Talk to your VENDOR!!
If you make them part of the team they will perform.
Also they can tell you what they can do (capability wise).
I have found that when changing or adding technologies the best experts
are the folks I am expecting to do the work.

Now for the soapbox (my apologies to those who don't have the time to
read this).
We seem to try and live in our own worlds (for design questions we ask
designers, etc.) all to often it is the outsiders who should be helping
us to improve our designs. Talk to your Vendors (Fabricators,
Assemblers, Test Labs, etc.) make them part of your team. In the long
run you will improve your design , your knowledge, and your standings
with the big bosses. Enough said!
See you all next time.

FNK


Frank N Kimmey
EM Designer
C&K Systems, Inc
(916) 353-5366
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> ----------
> From:         BKDoughty1[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     DesignerCouncil E-Mail Forum.;BKDoughty1
> Sent:         Monday, March 30, 1998 7:25 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      [DC] Flex Knowledge needed
>
> Good Morning Designers & Tech Heads,
>      I'm in need of some information, and I thought I could ask here.
> I've
> designed one flex circuit and now they (The powers that be) want to
> put more
> components on it [Story of my life, I'm sure other designers would
> agree with
> me].
>      Anyway, If there are any fabricators or anyone in the know out
> there that
> can help me I would appreciate it. I need to thin out my traces to get
> yet
> another component on my layout but I already have a bottleneck
> happrening. Can
> anyone give me some pointers or tell me how thin traces can go on a
> flex
> circuit without driving the price up at the board house...I need
> input. My
> bosses want to know how long this change will take start to finish. I
> can't
> even tell them how long it will take me to figure out how lonng it
> will take
> me.......PLEASE HELP
>
>                 I Thank anyone in advance for their help and offer
> them my
> first born  :)
>
>                                 Thanks,
>
>                      Brian K. Doughty
>                      Numonics Corporation
>
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