I am looking for information and articles about component
availabilities.  We are having trouble finding stock for many
components, we believe, due to the rohs switch over.  Our engineer
seems to think the fabricators availability information is not
accurate.  Is anyone else having trouble with this?

What are all of you doing during engineering to ensure parts are
available when going out for prototype or production runs?

One of our added challenges is that our runs are extremely small and
part minimums can be an issue.



:-) Dee Stover  [log in to unmask]
Tech Associate II
National Optical Astronomy Observatories
www.noao.edu

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