Shannon, The best place to start is with what you have now - the "As Is" as the Business Re-engineering Gurus say. You said you have your own way of designing boards already, so get this down on paper in the form of a (large if need be) Flow Chart, with boxes for each stage, each input, and each output. Big sheet of paper and scribbled boxes and arrows all over the place is fine to get it all captured. Get as many people to contribute as possible - make it show what ACTUALLY happens. Then turn the process into what you WANT to happen, and draw up a new Flow Chart that does it efficiently - you'll be surprised what you can improve once you look at it. Hope this helps you in your endeavours, Clive ffitch MBUK, England ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: [TN] Where to start? Author: "\"TechNet E-Mail Forum.\" <[log in to unmask]>, Shannon Wesley" <[log in to unmask]> at INTERNET Date: 20-07-98 20:08 My manager has assigned me the task of creating a kind of PCB design methodology. We currently all have our own way of designing boards and are looking for ways to capture this information on paper. I've gone to IPCs web page and printed out anything and everything on PCB design. Do you have any suggestion on where I can start? Shannon Wesley email: [log in to unmask] Systems Engineer phone: (619)457-2111 x228 VisiCom Laboratories, Inc. fax: (619)457-0888 ################################################################ 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's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 ################################################################ ################################################################ 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's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 ################################################################