Greets,

I have recently joined a telecommunications outfit that outsources all
of it's manufacturing, something a little new to me.  Instead of
building low-rate defense hardware, I'm pushing high-rate assembly
shops.  I am wondering how soon a shop can begin programming pic&place
machines.  I know that the stencils can be ordered with the Gerber data,
but can the pwb/cca CAD data be used for placement machine set-up prior
to receipt of (any) hardware?  I never cease to be amazed at what these
new machines can do.

Thanks for input.

Ralph Vaughan
Arris-Interactive
Atlanta

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