> Greetings! I run a small CM company in the > Midwest. We built our business on THT production > for the boutique music products industry and are > currently planning our launch of a > low-volume/high-mix SMT line to support the > growth of our business. > > Our goal is to pay > around $120K for the entire line, stencil through > reflow. From what I've read in the forums, > buying new is recommended in order to establish > the supplier relationship and gain training and > support. At our price-point, however, Manncorp > and Essemtec seem to be the only > options. > > Here's the trick: our first project > out of the gate will require us to precisely > place a 324-pin 0.80mm BGA, a 3mm x 3mm LGA, and > passives down to 0201; I expect more of the same > in the future. Super-fast throughput is not a > requirement for us. Quality of the finished > product is, along with easy setup and > change-over, training and support. > > Does the > Essemtec Pantera or FLX2011, or the Manncorp MC > series have what it takes to do the job for us? > Any other recommendations? Thanks in advance...
> Greetings! I run a small CM company in the > Midwest. We built our business on THT production > for the boutique music products industry and are > currently planning our launch of a > low-volume/high-mix SMT line to support the > growth of our business. > > Our goal is to pay > around $120K for the entire line, stencil through > reflow. From what I've read in the forums, > buying new is recommended in order to establish > the supplier relationship and gain training and > support. At our price-point, however, Manncorp > and Essemtec seem to be the only > options. > > Here's the trick: our first project > out of the gate will require us to precisely > place a 324-pin 0.80mm BGA, a 3mm x 3mm LGA, and > passives down to 0201; I expect more of the same > in the future. Super-fast throughput is not a > requirement for us. Quality of the finished > product is, along with easy setup and > change-over, training and support. > > Does the > Essemtec Pantera or FLX2011, or the Manncorp MC > series have what it takes to do the job for us? > Any other recommendations? Thanks in advance...
Hello
I am a small manufacturer of LED lighting, and this will be my first attempt into producing and populating PCBs. TI notice in your question you asked about the SMT and reflow purchasing in May 2012, I was hoping you could help me
I run a small LED lighting factory, were running into tons of problems, with China, customs, quality, delivery time, vendor reliability etc. etc. etc.
we have made a decision to purchase a turnkey line, we have no expectations (right now our main issue is to be able to populate the boards nothing else) other than to place the chips on the boards I was hoping you could advise me it seems there are basically two options mann tech and Essemtec since we're in Brooklyn both of them would seem logistically suitable for our needs.
Of course one of the most important questions in my mind, is support; you might even say it's the first question in my mind
Manntech seems to think they can put a full line in the $75,000, noticing most of the threads were from 2012, I think this might be feasible. right now I'm getting a cost of population in China .02 cents per chip, CM's in America seems to come up with .05 cents a chip. So if it is feasible to put a full line in for $75,000, it might make me very competitive, as you can probably imagine my market is extremely competitive, and some of the big problems are chip vendors are also making the light bulbs so pricing becomes a huge factor in the equation
so I have a couple questions, basically,
1 which vendor would be more appropriate for simple pick and place of just the chips, 2 who would be the most responsive for helping with downtime 3 who would have the most advanced technology 4 other any other vendors out there who might need my requirements
I would appreciate any help I could get on the subject, we're trying to get a product made in America and bring it back from offshore we just moved to a 20,000 ft.² factory, from 6000 ft.² and with feeling like we can be competitive
again we're a small company, so we can afford to make any mistakes in this area as our resources are limited
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