Interesting topic Greg. Our division in Florida is doing a "boatload" of rework for a LARGE cellphone company. Their CM that originally built these *&%$ up the BGA and incidentally they are from the Asian area. My answer to the OEM is go ahead and go overseas we'll be happy to pick up your rework!!! Rick -----Original Message----- From: Greg Jones [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:10 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] US Competitivness--No Tech Content I am working on an article/editorial for the Sept issue of an electronics assembly publication. The topic is the need to improve domestic (North American) process efficiency and quality to retain a viable domestic electronics assembly industry. I would appreciate any comments, offline, on or off the record, on the issue in general and specifically on what needs to be done to achieve this. Thanks, Greg Jones Ph.D. Special Projects Manager 775.322.0158 KIC--Innovation That Works www.kicthermal.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 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 the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------