Is there a common fact sheet or a "standardized" fact sheet that is generally accepted in the industry for use in quoting customer's applications? If there is not, is the IPC interested in creating such a sheet? Our quoting department struggles with the varying types of inputs customers like to provide, and with the balance between asking everything we'd like to know and what constitutes a reasonable amount of information when quoting w/o Gerber Data in hand. We have found that while indicating we can offer products built to say, IPC-600, many manufacturers of complex products have their own spec they want products built to (and we're one of them when we order things outside) which make the efficiency of communication vital. Thought this would be an interesting subject to generate a bit of discussion! Jim Herard KBL, Product Quality Engineering IBM Microelectronics Endicott t/l 857-7026 ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.311 ##############################################################