Hi Tracy - Regarding your basic question of changing board suppliers - go with extreme caution. I've been thru several of these things over the years which resulted in having to do considerable "retuning" of the "less expensive boards". All kinds of crazy stuff can crawl out and bite you if you're not careful: changes in solder mask chemistry; changes in solder mask color; variances in layer to layer spacing (internally); changes in OSP coating material; different solder coat/tin lead plate characteristics; thru hole sizes in tolerance, but a few thousandths different resulting in solder flow thru variations; etc. You need to be sure that you do a large enough "initial production run" with the proposed suppliers boards to verify you are free of any problems before a full committment is made. Regarding any vendors financial well being, or similar: TechNet just isn't the place for that type discussion. Regards and good luck Kelly -----Original Message----- From: Tracy Neace <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thursday, December 16, 1999 3:57 PM Subject: [TN] Circuit Boards Hello TechNetters, Our company, a high volume automotive manufacturer, is thinking about changing board suppliers, due to some possible cost savings. Does anyone have any recommendations I can pass along, before someone in accouting starts forcing us to buy someone else's nightmare and negates a little thing called quality and manufacturability. I've heard CircuitWise is having some financial problems, any truth to that? Tracy M. Neace, Manufacturing Engineer Nacom Corporation (770) 467-6737 ############################################################## TechNet Mail List 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 web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5365 ############################################################## ############################################################## TechNet Mail List 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 web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5365 ##############################################################