Has anyone been involved in SMT placement equipment capability studies?

I was wondering if anyone has procured used equipment and performed 
capability studies on the equipment and received quality and cost benefits 
from the resulting data. 

They seem quite costly. To start, the process capability kit that IPC 
sells is almost $30,000.  Is there a lot of other associated costs to 
perform the study?

The study would be applied to late 90s to early 2000 Fuji equipment.

Joel Alexander
Quality Assurance Manager
TT APSCO, INC. 

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