On Thursday 29 April 2004 09:39 am, Dave Mucha wrote:
> Anyway, they had one machine with 16 reels that pulled parts to
> another reel that was for the board. In other words, they made their
> own single reel for a board and then the board stuffing machine only
> had to deal with one source of all chips.
The one time I got to visit an actual manufacturing facility not far from
here, that was how they did it. They had one machine with a bunch of reels
on it (I think 8), which pulled different parts to put on to one reel, and
that one was used, with the required parts in proper sequence, on the
machine that did the actual P&P. That last one was pretty awesome to
watch...!