As published in EBN Online – #HardwareIsHard. Crowd funding projects are getting a bad rap these days. Too many are failing and for an avoidable reason. The electronic hardware. If your project involves electronic hardware, read on. We have all been conditioned...
For young Designers and for mature Designers, this is a word to the wise. Talk to your board house before you start on the new design. We spend a lot of time helping Designers after the fact to bring their pride and joy to a state of manufacturability. If only we had...
as published in EBN Cost Drivers in PCB Production….or why China? by Thomas Smiley, President, Precision PCBS Most of our customers believe that the PCB is an uninteresting commodity. They imagine a long machine into which fiberglass and copper are poured and...
The PCB fabrication industry is older than most of us still working. It is overdue for modernization. We have not seen any transformational manufacturing changes in the PCB bare board boards industry during the last 15 years. What we have seen is the installed...
from EBNonline August 22, 2016 The Latest Approach to PCB Sourcing As U.S. PCB manufacturers disappeared in the 90s and early 00s, they were replaced primarily by sources in China, which now holds enormous capacity and actually performs with outstanding consistency...
