Werll, I think I must have missed the original question, but what are you
trying to find out? From my experience here, if you ask a specific question
here, you will get all the help you need. If you ask some vague
philosophical question about "designers vs vendors" or something, you will
only get answers from people who aren't too busy.

Anyway, we talk to our vendors all the time, and every place I have worked
the manufacturers ARE involved, and we do understand what processes are
involved except for the weird stuff (like chemistry)

So I question your assumptions and wonder what you are talking about.

Jack

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Paul Brown [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
                Sent:   Wednesday, September 29, 1999 2:39 PM
                Subject:        PCB Manufacturers

                Well

                So far we have managed to obtain about 5 replies from PCB
manufacturers out
                of how may thousands worldwide

                Can anyone suggest a way of getting them involved ?

                Surely its about time that the people that use PCB,s( PWB,s)
started talking
                to the people that make them!

                I used to be a specialty chemical supplier to the PCB
industry in the UK and
                realized a long time ago that users of pcbs don't talk to
the manufacturers,
                they send them a design and that's it
                The problem is users don't often understand the processes
involved in
                manufacture

                Any comments

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