If your product and business make this a viable option have the board fab house do the sorting. Otherwise the value chain looks like: fab baords -- test boards -- mark X-outs -- mix X-outs into production -- ship to assembly house -- sort to segregate X-outs. Regards, Brad -----Original Message----- From: Jack Olson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 8:49 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] Marking bad boards? We may be faced with a similar problem soon (installing an in-house line) so I would like to hear what you guys do about x-outs too. Why not just sort them out as you go, and then when you had a sufficient quantity built up to make it worthwhile, de-panelize the good ones and run them as a separate job? Just a thought (from a new guy who don't know nothin'), Jack -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Matthew Lamkin Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 4:18 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Marking bad boards? Currently we have no working method of telling our Quad 100 p&p machines that a board is bad & not to place components on it. We have tried placing white dots on the boards but its a bit hit & miss, so we just refuse to use panels with bad boards in. This I know causes problems & a slight price rise due to the manufacturers waste. ################################################################ 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 ################################################################ ################################################################ 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 ################################################################