"Stephen R. Gregory" wrote: > Hey ya'll, > > I just got a call from one of our sales people asking how big a board we can > do in > our machines, I told her 18" X 16". She said; "Oh darn...". I asked why the > disappointment? She said; "Well, there might have been some SMT business that > we could get, but we would have to be able to handle a 24" X 24", 52-layer > board". As soon as I picked my jaw up from the floor, I told her that there > was no-way we could do something like that. > > My question is; are there pick and place machines that can do boards that big? > > -Steve Gregory- 24" X 24" Is a big board but understandable. However, the 52-layer has my jaw dropping, Can you tell us what the purpous of such a high amount of layers is?? The most I've ever seen is 12 layer, and though I far from know everthing I'm wondering why some one would NEED that many. This is obviously VERY a specialist assembly. Peter T. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------