R&D should bring some interesting comments from "creative" folks. Certainly can't hinder those only concerned with one time results. You've a world of experience over the past years, as you say. The 94 ISO version wasn't as specific as the 2000 "update." 7.3 says it all for me in that it simply requires, through the shall statements, something shall be done from concept to customer acceptance, or not. It does not address R&D as such - leaving you some lattitude. Your company's business plan certainly addresses R&D as part of its G&A section in the proforma arena. In this section, you should be able to correlate research development, its time line, its costs, and when the Phd types will be able to release a "working" model to engineering for additional development and NPI. The only thing ISO requires is you say what you do and do what you say. In the R&D area, what do you really need to say? It's up to you though you must provide product at some point. 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 e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------