I have been asked to come up with a costing model so that we can quickly estimate the cost of assembling a PW board. Since we are an OEM, it's not something I've had to do for my customers and I don't know quite how to approach it. I can get the material cost, labor hours estimate, and I have the direct departmental expenses. I know how many assemblies I built the last couple of years and how many SMT and through-hole parts I've placed. How do I take all this information and come up with a way to estimate the cost of assembling a board? How is it done by a contract manufacturer? Thanks for any help you can give. Larry Grazian Process Engineering ################################################################ 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 ################################################################