On 7 Aug 98, Matthew Park wrote: > It is no good to do design reviews after designers finished > product layouts. It is seldom that design changes > recommended by a manufacturing engineer get implimented. > Many manufacturing defects get fixed or patched up on the floor. > This is especially true for sub-contract assembly houses. > > It is very effective to do on-going design reivews when designers > start to layout boards and when component package selections > are made. > > Sorry being too hard on designers, this is just my sound > opinion. Matthew - I don't think you're being hard on designers. I agree with you. I, for one, would appreciate some input from ME's before I start laying things out. why would I want to do something twice when I could do it right (better) the first time? We are currently trying to comply with UL, CE and some other alphabet soup agencies as they apply to spacing issues. I keep screaming "Give us the information ahead of time instead of me routing a board one way and have you tell me to rip up all of the traces and do it again differently!". Unfortunately my cries often fall on deaf ears. But I keep on yelling it anyway. Eventually they will hear my pleas and decide that might be a good thing after all. Jo Thought for the day: Intuition (n): an uncanny sixth sense which tells people that they are right, whether they are or not. JoAnn L. Amerson Design Librarian Red Lion Controls, Inc. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Voice: (717) 767-6961 ext 6308 ################################################################ 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 ################################################################