Mr. McBride, Following ref books might get you started with SMT manufacturing and designing: 1. "Surface Mount Technology - How to get started, A guide to understanding and implementation" by Dr. Charles L. Hutchins. 2. "Surface-Mount Technology for PC Board Design" by James K. Hollomon. I believe these books were published in late 1980's regards Matthew Park NII Norsat International Inc. >>> <[log in to unmask]> January 23, 1998 1:42 pm >>> All, We are a small engineering and manufacturing company just getting into surface mount assembly. We have been almost exclusively through hole but with the elimination of many through hole parts, we find it necessary to move on. Additionally, most of our manufacturing contracts in the past were older 'build to print' jobs based upon old designs for our military customers. Soon, both manufacturing and engineering representatives will meet to discuss manufacturing's design requirements. Because we have had so little experience with surface mount assembly, we really don't know what to ask for from a design for manufacturing standpoint. I would be interested in any design specifications or really any reading material that could point us in the right direction (i.e. pad geometry, component orientation, etc.) as well as manufacturing specifications/guidelines (i.e. stencil printing, solder reflow, etc.). We are currently reviewing IPC-S-816, D-279, and SM-782. Thank you all in advance of your support. Steve McBride Manufacturing Engineer Frontier Electronic Systems Corp. (www.FEI-CORP.com) ################################################################ TechNet E-Mail Forum 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://jefry.ipc.org/forum.htm) for additional information. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.311 ################################################################ ################################################################ TechNet E-Mail Forum 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://jefry.ipc.org/forum.htm) for additional information. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.311 ################################################################