Circuits Assembly online magazine picked up an article we wrote to help customers avoid the dangers of estimating PCB cost during the design cycle. If PCB pricing has been a mystery to you, maybe this will help. For help with costing PCBs see Circuit Assembly Hot...
Electronics Offshoring Issues Forum We talk often about the issues and opportunities related to placing your electronics projects in the hands of an offshore company for manufacture. We would like to hear, and others would like to hear, what you think, what you have...
What Is PCB Manufacturing…Really Thomas Smiley, Precisionpcbs First. We have to make a distinction between an unpopulated bare green printed circuit board and an assembled (populated), functional, printed circuit board. Populated boards in the industry are referred to...
As an electronics power house for the past 15 years, China has come under attack recently from other Asia based countries looking to unseat them. China’s vulnerability comes from internal sources. Wage inflation and counterfeit fears. I discussed this two weeks...
I spent last week in Shenzhen. Traffic is still terrible. We operate with one preferred, one approved back up, and an approved specialist factory. We visit all as necessary or at minimum, annually. This means we get an update on a fairly good cross section of mood,...
