. If I recommend a finish to the customer, it is one of the immersion finishes or OSP. Those finishes have the advantage of a flat surface to deposit paste. HASL has va
Electronics Forum | Sun Aug 18 06:23:34 EDT 2002 | bentzen
Hi Ken. It's always fun and a good exercise to debat on a interesting subject like this. I can see at your response that I have to clarify some of the issues. Yes, the placement machine should be the line bottleneck. And in a line with more placem
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 25 09:19:39 EST 2015 | swiese242
We currently do have part system in place. The problem that we are having is finding the same part used on multiple jobs. We it be sufficient to keep most used and common parts on hand. Then turn kitting into fifo.
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 15 14:16:29 EST 2009 | rgduval
I'd agree. I wouldn't be able to turn significant volume in that short a time span....but, then again, I don't see a lot of people that need significant volumes in that sort of time span. And, agreed on turn-key. I've done a couple of tk jobs in t
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 30 11:03:29 EDT 2001 | davef
Nice to have you back on SMTnet. Some of the newer folk have missed-out on the solid contributions you�ve made to the Forum. The chicken wire cleaning basket was a classic!!! [It�s a shame that the folk at SMTnet can�t recover those files.] We bu
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 15 15:44:11 EDT 2002 | davef
For us, no. Pain in the butt, yes. Volume build shops do not have the inherent flexibility that quick turn shops have built into their systems to deal with these problems. I�d speculate that this issue will help LARGE contract shops to rethink the
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 14 08:05:23 EST 2000 | Pat Pepper
Hi Dave, Thank you for the response. In answer to your responses I'll use the original numbers of my questions. 1. We would like to turn around our boards fast, but sometimes due to the market conditions we wind up with inventory. After reading
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