RE: test or ping

[Darren Logan]

If there are lots of unwanted SMT components out there - maybe you auction them off ?

 

Would you care to list the components or is that too long a job ?

 

Maybe our kitting company would be interested in your components - perhaps you should target component kitting companies ?

Kind regards,
Darren Logan BSc(Hons)
Development Engineer
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Sent: 21 October 2002 16:49
To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L
Subject: Re: test or ping

Bob,
Sorry to hear about your situation.
We have the same outlook where I work. Our engineering force has shrunk to a Field/Design Engineer, two Mechanical Engineers and myself as PCB Jockey/Design Engineer. We are not doing any software design unless is a bug patch. We are mostly surviving on military contracts and a few academic research grants. I blame our situation to the economy to some degree, but mostly to stupid management and unreasonable forecasts.
1. In gearing up for large production that never happened, we spent over $300K in fancy custom-made aluminum shop furniture.
2. Somebody decided to outsource everything and fired most of our skilled technicians.
3. Contract houses suggested redesigning all our PCBs with high surface-mount content for volume production.
A year went by and the only two units we ever made were the ones we sent to KEMA for certification. Now we are sitting on piles of surface-mount components we can't use, because we are back stuffing our own boards.
The $180K/year marketing guru that forecasted the numbers left with a nice parachute, no questions asked.
Worse that making a crappy product is making a good product that no one buys.

My two cents.
Tony