Thanks Earl for your extensive report on NPI which will keep me tied up for a while in reading through it. I appreciate you for sharing your experience and information in this forum. I have another question for the day: Does anyone know of a good and reliable machine for press-in PEM PCB fasteners? I am considering machines from PENN ENGINEERING and SCHMIDT but like to get more inputs on both the press machine and the process. Would a manual press be able to put out ~2200 lbs at the fastener in practice? What are some common application problems that one should look out for? Rgds, Peter _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------