Post by thread:[EE]: turnkey PCB house recommendations?

Hi. Searching for recommendations for turnkey board assembly. 4 layer board, 0805 and sot-23 passives, semis are mostly tsop, ssop, and tqfp (.020" pitch). We'll provide gerbers, flash memory (programmed with the self test app), drawings, and a test fixture. Quantities aren't too good--250 to start, maybe 500 or 1000 by the end of the year. Of the three choices (quick, good, cheap--pick two), we'd like to have good and cheap. US vendor preferred. Furthermore, what kind of questions do you ask when you're evaluating an assembly house? Sample work? Seems like they're not gonna show you the stuff they have trouble with. References? Failure rate? I'm sick of sending off a design and hearing that every other boards requires "touch-up" work by hand to clear shorts. Of course, it's even worse to ship a product and get it back a week later because some of the joints were dry. thanks, newell -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList spam_OUTpiclist-unsubscribe-requestTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu

I work for a place called Peripheron, who does this sort of thing. If you like I can give you a contact. We've done work for CERN :) I'm off in new product development, and about 2000 miles from the factory, so I can't give you much direct data myself. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList .....piclist-unsubscribe-requestKILLspam@spam@mitvma.mit.edu