A few months back we had our pick and place machine commissioned, seriously impressive to see it banging down chips at the speed it does, it's a revelation having complete control of the manufacturing process from start to finish now.
Can you make your own boards in-house too? Some of those laser-based systems look pretty impressive for low volume prototype work.
Stu
You mean the LPKF machines? Some of those are pretty nice....and with hefty price tags to match!
We have a CNC machine which was built for us which is extremely accurate, if we have a need to prototype a circuit, generally we'd use isolation routing and do a test layout that way. (
http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/308403/4)
We did use to do a lot of prototyping through pcb pool, but we have found a chinese PCB manufacturer who gives us many more boards for not much more than we were paying for a single prototype from pcb pool, so we tend to prototype through them now and get production boards for other products bundled in.
The youtube video below is the next board that we're about to get the pick and place machine to do, trust me, soldering all those surface mount leds is not fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7huEauTA2o
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