If you want to try putting up an electronic manufacturing business, you may also consider putting up your own plant that will establish your circuit board assembly line. But what will be your options to avoid getting checkmate?
You have three options for circuit board assembly:
- Invest by building your own PCB assembly department but you need to spend a lot of fortune.
- Just order your PCBAs from abroad; or
- Find a local PCB manufacturer that you can trust.
You may think that all of it can give you an edge of success. However, the danger of losing money may not be far if you pick the wrong choice. Let’s identify the risks.
The Good and the Bad
Investing in building your own circuit board assembly line is more rational if you already have a good brand and reaping success with your company. A small PCBA manufacturing plant would serve as your pilot project.
However, you still need to put up so much of your earnings in this endeavor because equipment and computers are not cheap and engineers don’t get paid cheaply either.
For the second option, if you order your printed circuit board assemblies abroad, the risk of acquiring low-quality PCBs can be a possibility not to mention the costs you have to shoulder. These include the need to visit the country frequently to check production, need for constant communication with an interpreter, doing the paperwork, paying for the storage and shipping costs and the list is endless.
Then, there are also the risks about the products that you’ll receive. They may be defective, prone to damage and repair and they may not be delivered on time you need them.
Therefore, the last option can give you the most feasible scheme. By hiring a local circuit board assembly company with lots of experience in the PCBA manufacturing, ISO certified and offers a lot of services, there won’t be hassles on your part.
The Best Option
We at Permatech Electronics has been establishing partnerships for more than three decades and serving various industries that need quality circuit board assembly. Our people are equipped with technological capabilities and we do not fail customers regardless of their needs.
We can do everything for you. We can help you with your design, source the raw materials for you, update you with our production process, test every PCBA we make comprehensively, do the paperwork and even arrange for the delivery of your goods. In other words, you can leave everything to us and we don’t hide extra charges as well.