To All, Maybe somebody can help me out here. I am a Manufacturing Engineer in a shop where we build military radar test sets. These test sets are about the size of a refrigerator or sometimes twice as wide and a little taller. We do quite a bit of cable building too to run between test sets and the radars being tested. We also build these 10" x 20" x 15" boxes that are full of wire runs and PC boards. These attach to the fronts of the test sets depending what radar system is being tested. All of this is hand built product, with some small bits and pieces using automatic equipment, i.e. crimpers, solder fountain for some thru-hole components on the boards, cable stripping, etc. We build maybe two or three of something before the design changes and then we build something new. I am being asked to come up with ideas about where new technology is driving us for future equipment and manufacturing needs. Do any of you guys (or girls) do anything similar to this? Do you have better ways of doing it? Thanks for any help you can give. Bill Mengers --------------------------------------------------- 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 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------