The people I need the most are the people with fine motor skills who clean up the circuit board AFTER it comes off the machine. As far as I know, there is no machine that can do that. Shoot, sometimes I have to put my HUSBAND on the touch up line, and he’s the President! Same with the test lab. My husband disappears for hours in there tweaking stuff. The younger workers just don’t care. They will scrap an expensive circuit board, rather than make it work.
"Young" being anyone under 50....
I sure wouldn't want to work for you.
Scrap????? Dirty word! We use to have a 10% accepted scrap rate on circuit boards. The problem with that is that you always go 7-8% scrap and people were comfortable with that.....as long as they stayed below 10%. We changed it to 0% scrap rate and the actual scrap rate droped to 2-3%. Not only that, all scrap had to be documented and determined why it happened. Could be in manufacturing or the original design.
I know a guy who does touch up on surface mount for a military contractor.
Makes really good money for someone with no degree.
I wouldn't want to do it. But I'm a degreed engineer. Don't need to.
Have you tried hiring mechanics away from the local auto dealer?
They're amazingly underpaid for what they know. Most are just beat down by the system. Give them an path out and many will jump. You'll have to match their pay to start (which will likely be more then they are worth at first). Watch out for the lame ones.
We used to call that the “tube puller” mentality.