Wilber,
        Up until the last few years all our boards were thru-hole and were
assembled and tested in-house.  Now that we have started converting to SMT
we are running up against new limitations in our in-house testing.  We
typically do full functional testing of completed assemblies per a test
plan supplied by the design engineer.  Right now, we may get in a shipment
of boards, test them a month or two down the line, determine that some
don't work, stack up the broke ones, and eventually determine the cause was
a fault of the assembly house as much as 6 months after we received them.
This is obviously a problem.
        I am looking for generic information as to what is available in the market
and what kinds of results, costs and requirements we are going to be
looking at.

Thanks,
Don Walker
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At 10:19 AM 10/31/97 -0600, you wrote:
>  You mention about having a contract manufacturer start doing your testing
>for you, but do not say whether or not you are currently testing your
>products. If you are looking to have a contract manufacturer to do your
>testing, you need to first find out what they are set up to do and what they
>have for equipment. Sometimes, these companies already have automatic test
>equipment and it would just be a matter of investing in a fixture.
>
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