Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 05 15:54:55 EDT 2005 | cmiller
Every company does things different. Some use machine time, some per placement, some per placement by part type. It would depend on how the company is set up and how they allocate overhead and what problems they do or dont have with particular part t
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 10 08:43:10 EST 2006 | jax
There is no set formula. You need to customize this number around your operation. Depending on how you account for: Capital Equipment Costs Utilities Building Costs Overhead services Consumables ( Flux, Paste, Glue, ...... ) Once you get the costs
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 28 19:55:31 EDT 2006 | scott
I would agree for a bare board house, are you NUTS? Look what happend to McCurdey's high tech line in S. Cal., go chewed up and spit out by China... Plating, etching, environmental issues, regulations, lack of people who like doing that work... endle
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 07 10:52:21 EDT 2006 | Machine Designer
Tsk tsk, UIC... how the mighty have fallen... now owned by financial partners who do not know the industry and who will be eager to recoup an investment in an aging manufacturing industry which sorely needs new and strong global management... Not men
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 17 09:58:18 EDT 2007 | rgduval
I'd say it all depends on the CM, and how they cost out their production floor. I've seen everything from a flat cost per component placement (something like .05/machine placed smt part, .15/machine placed tht part, .25/hand placed tht part) to stra
Electronics Forum | Thu May 18 22:00:38 EDT 2000 | Dean
...ahh....memory lane. 10 years ago I worked on a project for a customer who needed a low cost, high volume board for RFID tags for cows (yes, moo). These boards were 0.50 inch in diameter, 50 per panel, double sided SMT punch style fabs. 300,000 b
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 30 09:10:12 EST 2015 | spoiltforchoice
How do you cost the products you sell? We do contract work as well as building our own products but both work streams go through the same costing procedures. How you structure your costs really depends on your business. For instance, you can includ
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 01 08:54:46 EDT 2000 | Chris May
Dear Ashok, My practice is that if you see it as a source of a potential problem, label and monitor/measure/test it. OK, so it may be a lot of work up-front, but what is the risk involved in not doing it ?? There is no grey area, do all or nothing
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 01 08:54:50 EDT 2000 | Chris May
Dear Ashok, My practice is that if you see it as a source of a potential problem, label and monitor/measure/test it. OK, so it may be a lot of work up-front, but what is the risk involved in not doing it ?? There is no grey area, do all or nothing
Electronics Forum | Sun Apr 29 15:43:38 EDT 2001 | davef
Call me wet behind the ears!!! I'd kinda like to see you refine your processes on your products before you go-out drying-out your ears on someone else's products. The worst contractors in the world seem to be those with their own product lines and