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    Cost of Purchasing

    My management is looking to determine if we have the appropriate number of staff in our Purchasing department or if we have too many. Does anyone have a method/plan/ whatever to determine how much it costs to issue a Purchase Order and cost for other tasks performed by purchasing?
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    medical mfg standards

    We manufacture medical electronics equipment, for our Final assembly lines we build to released assembly drawings. These are assembly operations where we assemble devices using torque drivers presses and manual assembly operations. Working to released documentation is sufficient. For our PWA...
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    Hand Component Placement on PWA's

    Any ideas on how to ensure that components are placed in the right locations on the PWA during hand add-on and soldering operations? I am looking for somthing the add-on operator can use themselves to verify their own work. We are using both through hole and SMT components.
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    Removing Labels from Remanufactured Medical Devices

    To BillPSU Thank you for the reply. My interest is in removeing old labels from the device itself not from the packaging. They are often damaged and need replacing. We do not place new labels over old ones and yes the FDA does frown on that, but they have no problem removing the old and...
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    Removing Labels from Remanufactured Medical Devices

    Can anyone suggest an effective safe method of removing old labels from the plastic cases of medical electronic devices being remanufactured for reuse. We currently use E-xacto knifes but operators have cut themselves. Chemical label removers need to soak through the label but the labels are...

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