Incoming inspection should not be an option. IPC provides all the quality and reliability criteria for your properly evaluated and qualified supplier to perform its inspections. Your supplier should provide you, first, evidence that it is managing processes effectively. At a minimum, your supplier should provide statistical quality evidence product meets your clearly stated and defined contract requirements. If your board shop does as required, you need not inspect.... I wrote an article, a couple of years ago, specifically describing how to evaluate and qualify a board supplier. It starts and ends in the laboratory. Information available on request. MoonMan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------