PCB Assembly Time and Cost

[john12ax7]

Anyone have a decent estimate for low volume pcb assembly time.  Wanted to build about 20 EQs,  deciding between diy or hiring someone.

Or if there are any low volume CMs.

Basically a rough estimate of time per pad / component or cost per pad / component would be very useful.

 

[pucho812]

You are in the l.a.  area plenty of electronics assembly houses to choose from.
I don't know if any have a moq.

 

[iampoor1]

You are in the l.a.  area plenty of electronics assembly houses to choose from.
I don't know if any have a moq.

Setup cost is probably the dominate factor.

The cost depends on how many unique components you have, and then the number of pads. The few Chinese places I have looked at have been around 5c per pad.

 

[john12ax7]

You are in the l.a.  area plenty of electronics assembly houses to choose from.
I don't know if any have a moq.

Any in particular you could recommend?

 

[john12ax7]

The few Chinese places I have looked at have been around 5c per pad.

Thanks.  Having an actual ballpark number helps a lot.  Any idea on how much more US companies are?

 

[JohnRoberts]

you didn't mention SMD or TH technology.

In my experience the cost for SMD was based on pops (device placements) so not number of pads. I used quad resistors that AFAIK were only one pop, not 4 from individual resistors.

I have no idea about modern pricing.  I suspect NRE (non recurring engineering like programming placement machine, and loading components) to be significant for low volume runs, perhaps pushing economic decision toward hand placement.

JR 

 

[pucho812]

Any in particular you could recommend?

Sure. Look up paradigm electronics manufacturing. Not sure if that is their full name I just know they as paradigm.

Another one, would be g&j.  G&j ia used by a lot of pro audio companies and they are top notch. Last stint at a pro audio manufacture used them exclusively.  They were good...

 

[john12ax7]

Thanks I will look them up.