Need advice for assembly line

[mrpackethead]

Baking times according to IPC standards are way way longer than you might think hence not done with a conveyor, check them out. Rather than baking stuff on the offchance before using it you could instead store the parts in climate controlled storage like one of these http://www.mekko.co.uk/dry-storage-cabinets/

Yes, I know they are long (tens of hours) but I need to be creative here since I'm on very tight budget. Of course climate controlled storage space would be ideal, but for me these are dreams at this moment.

You can rebake your parts at 70C for about 24-48hours and it will dry them out pretty well.   Get a bag of damp rip, and then put your parts ( in their static bag ) in a sealed container.    If you can get one of those humidity cards, even better. :-)      It works.     I've also used a food vacumn sealer, wiht antistatic b bags and it works pretty well.   

[pisoiu]

Well..damn. I spent last week with $ calculation because that is important too. Otherwise, on the long run, I may just end up with a very expensive toy.
My main business works well at the moment, and taking into consideration current volume of sales and income, that will justify investment in a production line, even if my requirements are around 10-15% of its capacity. But some aspects of my business makes it quite unpredictable for a period of over 1-2 years.
For that reason I must take into consideration to use assembly line for PCBA in the prototyping and low volumes market. Initially I tried to avoid that, but apparently that's not wise. I know that's a different beast with its own quirks and for that I must deal among others with the optimization of the pnp machine setup, because (from what I understand from opinion of experienced people) that is the most time consuming part and is problematic because it keeps the machine stopped.
For the physical part, I will try to keep as many standard parts on feeders but for the machine programming part (teaching locations, etc) I really cannot evaluate anything because I only have seen in pictures/movies the software used by the machine.
Has anyone been able to obtain a copy of the software used by (chinese) machine manufacturers before actual buying the machine? These software have anything like 'demo' or 'offline' mode? I asked my contact person but this question was ignored. I will insist if there is any chance of success.