Davy De Waele
New Member
Hi,
We're in the process of doing a small redesign on an initial set of 5 PCB prototypes we've received. This redesign a number of "patches" we needed to do on those 5 prototypes to get them operational, and some improvements we noticed after seeing the PCBs.
The goal is now to ramp up manufacturing (20 -> 50 -> 100 -> 500).
We would also like to take this redesign as an opportunity to decrease our PCB manufacturing cost.
We started by removing all thru hole components and eliminating all components that we don't really need in a production environment (some LEDs for debugging, headers for testing, some connectors for easy external access).
This will have an impact on the board layout / size and number of components. (It's a double-sided 4 layer PCB).
In terms of the overall cost of manufacturing a PCB, what are the major cost factors that we need to take into account ?
We have a clear view on the price of the individual components and a rough idea on the price of the PCB, but what determines the price tag associated with putting the components on the PCB (pick and place / reflow / ......) ?
I can imagine that the following items an important role in the actual cost:
Thanks...
We're in the process of doing a small redesign on an initial set of 5 PCB prototypes we've received. This redesign a number of "patches" we needed to do on those 5 prototypes to get them operational, and some improvements we noticed after seeing the PCBs.
The goal is now to ramp up manufacturing (20 -> 50 -> 100 -> 500).
We would also like to take this redesign as an opportunity to decrease our PCB manufacturing cost.
We started by removing all thru hole components and eliminating all components that we don't really need in a production environment (some LEDs for debugging, headers for testing, some connectors for easy external access).
This will have an impact on the board layout / size and number of components. (It's a double-sided 4 layer PCB).
In terms of the overall cost of manufacturing a PCB, what are the major cost factors that we need to take into account ?
We have a clear view on the price of the individual components and a rough idea on the price of the PCB, but what determines the price tag associated with putting the components on the PCB (pick and place / reflow / ......) ?
I can imagine that the following items an important role in the actual cost:
- the number of components on the board
- the different type of components
- single / double sided board
- all SMD components
- size of the PCB (?)
- the quantities (obviously).
Thanks...