[Open-graphics] Price breakdown for OGD1 (and other hardware products)

[Peter TB Brett]

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

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