Just read an article in "The Board Authority" regarding Automatic
Optical Test (AOT).

Just wondering what you assemblers or purchasers of bare boards thoughts
are on fabricators performing 'optical testing' (visual, AOI)  instead
of 'contact testing' (BON, probe)????

An example: You state all boards to be electrically tested for
opens/shorts, and instead of throwing the boards on our flying probe or
bed-of-nails equipment I decide to put this on my AOI after setting it
up to flag for opens/shorts, would you be satsified with this method?

Franklin D Asbell
Network Circuits, Inc.
Irving, Texas 75061

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