Electronics manufacturers are faced with the difficult task of proving that a candidate
manufacturing process can produce acceptable hardware, either to the customer of the
product, or for internal quality control. In the past, assembly level specifications (e.g.
MIL-STD-2000A) told you exactly how to go about this demonstration. It wasn’t always
precisely correct, but you didn’t have to figure our all of the fine points of the
qualification on your own. In our modem era, “how-to” specifications are now evil things
and taboo to all involved with them. The users now have to determine many of the
process qualification-steps on their own, and sadly, many don’t have the faintest idea
where to start. That is the purpose of this document. It makes no assumptions about
what you know and leads you through the somewhat complex task of qualifying a
candidate process to the B revision of J-STD-001.