Assembly Conversion Cost Revisited

CEERIS International has released its 2001 analysis of PCA cost of conversion - http://www.ceeris.com/conversion.htm -, which is defined as the difference between transfer/selling price of an ICT-functioning PCA minus the cost of material. Two cost drivers are most essential: geography and volume. For example, if the assembly of a component for a high volume board costs $0.10, it will be only $0.06 in a very high volume environment, but almost forty cents if low volume. Very high volume applies to boards when assembly amounts to more than one hundred million components per year and typically corresponds to a continuous assembly processes. High volume boards are defined by the yearly assembly of ten to one hundred million components per board part number, and a low volume board is less than one million components per year.

Learn more about the new CC-2001 report by going to the February 2002 issue of "SMT Magazine's" table of contents at http://smt.pennnet.com/Articles/Print_TOC.cfm?Section=Articles&SubSection=PrintTOC and scroll down to "EMS Trends" and click on "Assembly Conversion Cost Revisited."

CEERIS International�s website is http://www.ceeris.com.