I am trying to get opinions about a situation that we are discussing with a vendor/customer. While not a technical issue it has caused some confusion and I need some opinions to help settle the debate.
We are a service bureau who receives stencil files from OEM's, CEM's and PCB shops for jobs we produce. All but one of these companies that send us files name them according to the part number we are ordering. Example; if we are ordering a stencil for PN 123456 rev A the stencil files come in 123456 rev a.zip or, 123456.pst or 123456p1.gbr or something similar.
One company continues to send in every stencil file named p.1 or p.2 no matter what the part number is. Because we process multiple part numbers on one PO it is possible to get stencil files in named p.1 and p.2 for 2-3 jobs on one PO.
Despite numerous requests to name the files using the part number the company insists that this in not a problem as they keep the files in different directories on their hard drive which keeps them from getting confused and that we should stop insisting on the files being named by part number as this is the way they have done it for 10 years and no one has complained.
When I send files to my stencil vendor would it not be confusing if every time I used the same name, p.1 or p.2??? Sure I end up re-naming them but I still feel that the possibility of overwriting files by mistake increases whan every file is named the same every time. Maybe I am being a bit anal about it but it makes sense to me to use unique part numbers for files transmitted to production facilities. Any opinion would be appreciated.
mk
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