Bill,

As a user of Quad, only one machine, I am most interested in your comments.
I am aware of what is going on to some degree. The way I understand it
another company accused Quad of copying technology, I am sure as a user you
have received the letters from the legal system. They are in the process of
being bought by another company which is logistically supposed to make
'things' go away. I am not sure this is a real problem.

However, your comment about placement accuracy is peaking my interest. I
would be interested in knowing what machines you have and their age. We only
have one IIc on the floor and we seem to have some issues sometimes with the
placement accuracy as well as fiducial location. Like you I am not the
person most intimate with the day to day operation, but when problems
continue or get worse, guess who gets called!?

If you feel it appropriate, we can move any remaining email on this off the
TN

Richard Hamilton
Clemar Mfg. / Rain Bird
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mengers, William D. [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 6:09 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      [TN]
>
> Hi out there,
>
> Can anyone tell me what is going on with Quad Systems and give me an
> opinion
> about whether or not to invest in more Quad equipment at this point in
> time?
> We have three machines and quit a bit of fixturing so we are thinking that
> because of this large investment (by our standards) it would be difficult
> to
> go to another manufacturer's equipment.  But, if Quad is going down the
> tubes we will end up doing that anyway after having bought more equipment.
> We have a lot of trouble with placement accuracy and are not sure if this
> is
> the machines (is there something more dependable?) or something else we
> are
> doing wrong.  I am not the engineer directly involved in the, but I do
> know
> a little bit about the process.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thank you.
>
> Bill Mengers
> SMT Process Engineer
> Northrop Grumman Corp.
> Baltimore, Md.
>
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