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Offline Martin FTopic starter

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Suggestions for EU-based PCBA (500-4000 PCB batch orders)
« on: November 06, 2024, 12:10:43 pm »
Hi all,

We are a Danish developer of electronics products and have been working with a US based PCBA for the past 8 years. However, we have been looking to potentially shift to an EU-based PCBA instead for some time. With today's victory to Trump, we expect we may need to speed this up due to the substantial risk of new duties that may negatively impact our margins in a major way.

We have around 10 different PCB designs and order each PCB type in batches of 500 to 4000 pcs. We source some of the critical components ourselves, but we prefer to have the PCBA source most of the components. Ideally, the PCBA is based in EU, offers high quality and mid-tier prices, combined with good support.

If the PCBA has a flexible online system where we can upload our designs in a simple manner (rather than handling everything ad hoc by email, for example), that is also a big plus.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Martin
« Last Edit: November 06, 2024, 12:13:13 pm by Martin F »
 

Offline tszaboo

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Re: Suggestions for EU-based PCBA (1000-4000 PCB batch orders)
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2024, 12:17:42 pm »
I'm not going to give you a specific advice. You should look for a PCBA supplier locally. Look for someone that's not to big and not too small, meaning you give them maybe 5% of their annual capacity. Any bigger percentage than that, and they might go out of business if you don't order from them for any reason. Like slow business. Any smaller percentage than that, and you will not be treated like a real customer. There are always discussions like increasing yield or specific assembly instructions, that require a lot of time invested on their side. If they are a big company, they are not going to do that, and you will be just one of the 1000 customers that they are happy to drop if there is too much trouble.
 

Offline Kim Thoa

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Re: Suggestions for EU-based PCBA (500-4000 PCB batch orders)
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2024, 06:55:03 am »
I strongly advice that you can try to explore Asia PCBA Market, such as Viet Nam.
Vietnam offers lower labor and production costs compared to many developed countries, helping companies save costs and increase profits. Moreover, Shifting production to Vietnam helps companies mitigate risks and increase flexibility in the global supply chain.
 

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Re: Suggestions for EU-based PCBA (500-4000 PCB batch orders)
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2024, 11:45:09 am »
Vietnamese taxes don't pay my pension though
 

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Re: Suggestions for EU-based PCBA (500-4000 PCB batch orders)
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2024, 09:22:05 am »
We had good experience with ATP Elektronik near Hamburg. We have used them for 100-200 Batches.
 


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