hardware

If you need a quick estimate how much it costs to build an SMD assembly prototype, you need to roughly estimate the hours it takes to execute every step of assembly. Here we are offering times obtained by averaging our last 10 jobs. Clearly, this is not a precise science, because the PCB complexity varies. Yet, to our surprise, the hours do not differ that much. Mind, that all our jobs fit these categories: 4-layer boards 80% SMD parts boards…

(if you want to know how much time is needed to hand assemble a board, see our other blog) Are you impatient waiting for the assembly house building your prototype? Maybe you should try to build them quicker by hand. We design and build so many new products per year, that we were practically forced to build our own boards. It often happens, that before we go to our company automatic assembly lines, we hand build several engineering iterations of…