[TriEmbed] Reasonable PCB Asembly

[Adam Haile]

You are correct... I have never done SMD assembly before. I figured that
was probably a decent price, but just had nothing to compare it to, hence
the question. Was looking for a baseline. I guess it wasn't so much that I
thought I could do better but wondered if I it was possible.
The list of local shops is much appreciated. I will definitely check them
out.

Thanks!


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Fred Ebeling <FEbeling at ecpdesigns.com>
wrote:

>   I was wondering, if you have never done this before, why do you believe
> you can do better than
> $8.00 a board.  You are correct 200 is a small run.  To build your board,
> some one has to purchase
> and stock all the components.   Load them onto a SMD placement machine.
> Apply solder paste,
> place all the components, run it thru a IR oven and then verify by hand
> that all the solder joints
> are ok.   OH and they have to have space to store all the stuff while its
> being done and after its
> done before shipping.  So I say around 10 minutes per board when you add
> up all the handling
> and setup.  So the company is going to average around $40 dollars an
> hour.  Which once you remove
> overhead, hour rate for employees, calls on the phone to fix things.
> Means they will probably
> break even or loss money.
>
> There are some shops in the Raleigh area:
>
> Anuva formally IES Lighting near Aviation and Evans
> GRT on the east side of NC State
> Catalyst by the airport
> GMI in Charlotte
> Fawn
>
> Good luck in your search.
>
> Fred Ebeling
> ECP Designs
>
>
>
>  *From:* Adam Haile <email at adamhaile.net>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 11, 2014 2:43 PM
> *To:* triembed at triembed.org
> *Subject:* [TriEmbed] Reasonable PCB Asembly
>
>  Now that I'm on the mailing list I figure I'll dive right in...
>
> Working on designing a geeky clock for resale and trying to make it all
> surface mount components in an attempt to save board size and possibly
> component cost. The board has about 40 components on it in total that are
> surface mount and 4 more that we were planning on soldering by hand because
> they are through hole (and that would've added even more cost to the
> assembly). I've been working with Advanced Assemblies out in CA because
> they work with my usual PCB fab house but they are quoting me at around $8
> per board for the assembly (in quantities of 200 board). I realize that at
> such low volume I'm probably going to run into some pretty high prices, but
> it still seems to me that I can do better. I've looked around online but
> figured I would see if any of you have direct experience with other
> companies and if you liked them, should stay away, etc. We'd love to go the
> surface mount route instead of making it a user assembled kit (hoping for a
> broader audience) but that extra $8 would mean the retail price would be
> *much* higher than we would like and think is reasonable.
>
> Any suggestions for assembly companies (and even PCB fab!) would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> ------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list
> TriEmbed at triembed.org
> http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org
> TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.triembed.org/pipermail/triembed_triembed.org/attachments/20140611/5bebde15/attachment.htm>