Jim: First off, I'd like to thank you for your responses to my questions. The example I gave was strictly for illustrative purposes only. It was not meant to reflect an actual process condition but the joint count and the lot size were delliberately set to see if I could generate a sampling of different responses. I only received 2 responses, yours and one from Graham Collins (Thanks, Graham). The intent of the one defect was to see if the count for the lot was taken into account for the 0.3% threshold or whether the single Table 11-1 defect on one board would require that corrective action be taken because it exceeds the 0.3% threshold. Both of you used the count of the lot rather than a single board as a basis for determining the 0.3% threshold for corrective action. What gives you the indication to consider the entire lot ? Paragraph 9.1.2 seems to indicate that a single board is the basis for the threshold limits. In running a class 3 product, our vehicle for corrective action is a hand written, press hard, multi-page form that is filled out that requires a number of signatures. Is this the typical of a way to perform corrective action response ? I think that this time consuming effort probably would probably lead to a paperwork overload or "fix" the problem under the table in order to avoid the paperwork. Maybe I'm off base here but, it seems to me that touching up a solder joint or two on a board is the same as hand solder operations that are sometimes performed after wave soldering or reflow soldering. They are both normal. I agree that touch-up locations need to be identified so that trend analysis and problem correction can take place if needed. But, to generate corrective action reports for single defect occurrences is not very practical. Maybe we need a simpler corrective action form. I'd like to hear from the IPC on this one. Thanks to all who can respond. Bill Kasprzak Moog Inc. ################################################################ 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 ################################################################