On Tuesday 24 October 2006 21:08, Timothy Miller wrote: > We would prefer not to > have to always track individual boards (they'd have serial numbers, > and we'd use that for warranty stuff, but if we sell a lot of 100, we > stick 100 into a box, ship it, and let the other guy sort out the > remaining details). >
It would be a good idea to arrange to track individual ID numbers through the factory at least, if only for ISO 9001 compliance. Even on low-end consumer grade electronics hardware (e.g. fluorescent light drivers to go in beer taps) there's typically a three stage signing-off process (Assemble, Inspect, Test) for each unit, and a record is kept of every board that goes out and where it gets sent. I strongly suspect that even if you don't do it yourselves, once production starts rolling the assembly plant will do it anyway to cover their own asses. A big advantage of keeping full ID records through the factory and out to the vendor is usually that the number of units "lost" tends to be heavily diminished. Just my £0.02 worth. Peter -- Fisher Society committee http://tinyurl.com/o39w2 CUSBC novices, match and league secretary http://tinyurl.com/mwrc9 CU Spaceflight http://tinyurl.com/ognu2 v3sw6YChw7$ln3pr6$ck3ma8u7+Lw3+2m0l7Ci6e4+8t4Gb8en6g6Pa2Xs5Mr4p4 hackerkey.com peter-b.co.uk
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