Lisa,
        It has been (and still is) my experience that there are many quality prototype fab shops available for quick turnaround quantities.  Depending on how deep his program pockets are, multi-layer boards can be had in 24-36 hours with a premium charge.  We routinely get five day turnaround without added charges.  I think if you can get a finance person to respond, he would agree it would be more cost effective to out source the task as opposed to investing in a piece of capital which will sit idle most of the time.  

                                        George Kotecki
                                       Engineering Manager
                                         Northrop Grumman

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From:   Lisa Williams[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Thursday, May 14, 1998 9:46 AM
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Subject:        [DC] DES/FAB: New machine??

We received the following inquiry off our webpage.

Any ideas out there?

Lisa Williams
IPC Staff
Northbrook, IL
www.ipc.org

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Comments:

 The company I work for designs brand new stuff
(in the electronic field). But there's a little
problem which seems to be greater than just
a little one. When we finaly have our designed
(multiple-layered) board (in a computer file)
ready, we have to stay idle for about a month
until it is handled to us. So, what we are
looking for is the following : A device (a whole
machine maybe) attached to a PC, which can produce
our board in (lets say) a couple of days,
and which communicates with the most common
designer's sofware. If you think you can be
helpful in any way, please answer straight to the
address given. Thank you for your time.

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