Hello Technet Currently looking at silver as a surface protectant for SMT pcb's vs. gold immersion or white tin. Have any others experienced any issues negative regarding silver? Is silver a superior option when compared to other choices. Would appreciate your feeback. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Tempea, Ioan <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [TN] Capacity Planning Tools. > Monica, > > you guys at Nortel are using a lot of Fuji machines. These ones have very > powerful production reporting capabilities, you can generate practically > anything you need in time of cycle time. > > This may help with machine utilization. > > Ioan > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Monica Mihai [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 3:47 PM > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: [TN] Capacity Planning Tools. > > > > Hello Technet, > > > > I have a question for all manufacturing groups. I am looking at developing > > a capacity planning tool with the following functionality: > > > > * Evaluate capacity by process given a forecasted production plan, > > product routings, cycle times, etc.; > > * Prioritize work and assign specific product routings based on lead > > times to customers (i.e. due dates), batch sizes (volumes), etc.; > > * Calculate machine utilization; > > * Ability to do "what-if" scenarios. Some examples of such scenarios > > would be evaluating whether we have the capacity on each process/machine > > to build a new customer demand, how we can maximize resource utilization > > or how process improvements affect the overall capacity. > > > > > > Note that I am not looking for an end-to-end inventory/material planning > > system such as SAP or BAAN. I am more interested in evaluating whether our > > manufacturing processes have the capacity to run the forecasted load and > > what is the resulting utilization of our equipment. > > > > Any ideas on relatively inexpensive "off the shelf" systems that would > > accomplish these requirements? I would also be very interested in any > > suggestions of how this could be developed "in house" (what software would > > work best for this task?). > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Regards, > > Monica Mihai. > > > > ############################################################## > TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c > ############################################################## > To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in > the body: > To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> > To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET > ############################################################## > Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional > information. > If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or > 847-509-9700 ext.5365 > ############################################################## > ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5365 ##############################################################