At one point in time, I had a number of people in incoming receiving working for me. We had to do all kinds of quality control on incoming components, such as castings, PCBs, etc. We had automated measuring machines, etc. It's all very expensive to set this stuff up and staff it.
We also had to use an XRF gun on parts, to make sure we weren't being shipped non-RoHS parts.
As I remember, one of the add-ins for our Agile PLM system (Agile is an Oracle product) was on the order of a few hundred thousand dollars for licensing fees and setup, not counting the months of consulting time necessary to load bills of materials, etc., into the system.
At one point in time, I had a number of people in incoming receiving working for me. We had to do all kinds of quality control on incoming components, such as castings, PCBs, etc. We had automated measuring machines, etc. It's all very expensive to set this stuff up and staff it.
We also had to use an XRF gun on parts, to make sure we weren't being shipped non-RoHS parts.
As I remember, one of the add-ins for our Agile PLM system (Agile is an Oracle product) was on the order of a few hundred thousand dollars for licensing fees and setup, not counting the months of consulting time necessary to load bills of materials, etc., into the system.