Yes, we do and have partially completed boards on the floor.
Gaby

"Stephen R. Gregory" wrote:

> Hey ya'll!
>
> I know everybody is experiencing some sort of negative effect from the
> current component crisis, but lately we've been experiencing a really bad
> trend.
>
> The situation is that when we find a vendor (distributors mostly) that has a
> part we need, we'll place the order and give them a P.O., and get a delivery
> date.
>
> The delivery comes and the part doesn't show-up at recieving. We'll call to
> try and find out where the part is, and get a response back like; "Oh I was
> just about to call you to let you know we've had to push the delivery out 2
> more weeks..."
>
> As you can imagine, the part usually is needed on boards that were in the
> schedule to be shipped before the end of the month and we find out about this
> on the 25th of the month...crap! It's almost like the parts are being sold
> out from under us for a higher price...'course I can't really prove that,
> it's just strange that we get one ship date when we place the P.O. and
> something else when the original ship date actually arrives.
>
> They're talking about building boards to shortages here, so that when we get
> the parts we can finish the boards quickly. I'm seeing visions of hundreds of
> partially completed boards being stored all over the floor...not a good
> vision.
>
> Are any of you experiencing the same deal?
>
> Just wondering is all...
>
> -Steve Gregory-
>
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