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What is with my order

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hello i pre-order pi on 29/02/2012 11:19 and only revice "Farnell Order Acknowledgement" but i did not recive estimated delivery time that other users did can someone tell me what happened with my order because I see that Order Status is still same as it was on day of order and it's been 5 day's now

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  • in reply to alecthegeek

    This is a copy of a post I made on the Raspberry Pi forums tonight, hoping it might assist somewhat.

     

    Note, one thing I didn't mention is that many factories have a 3 month in advance (at least) schedule of what production runs are in the works. So if RS and E-14 pop along to the factories they use and say we have this we want you to make, room has to be made in the schedule - this does depend on how large the board stuffing houses they use are of course. There are also the solder mask stencils to be made and checked.

     

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    I have worked in manufacturing of electronic devices within the telecommunications industry and health devices.

     

    Depending on how parts are sourced (customer provides the parts versus board stuffing house buys to BOM) it can take up to six weeks. The PCB"s can take a week to be made and shipped to the factory assuming the cheapest board deal was selected, add on a week if customer requires part checking to specs, setting up pick and place machines takes about a day to two days or more if unlucky. Running profiling for the ovens, checking SMD screens and solder/flux are correct, adjusting screen printer all takes time, add on actual production which assuming a shift of 8 hours could result in a minimum of 100 to 300 boards per shift possibly more, add on hand soldering for connectors and visual inspection, rework (if allowed by customer), testing , packing and shipping would all add up to at least another month.

     

    So assuming no problems from woe to go a minimum of 1 month lead time and more likely 3 is about right for large production runs.

     

    Mind you I"ve been out of that side of electronics for some time now and have never worked at a Chinese factory, having only worked at places that have three Pick and Place machines running, two solder paste screeners and four ovens. "

  • in reply to alecthegeek

    Hi Alec

     

    I'm still waiting for any sort of reply from Farnell!

    My order was placed 1h 10mins after the release, if it's slipped to July I wont be a happy bunny but we are all at the mercy of the distributors now.

  • in reply to Former Member

    I ordered at 29/02/2012 07:03 am and received today a email with shipping week 32 .. August !!

    That's verry annoying !!