Yes, we do and have partially completed boards on the floor. Gaby "Stephen R. Gregory" wrote: > Hey ya'll! > > I know everybody is experiencing some sort of negative effect from the > current component crisis, but lately we've been experiencing a really bad > trend. > > The situation is that when we find a vendor (distributors mostly) that has a > part we need, we'll place the order and give them a P.O., and get a delivery > date. > > The delivery comes and the part doesn't show-up at recieving. We'll call to > try and find out where the part is, and get a response back like; "Oh I was > just about to call you to let you know we've had to push the delivery out 2 > more weeks..." > > As you can imagine, the part usually is needed on boards that were in the > schedule to be shipped before the end of the month and we find out about this > on the 25th of the month...crap! It's almost like the parts are being sold > out from under us for a higher price...'course I can't really prove that, > it's just strange that we get one ship date when we place the P.O. and > something else when the original ship date actually arrives. > > They're talking about building boards to shortages here, so that when we get > the parts we can finish the boards quickly. I'm seeing visions of hundreds of > partially completed boards being stored all over the floor...not a good > vision. > > Are any of you experiencing the same deal? > > Just wondering is all... > > -Steve Gregory- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d > To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in > the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet > Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives > Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional > information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------