Stephen R. Gregory wrote:
>
> Hello Everybody!
>
>      The only thing I don't like about 3-day weekends, is that ya' have to
> come back to work. When ya' do, you feel like you're behind because of the
> extra day off, but I guess that's normal. Had a nice weekend, sat home and
> watched all the Daytona stuff...wanted my man DALE "The Intimidator" to win,
> but second ain't too bad I guess. I guess he didn't intimidate Jeff Gordon
> enough...that kid is awesome! I do believe he'll be one to break and set all
> the NASCAR records before he's through. What he's done so far at age 27 is
> amazing!
>
>      Anyways, let's switch from NASCAR to jumper wires..(see how I smoothly
> transitioned from one topic to another? hehehe...) Tried to do an archive
> search on this just a bit ago, but the server ain't talking to me this morning
> for some reason...(bad breath?)
>
>     What I'd like to ask though, is how do ya'll quote jumpers? I've sat down
> and tried to work things out in my head of how long it takes, but when it
> comes time for the rubber to meet the road so to speak, (notice how I
> continued with my Daytona 500 theme? Slick huh? hehehe..) I'm always off.
> Things that I think are simple and shouldn't take much work, take longer than
> I thought, or vice versa, things that I think will take some time the girls
> will do in a snap.
>
>      I really do put some thought into this, and I have timed what it takes to
> do lets say; a simple 2", point to point wire with no crazy turns or anything.
> What I use for figures are; 1) 15-seconds to cut and strip both ends of the
> wire, 2) 15-20 seconds to solder each end, 3) Another 15-30 seconds to clean
> and secure the wire down to the PCB. If there's any weird routing of the wire
> needed (like from top to bottom, or a bunch of turns the wire needs to make)
> I'll add another minute or two to each jumper to account for the added time
> needed to route and secure the wire. Does this seem reasonable to ya'll?
>
>      The reason I'm asking is that I'm quoting a rework only job (which I've
> not done much of) and I don't know if I'm close on this one. This job is for
> around 200 boards and will tie-up some of my best rework people while we do
> this job, I just wanna be sure that we're getting what we should be getting
> for this.
>
>      The board has 37-pin lifts, 52 part adds (caps and resistors), and 85
> jumper wires. The jumpers aren't anything complicated and most of them are to
> and from 50-mil stuff...there's just a lot of them.
>
>      I'm figuring that I'll be somewhere between $70 and $90...just gotta'
> look at all the little details now. Does that sound like it'll fly from your
> experiences?
>
> Thanks ya'll!
>
> -Steve "I'm up to my ears in wires" Gregory-
>
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Steve:  I'd double the amount that you estimate by "engineering
methods,"  based on 15+ years of explaining to bosses wonder why we got
beat on some "simple ECO" work.  Ya know bud, this is a high value added
activity that is going to take Edie (or whoever your star rework person
is) out of play and not cleaning-up messes that you've made in your
production work that also needs to be profitable.  TTYL  Dave F

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