Turnkey manufacturing services
Innovation and creativity is part of everything we do, so even when we decided to offer manufacturing services, we had to take this service beyond what everyone else offers. Today, we are announcing a new website that is dedicated just for this purpose.
A new unique approach
The first approach is in the fact that we, optionally, provide and stock a long list of stock components. This means that the customer doesn’t need to buy full reels of parts, that mostly go to waste. Also, GHI does not need to sort through the parts sent by the customer. The parts will cost less as GHI buys the parts in very high volumes.
Secondly, while the manufacturing is done in our facility in USA, our service fees are lower than the competition and some cases even compete with Asian prices. Thanks to system we put on our new website, most operations are automated. This means no human errors and lower prices. The website automatically outputs the data needed to go directly in the machines.
Effective for low volumes
All the above allows us to build circuit boards in low volumes effectively. An example would be a first run of a new design or small run of a community creation.
A cloud for circuit board projects
Even if not ordering, the website is a convenient place to store/maintain circuit board projects. These projects can optionally be made public, with an appropriate license, making this an ideal place for open source designs.
We are almost ready!
As of today, the website is live but it is for demonstration purposes only, We expect to start accepting orders very soon. Please visit the website to learn more about it and do not forget to check out the FAQ. http://www.TurnkeyAssembly.com/
We look forward to hearing your comments and suggestions.
Gus, this is very interesting, but I have a few questions.
I od not see any reason why not, unless a country has export restrictions of course.
We can place down to 0201, so placing is not a problem and as far as the PCB, we can get you about anything. However, we will list official capabilities on the website.
Yes
We talked about this but as of now, no.
Of course. All designs are private until you decide you want to make them public and you get to pick which CC license you want to use.
Cool JIT. From a purely developers perspective, you have gotten me slightly more interested in the electronic side. Still mostly over my head and seems like a daunting learning curve. Some step by step example projects for us slow devs could prove me wrong however.
I am willing to pay a high markup for the following Modules if anyone has these skills
Throughout the many designs we provide publicly, you already have all the components in EAGLE. As for the Gerber files, EAGLE gives you the Gerber files with one click and we will provide some tutorials to help out just in case.
@ Gus - Yes I know that, I was just wondering if you plan some central eagle parts library, but anyway, like the service and I’m going to at least test it when ready.
how about 10x more - that’s not a bad worst case to use
Honestly you’ll find the NRE costs of doing one versus 10 are rarely different, so you’re much better off doing quantity rather than totally one-offs. The other alternative is just make small run PCBs and hand place/assemble components you buy in small quantities.
yep,my point is, assume it’ll cost you the same to buy 10x of a module as it will to buy 1x or 2x of them. The cost to any contract manufacturer is roughly the same to set up solder paste, to set up the pick-and-place, to load components, run the boards thru the machine, and then reflow them.
If you only want one or two of a module, use one of the PCB board houses “prototype run” capabilities (oshpark is 3x boards; breadboardkiller is the same for AU; dirtypcbs or seeed studio or DFRobot or… for 10x boards that leaves you with 8x decorative boards). It’s then still likely to be cheaper for you to buy the parts and assemble at home (and not that hard to do)
@ Gary - Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere? Maybe I’m missing something, but I was trying to add a project, and there are a number of things I just don’t know how to do (for example, I’ve never used Fiducial Markers, so I’ve no idea what to do in that part of the Gerber upload section…do I need to modify my Eagle project and re-export the Gerbers?). Similarly, the add component section describes an X and Y position, with a reference…is that one of the Fiducial Markers, or…?
You will have to modify your design to include these and re-export. As for the component section a.k.a. Bill of Materials, if you’re using Eagle simply go File > Export > Partlist and you’ll get a text file with a Position column that contains the (XY). The Part column value can be your Reference identifier for each position (e.g. C1, C2, C3 …). Look at other project’s BoM to see their reference labels.
@ Josh - Thanks. I’ll have to re-install Eagle, I think (the board design was several PC paves ago), but that at least helps me understand what’s expected for those areas.
