Steve: The short answer is yes, I would expect a call. Without getting into a lot of detail we have certain board designs that cannot tolerate soldermask, nomenclature ink or in this case epoxy glue covering adjacent circuit traces. It defeats their functional purpose. This is not unique to our products others use this same design technique. So, yes epoxy dots have the potential to be a problem, the chances are fairly small they will wind up in these locations but in could happen. However knowing this going in I think it's partly our responsibility to notify the CEM of this condition for that particular product and to review the product during qualification testing. Once they are aware of this requirement then I would expect a call whenever this condition occurred. Regards Michael Barmuta Staff Engineer Fluke Corp. Everett WA 425-446-6076 -----Original Message----- From: Steve Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 7:22 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] OEM expectations... This is just a general question to OEM companies from a CEM point of view; would you expect a call from your supplier if it was noticed by them, that there were some component locations that are not installed, to ask if it was okay to either print solder paste, or deposit epoxy at those locations even if there was no component installed? What if they stopped production until they got a answer from you? Would that be okay? Just wondering if I'm missing something... -Steve Gregory- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e 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 or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) 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 1.8e 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 or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) 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 -----------------------------------------------------