I am the Purchasing Manager for a medium size Australian R&D company involved in design and manufacture of radar & comms products for military and civil government use. We use almost 100% smd on our PCA's. I have been alerted to the MSD issue and have read as much as I can get my hands on from the IPC/JEDEC J-STD-033 and other articles to various other publications. It reads as a very serious issue that could be very costly to deal with. I am putting together a paper to present to senior management on the issue, its consequences and how my company should deal with it. My problem is that whenever I speak to others in the industry I am told that the whole issue is little more than a beat-up and I should ignore it and it will go away. Can anyone out there come back to me and give me the benefit of your experiences and how you solved the issue. Mike Hughes Purchasing Manager CEA Technologies Pty Ltd Ph:02 6213 0050 Fx:02 6213 0053 www.cea.com.au --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------