I am the Purchasing Manager for a medium size Australian R&D company
involved in design and manufacture of radar & comms products for military
and civil government use.

We use almost 100% smd on our PCA's.

I have been alerted to the MSD issue and have read as much as I can get my
hands on from the IPC/JEDEC J-STD-033 and other articles to various other
publications.

It reads as a very serious issue that could be very costly to deal with.

I am putting together a paper to present to senior management on the issue,
its consequences and how my company should  deal with it.

My problem is that whenever I speak to others in the industry I am told that
the whole issue is little more than a beat-up and I should ignore it and it
will go away.

Can anyone out there come back to me and give me the benefit of your
experiences and how you solved the issue.

Mike Hughes
Purchasing Manager
CEA Technologies Pty Ltd
Ph:02 6213 0050
Fx:02 6213 0053
www.cea.com.au

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