AVR-Chat

Sending again.  I think I'm getting filtered out.  For some reason my 
latest posts haven't been making it through.

At 12:27 AM 3/8/2008 +0000, Richard Cooke wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>Is there a rule of thumb for estimating the cost of getting circuit
>boards assembled?  I have a board that is about 1" x 1" with 25
>surface mount parts - most of these are standard 0603 resistors and
>caps.  Does anybody know what a per part cost I might be able to use
>for estimating the cost if I'm going to get 500 to 1000 of these made?
>Any guesses?
>
>I got one official quote for $19.50 each which almost made me fall off
>my chair.  The 500 piece cost for the electonic parts from Digi-key is
>about $4.20 so asking for $15.30/ea $500 qty) to put the parts on the
>boards seems excessive.
>
>Any ideas?


Who's suppling the parts? You or them?
    If it's them, do they dedicate parts to each customer?  How good are 
your part specs?  Do they suggest substitutions of parts they order in 
quantity.
         If they do or if you have parts that aren't common then you may 
end up buying full reels even if you only use a few parts.

Is the tooling and setup broken out separately.

For turnkey setups (they supply parts) I've had cost quoted that had the 
stuffing cost + more than I would pay for the parts. The reasoning given is 
that they are providing inventory management and sourceing functions.  I've 
also had quotes for a completed stuffed board for less than what it would 
cost me to get in the parts.

Robert

>


 From the Divided by a Common Language File (Edited to protect the guilty)
ME - "I'd like to get Price and delivery for connector Part # XXXXX"
Dist./Rep - "$X.XX Lead time 37 days"
ME - "Anything we can do about lead time?  37 days seems a bit high."
Dist./Rep - "that is the lead time given because our stock is live.... we 
currently have stock."