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To: Process Boy who wrote (78092)	11/1/1999 12:37:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

PB, I was envisioning it for the company who wishes to expand a fab with no shutdown, step by step keeping diversity until the replacement machine is working until the old one ispulled. cassette based operation frees people from the end to end assembly line. I saw this concept in operation at the Mitsumi factory in Japan for making tuners. They bought phenolic board and plated on the copper traces instead of etch off. Each stage had several machines in parallel doing one thing and a few techs doing small adjusts on the machines as they ran. Autoload T&R SM parts, each machine could be programmed to do all functions. The punch presses that made the tin tuner cases from sheet metal had a carousel with about 20 die sets for assorted tuners. The people who toured me told me this factory was capable to satisfy world tuner demand if run 24-7(I had no way of confirming this) Bill