Is there a big market in the electronics industry for a company just to do final packaging of electronic assembly? I have the feel that a lot of big companies manufacture boards pretty well, but test and letting defects escape out to their customers seem to be a problem. Do you guys think that companies would go for contracting out the manual final assembly to a shop that would just do the assembly for them? Is this a big problem in industry? Jason Smith Process Materials Engineer Lexmark Electronics ################################################################ 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 ################################################################