Bring 1 or more of your boards (scrap?) and ask the vendor to program and inspect them. You may need to bring a cad file to facilitate this. Ease of programming should be demonstrated on your product, not a demo board. -Mike -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leland Woodall Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 3:27 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] In-Line BGA X-Ray Machine Qualification Importance: High Everyone, If you were planning to visit a couple of in-line X-ray machine vendors with the purpose of selecting the best product for your process, what questions and demonstrations would you ask for? I've started with these... Cycle times Ability to detect defects in a repeatable manner Low NTF rates Ease of programming Ease of operation Years in the business Number of installations within the US Projected preventive maintenance costs Projected usage costs (power) Footprint Machine cost Lead-time requirements Delivery, setup, and training options Ability to communicate with other vision systems Please add to my list. My experience here is quite limited, and I know I'm missing a lot. Thanks in advance, Leland --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 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 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 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 -----------------------------------------------------