Bill, Jack, and others,
IPC has a printed circuit supplier benchmarking program called the
PQCR2 Database.
One or more of 18 standardized test panel designs can be used to
assess a printer circuit supplier's capabilities in five fundamental
process areas which include:
1. Conductor/space formation capability and quality and finished
conductor height uniformity on both plated and non-plated layers;
2. Via registration yield;
3. Via formation capability, quality and reliability;
4. Single-ended and differential impedance uniformity from both plated
and non-plated conductor layers; and,
5. Soldermask registration yield.
You can find detailed information, including the test panel design
data, at www.pcbquality.com. Please contact me with any questions you
may have about this supplier benchmarking tool.
Best Regards,
David L. Wolf
Conductor Analysis Technologies, Inc.
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On Feb 22, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Brooks,Bill wrote:
> Hi Jack,
>
> Vendor Qualification is an essential part of any good Quality
> Program at a company. Our QA department arranges to qualify vendors
> with an onsite visit and inspection of the materials, procedures,
> travelers, and processes used at any given vendor that fabricates
> boards or does assembly for us. New Vendors do short run first
> article 'proofs' to verify that they can 'build to print'. Also
> periodic audits and inspections may be required to verify that they
> still are meeting QA standards. What sort of process are you using
> at your company?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bill Brooks
> PCB Design Engineer, C.I.D.+
> DATRON World Communications, Inc.
> "Performance you require - Value you expect"
> http://www.dtwc.com
> Tel: (760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Olson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:19 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [DC] FAB: Vendor Verification? Validation?
>
> FAB: Vendor Verification? Validation?
>
> I am having to address this question:
> "If you switch bare board manufacturers, what should you do to
> verify that the new boards are just as good or better than the old
> ones were?"
>
> I can say a lot about how to CHOOSE a bare board vendor and how to
> SPECIFY minimum levels of acceptability, but from a technical point
> of view, is there more that should be done than typical visual
> inspection, dimensional checks and cross sections of the boards
> themselves?
>
> Do any of you periodically monitor your bare board vendor by asking
> for process control reports and stuff like that?
>
> Have any of you ever been asked to re-validate a product
> (reliability testing) on products just for changing the bare board
> vendor?
>
> Maybe I have just had a fortunate career by always getting good
> boards, but lately I've been stung a few times in this brave new
> world.
>
> have a good day,
> Jack
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