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Bev Christian <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:03:32 -0400
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Steve,
Maybe you need to point out to them that a lot of the MIl Specs that they
have on their shelves are defunct.  That might make them sit up and take
notice!

regards,
Bev Christian
Nortel Networks

PS Its a nice 73-75 F here in southeastern Ontario.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen R. Gregory [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 2:26 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      [TN] Culture Changing...any ideas?
>
> Hey ya'll!
>
> Well, it's cooled down to a balmy 90-degrees here, and boy are my sweat
> glands happy!...hehehe
>
> But email ain't to talk about my how much I perspire, but about changing
> cultures. One of my "opportunities" as presented to me here is figuring
> out
> how to reduce costs (aren't we all trying to do that?).
>
> One of the things that I've noticed since I've been here, is that there is
> that everything is looked at through MIL-SPEC shaded glasses...and I've
> found
> that boards we were building under IPC 610 class-II standards were being
> touched-up un-neccessarily. Things that are maybe only a process
> indicator,
> but acceptable, are being reworked. For one example, dull solder joints
> that
> were caused because an active OA flux was left on longer than it should
> have
> been before cleaning has made the joints look dull. QA won't accept the
> board
> until all the solder joints are sparkling. I'll fix the problem about the
> operators leaving the flux on too long before washing the board, but you
> still don't need to touch every joint up! But I sure couldn't convince QA
> of
> that...and so on it goes.
>
> Part of the history here is that they've always done MIL-SPEC work here,
> and
> a lot of that work isn't as plentiful as it once was. One reason I fully
> believe is because of the costs associated with building product to that
> level of quality. At my last company we built product that was going on
> the
> space shuttle, but yet it only needed to meet 610 Class-II standards. It
> wasn't any guidance stuff or anything like that, but even NASA is relaxing
> things a bit.
>
> Class-II product is something new here, and I think I'm gonna have my
> hands
> full trying to get people out of that MIL-SPEC culture...it'll be hard to
> make any money doing things that way with the difference in the margins
> between MIL-SPEC and commercial class-II product..
>
> Any suggestions anybody?
>
> Thanks ya'll!
>
> -Steve Gregory-
>
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