Hi Matt! I noticed by your area code you're in the Bay Area, a really good person to talk to is a person named Dennis Johnson, he runs a company called "Onanon" over in Milpitas...they got started by doing nothing but routing, scoring, and drilling. The contact info is: Onanon Inc. 373 Sinclair Rd. Milpitas, CA. 95035 Phone (408) 262-8990 Fax (408) 262-2901 www.onanon.com They're just off of 880 over by Solectron. Dennis is very knowledgable in this area, and if I remember right, 3COM asked him to do a study for them on how close they could place a capacitor to a score line on a PCMCIA board and not worry about fracturing a solder joint... -Steve Gregory- > Hello, > > I searched through the archives, but couldn't find much in the way of > specifics (although a few good summaries of positives and negatives of the > processes). We're looking to use score and break depanelization on a new > product, and I was interested in finding out what design rules people are > using. > > Our CEM tells us .040" from board edge to component body and .020" to traces > or pads when we use a "pizza cutter" type depanelization machine as this > process doesn't cause too much stress on the board. Is this consistent with > what others have used, and have the results been successful? Is this "pizza > cutter" a standard tool that assembly shops have? > > What rules are used when just hand breaking the boards with a v-groove. How > about with a breakaway tab ("mouse bite")? > > My main concern is not inducing any excess stress on the board or cracking > any components/joints. > > Thanks for the assistance! > Matt > > ~~~~~ > Matt Sanders - Trimble Navigation, Component Technologies > [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > Phone: 408.481.7965 > Fax: 408.481.2202 > Pager: 408.619.3899 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------