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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">02:52 in China and I’ve just finished a support chat with a guy at JLCPCB who was extremely helpful and fixed the problem I have.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If the West is ever going to compete with China we all need to raise our game massively.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> cheater cheater [mailto:cheater00social@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> 28 October 2021 12:19<br>
<b>To:</b> Mike Bryant<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Roman Sowa; synth-diy@synth-diy.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [sdiy] Does anyone here use JLCPCB for SMD assembly ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I looked at JM's website and my brain just melted. And it's not a language barrier.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 12:24 PM Mike Bryant <<a href="mailto:mbryant@futurehorizons.com">mbryant@futurehorizons.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">Well I just picked one at random and immediately hit the fundamental problem with European manufacturing.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">"We constantly work at least two shifts, often 6 days a week."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">Chinese companies work 24/7, so a product moves through the factory at a constant rate with no stops, except at the three annual holiday periods when all maintenance is performed. You can see this from the
times on my latest PCB as shown below. The product flows through smoothly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">As it takes the same time to fly something from China to Heathrow as from anywhere in Europe, with a product that takes say 2 weeks to go through from order to delivery, you’ve got to add over a week extra
at a European plant, which is time lost on a product schedule.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">I remember having this discussion with a UK blank PCB manufacturer over 20 years ago. They were reasonably priced for full production on a planned 4 week delivery and we ordered vast areas from them, but for
prototype and pilot runs they added huge (>400%) markups to supply PCBs on 3-7 days. I queried this and was told they did prototypes ‘out of hours’ so had to pay people overtime to do it. So I ordered from China, far more difficult and unusual to do back
then, and it arrived 10 days later.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span> MI <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">2021-10-25 16:07:04<o:p></o:p></p>
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<img border="0" width="80" height="80" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01D7CC35.C6E86150" alt="Description: https://jlcpcb.com/client/svg/after_icon.svg"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Inner Layer
<img border="0" width="80" height="80" id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image001.png@01D7CC35.C6E86150" alt="Description: https://jlcpcb.com/client/svg/play_icon.svg"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">2021-10-26 03:38:20<o:p></o:p></p>
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<img border="0" width="80" height="80" id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image001.png@01D7CC35.C6E86150" alt="Description: https://jlcpcb.com/client/svg/after_icon.svg"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Lamination
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">2021-10-26 11:44:04<o:p></o:p></p>
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<img border="0" width="80" height="80" id="_x0000_i1029" src="cid:image001.png@01D7CC35.C6E86150" alt="Description: https://jlcpcb.com/client/svg/after_icon.svg"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Drilling
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">2021-10-26 16:58:11<o:p></o:p></p>
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<img border="0" width="80" height="80" id="_x0000_i1031" src="cid:image001.png@01D7CC35.C6E86150" alt="Description: https://jlcpcb.com/client/svg/after_icon.svg"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Copper Deposition
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">2021-10-27 04:00:02<o:p></o:p></p>
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<img border="0" width="80" height="80" id="_x0000_i1033" src="cid:image001.png@01D7CC35.C6E86150" alt="Description: https://jlcpcb.com/client/svg/after_icon.svg"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Image the outer layers
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">2021-10-28 08:05:02<o:p></o:p></p>
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<img border="0" width="80" height="80" id="_x0000_i1035" src="cid:image001.png@01D7CC35.C6E86150" alt="Description: https://jlcpcb.com/client/svg/after_icon.svg"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Pattern Plating
<img border="0" width="80" height="80" id="_x0000_i1036" src="cid:image001.png@01D7CC35.C6E86150" alt="Description: https://jlcpcb.com/client/svg/play_icon.svg"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">2021-10-28 10:59:02<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"><span lang="EN-US">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Roman Sowa [mailto:<a href="mailto:modular@go2.pl" target="_blank">modular@go2.pl</a>]
<br>
Sent: 28 October 2021 10:45<br>
To: Mike Bryant; <a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Does anyone here use JLCPCB for SMD assembly ?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">Here's a short list I made for a friend from UK who complained their local service in that are is terrible:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">At one time when I was selecting manufacturing parter, I wanted JM to be the one. They seem to be super quality, and not that far from my place.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">Back then they said that 100 of something with around 50 components is absolutely something they would love to do. But this may have changed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"><a href="https://elzab-manufacturing.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://elzab-manufacturing.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"><a href="https://en.elhurt.com/electronics-manufacturing-services/electronics-assembly/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://en.elhurt.com/electronics-manufacturing-services/electronics-assembly/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"><a href="https://printor.pl/en/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://printor.pl/en/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"><a href="https://www.sims.pl/en/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.sims.pl/en/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"><a href="https://ente.com.pl/en/contract-manufacturing-of-electronics-ems/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://ente.com.pl/en/contract-manufacturing-of-electronics-ems/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"><a href="https://www.jm-ems.pl/offer,66.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.jm-ems.pl/offer,66.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"><a href="https://www.eae-elektronik.pl/en/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.eae-elektronik.pl/en/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"><a href="https://www.prototypy.com/t/61,Home" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.prototypy.com/t/61,Home</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">Strangely enough I do all assembly in-house, so can't really share any first hand experience with those.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">There was an article some time ago in industry magazine here about EMS, where they included a few of the companies. There was a chart with about<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">70 companies showing who does what. It's in jpg so you have to type all the links and in Polish, so if anyone is brave enough to try, I can share it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">Roman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">W dniu 2021-10-27 o 16:48, Mike Bryant pisze:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> Always willing to consider anything advantageous to my bottom line. Can we have some links to potential PCB manufacture and assembly houses and I'll investigate ?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> -----Original Message-----<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> From: Synth-diy [mailto:<a href="mailto:synth-diy-bounces@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy-bounces@synth-diy.org</a>] On Behalf Of
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> Roman Sowa<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> Sent: 27 October 2021 15:37<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> To: <a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">
synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Does anyone here use JLCPCB for SMD assembly ?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> Have anyone considered ordering assembly in Poland?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> We have lots of places doing all sort of things from designing circuit to shipping final products in foiled colorful box to end customers and everything in between. Couple of years ago it was advertized as
"Chinese prices, European quality".<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> Roman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">> W dniu 2021-10-27 o 16:06, Neil Johnson via Synth-diy pisze:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">>> Hi Mike,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">>>> When SMD assembly was a new service at JLCPCB there were obviously teething problems. For example parts shown as rotated online and so on but the PCBs always came back fine as they spent time fixing everything.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">>> Have you tried PCBWay? I know they are used by several instrument
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">>> manufacturers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-3598510469181338633msoplaintext">>> Neil<o:p></o:p></p>
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