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Need reliable production for your board?

We review your BOM, then produce and test your boards on our PCB and SMT production network, matched to your product and managed by our own project and manufacturing team.

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An overhead view of many parallel SMT lines

Inside a line

From bare board to soldered PCBA

Bare boards are made in PCB partner factories; SMT production runs on 20 SMT lines (40.39 million placements a day), with our own project and manufacturing team managing each production run.

An SMT line with a printer, placement machines and a reflow oven

1Board conveyorBoards move from machine to machine on the line conveyor.
2Solder paste printerPrints solder paste onto the pads.
3SMT mountersPick parts from the feeders and place them on the board.
4Reflow ovenMelts the paste to solder every joint.
5Finished boardsBoards leave the line in racks, ready for inspection.

Capacity & matching

The right line for every board

Our resource network matches each project to the PCB and SMT resources that fit the product: its performance requirements, its volumes and more.

20SMT lines
40.39Mplacements per day
8 yrson the same PCB and SMT production base

How we match resources SMT lines and capacity

Take over your production

Made somewhere else today? Send us the files.

Send your BOM and Gerber files. We review the BOM, then produce and test the boards through our resource network.

BOMPart numbers, manufacturers and quantities.
Gerber filesPlus anything else you have: placement files, test requirements, a sample board.
Target quantity and dateSo the quote matches your plan.

Kitted component trays beside SMT placement machines

BOM optimisation

Cost, availability, alternatives

Before the first board is produced, our sourcing team and R&D engineers go through your BOM together.

01
Cost
Lines that cost more than they need to, with options to bring them down.
02
Availability
End-of-life and long lead-time parts, found before they stop your production.
03
Alternatives
Checked by our R&D engineers, used only after you approve. How we check

PCB fabrication

Through vetted partner factories

Bare boards are made in PCB partner factories that our project and manufacturing team manages for you.

01DrillingHoles and vias drilled to your files.
02PlatingThrough-hole plating and copper build-up.
03Surface finishENIG or lead-free HASL.
04ProfilingCNC routing or V-cut.
05E-testBare boards tested electrically.
06FQCFinal quality check before the boards move on.

Drilling
Plating
Surface finish
Profiling
E-test
FQC

Parameters: Capabilities

SMT production

Managed by our team, on 20 SMT lines

Solder paste printing, component placement and reflow run on JUKI, Yamaha and Panasonic lines, with our own project and manufacturing team managing each production run.

Placement heads, tape feeders and a board inside an SMT machine

1Placement headPicks each part with a vacuum nozzle and places it.
2Board in positionHeld still while the parts are placed.
3Tape feedersMove the component tape forward one part at a time.
4Component reelsOne reel for each part number on the BOM.

Testing

AOI, X-ray and functional test

Every production process is checked with online and offline AOI and X-ray inspection. Boards are 100% functionally tested before shipment.

Online AOI
Offline AOI
X-ray

Full list of test items: Capabilities

Production control

Our team controls each production run on the line

Process management on every production run: from the first board to the last, our team works from validated data and follows the results.

01Validated firmware & test dataWe hand the line firmware and test data we have already validated.
02On-site test controlOur team controls the hardware and software tests on site.
03First-article inspectionReviewed by our team before production continues.
04Test & defect dataFollowed through the run, to supervise the process and improve it.