At 11:48 PM 5/10/2006 +1200, you wrote:
> >> 17 year old boys *can* make superb assemblers. The next generation
> >> of
> >> Techno-Gurus, Nobel laureates and the like have to come from
> >> somewhere. it's
> >> just finding the right needle in the haystack ... :-)
>
> > If you'd expect 100% error free output from that person he could be
> > the
> > first *robot* to win the prize ...
>
>Edward "zero defects" Deming would have had a comment to make about
>that comment :-).

It's not hard to get zero defects in a few hundred relatively simple
boards. Good work habits (keeping things well organized, arranging for no
interruptions) are an important part of it. It's harder to motivate an
employee to do that well, and it's hard to find a person who has a
quest for perfection yet is not really slow doing the work. Many young guys
don't seem to have the motor skills developed to do really well, at least
in my experience. Needlepoint is a better prerequisite than, say, full
contact hockey. IME, It's also easier to teach people who have zero
experience to solder well and fast than to get someone to unlearn bad habits.
It's better if they know a bit about electronics, but there are not really
that many things to learn (care with ESD issues, which parts orientation
matters on, and the soldering itself).

>Best regards,

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