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Hello Technet

Currently looking at silver as a surface protectant for SMT pcb's vs. gold
immersion or white tin.
Have any others experienced any issues negative regarding silver?
Is silver a superior option when compared to other choices.
Would appreciate your feeback.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: Tempea, Ioan <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: [TN] Capacity Planning Tools.


> Monica,
>
> you guys at Nortel are using a lot of Fuji machines. These ones have very
> powerful production reporting capabilities, you can generate practically
> anything you need in time of cycle time.
>
> This may help with machine utilization.
>
> Ioan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Monica Mihai [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 3:47 PM
> > To:   [log in to unmask]
> > Subject:      [TN] Capacity Planning Tools.
> >
> > Hello Technet,
> >
> > I have a question for all manufacturing groups. I am looking at
developing
> > a capacity planning tool with the following functionality:
> >
> > *     Evaluate capacity by process given a forecasted production plan,
> > product routings, cycle times, etc.;
> > *     Prioritize work and assign specific product routings based on lead
> > times to customers (i.e. due dates), batch sizes (volumes), etc.;
> > *     Calculate machine utilization;
> > *     Ability to do "what-if" scenarios. Some examples of such scenarios
> > would be evaluating whether we have the capacity on each process/machine
> > to build a new customer demand, how we can maximize resource utilization
> > or how process improvements affect the overall capacity.
> >
> >
> > Note that I am not looking for an end-to-end inventory/material planning
> > system such as SAP or BAAN. I am more interested in evaluating whether
our
> > manufacturing processes have the capacity to run the forecasted load and
> > what is the resulting utilization of our equipment.
> >
> > Any ideas on relatively inexpensive "off the shelf" systems that would
> > accomplish these requirements? I would also be very interested in any
> > suggestions of how this could be developed "in house" (what software
would
> > work best for this task?).
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Monica Mihai.
> >
>
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