Is there any particular reason for using so many different fluxes types?


**Yes.  We have 11 manufacturing sites.  Some are acquired companies, some
are divisions that like to manufacture "their own way".  So, historically,
we have always had a wide range of fluxes in our inventory.  Our current
philosophy is to give our sites some manufacturing choices, and allow the
IEs to determine what flux or paste works best for their hardware.  We are
slowly weeding the RMAs and the OAs out of the system.  We have found that
giving our sites choices between equally valid materials works better than
ramming a single set of materials down everyone's throat.

Doug Pauls

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