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From: Larry Morse
To: D. Rooke
Subject: RE: Component attrition
Date: Tuesday, December 24, 1996 9:27AM

     Some components are lost during automated placement due to lack of 
original tape leader, feeder mis-feeds, component sensing rejects, defects 
from missing solder paste or adhesive on the PCB, as well as other reasons. 
 These components still exist undamaged, but are in a loose format and mixed 
with other components, and so it isn't economical to use them for automated 
board assembly.  If you know of a manufacturer that gets 100% yield, 100% of 
the time, without this sort of attrition on high volume assembly, I'd be 
very interested to know if they would like some more contract work.

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