I am wondering what the monitoring and control instruments really means? Most of the automation components (sensors, sensor interfaces, PLCs, DCS, etc) will fall in this category, right? Then the company I am working for now (produces sensor and sensor interface cards) will be excluded. However the manufacturing guys and the purchasing guys are=20 talking about ROHS quite often recently. Lead free solders are used in the SMT process right now. Maybe we are just preparing for the future. Regards, Xiaofan -----Original Message----- From: Ruben J=F6nsson Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 4:50 AM ... Categories 8 and 9 are (for now) exluded: 8 - Medical devices 9 - Monitoring and control instruments. Stationary industrial equipment (equipment that is part of large-scale=20 stationary industrial tools, machines and plants) and monitoring and cont= rol instruments are exluded which means that most of our products are exluded. At=20 least for a couple of years more. Regards / Ruben --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist