Aug 30, 2018
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...
Jun 8, 2017
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...
Apr 11, 2017
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...
Jul 7, 2016
PCB quality can be a difficult subject. What is good, what is not. You don’t really want to overrule your quality inspector, but you should have a voice in the decisions. EBN was kind enough to publish our thoughts on the subject. See link....
May 31, 2016
In this article we put some hard numbers to the true cost of going to Asia for PCB manufacturing. Numbers too rich for your company? Out of balance for what you need done? Managed Manufacturing Services may be the answer for you. Follow link below for the full...
Aug 11, 2015
It was a tough decision for us to exit the USA based board fabrication strategy. After all, that is why I bought the company…to be an American manufacturer. Having spent most of my career flying back and forth to Asia and Europe supporting corporate component...
