Steve Guess you answered your own question there. In my last position we had TWO X-ray m/c's (nearly #200k each). As you've stated, we used them to set up a process, after that......guys in white coats from the labs were the only customers, they would sample two units from a batch (between 5 and 5000 units, dont ask me why). I decided anybody who leaves #400k lying around doing nothing might not be the best long term career choice :-) I mean...two..shheeesh I'm sure you'll have process set up good enough to save the GM's much needed dollars for important things, like salary raises. Regards Ian Squires Senior Production Engineer ------------------------------------------------------- Graseby Dynamics Ltd A Smiths Industries Company Park Avenue, Bushey, Watford, Herts, WD2 2BW Web Site: www.gradyn.co.uk Phone: 01923-228566 xt 295 Fax: 01923-221361 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Registered in England no. 480992 Registered office: 765 Finchley Road, London, NW11 8DS ------------------------------------------------------- ################################################################ 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 ################################################################