Happy Friday Technetters ! In our SMT production we have some inventory of most of our parts. The operators have a versatile job: they need to lookup the parts, mount them on the trolleys of our Assembleon machines, and run the production itself. I'm glad that my management has now finally decided to implement a feedershop separated from actual SMT-production, so that SMT operators can spend their time working on efficiency of the line, with others taking care of feeder-setup, counting parts and reacting on unexpected shortages (although the latter will hopefully become a thing of the past in the new system). I'm looking for some do's and don'ts, tips and pitfalls that we should be aware of when introducing such a separate feedershop. All comments are welcome. Best regards, Daan Terstegge Thales Communications Unclassified mail Personal Website: http://www.smtinfo.net --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a 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/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 -----------------------------------------------------