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by abielefeld 8mo ago
Hey! Don't hesitate to get in touch with us, I read your website but there isnt so much information yet, but Alex and I would love to hear more :)
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by abielefeld 8mo ago
That's the dirty secret of "the employment shortage". Under pay, no one takes the job, so justify off-shoring. The truth, having talked to employees at big firms, is that in the past, entire factories were off shored to save
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by abielefeld 8mo ago
For an example with a website, see Waterott, it's run by one person who has a single Siplace SMT machine and stencils manually, and he has no issues earning money.
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by abielefeld 8mo ago
Yes, it's all about fast turnaround without pain. Manufacturers in china just do it fast, and avoid all the pains, they actually care about customer experience above all, something we have to learn from ourselves obviously! As I said i
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by abielefeld 8mo ago
Sadly I cannot disclose it
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by abielefeld 8mo ago
I think so too, because the bar to economic sustainability is not incredibly high. I know a lot of one-man businesses operating with one Siplace pick and place machine and making a good living out of it. Many people don't have the desi
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by abielefeld 8mo ago
Hey, talk speaker here, that's a great point! A discussion that got cut from the talk at the early draft process was defining what "small-series" and "large-series" mean. To me, at a human scale and without dystopia
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by abielefeld 8mo ago
This is happening already! The 28th regime ( https://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/the-28th-regime... ) will simplify the framework to register and operate companies in the EU, also the push by the EU commiss
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by abielefeld 8mo ago
I think the original commenter means companies that manufacture their own products but do not offer manufacturing services. You can't beat JLC because the model from JLC is that they lose money on all order less than 100 boards, so tha
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by abielefeld 8mo ago
Hi, talk speaker here, we are hoping to assemble our first products this year. OpenPnP is currently more than able to assemble electronics, Opulo and LumenPnP are used by many profitable companies (many I know first hand). Our opinion (shar
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by abielefeld 8mo ago
Hey, I'm one of the two speakers :) The commenter above you phrased it well: "Price-reasonable", to us, it's first about breaking even. I will look into the companies you linked, looks interesting! Though to give you foo
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by abielefeld 8mo ago
Hey! Talk speaker here, thank you so much for these words. This is exactly what we wanted to convey: Let's act, our way isnt the best way, but it is the path we're on, and there is little we can do on our own to get to another pat
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by abielefeld 8mo ago
Hey, original talk speaker here. I agree with this sentiment, we are very geared for high-quality, high-spec industrial designs in Europe. CE for simple consumer products is actually not so pricy, and things are moving very quickly there in
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by abielefeld 8mo ago
What is really interesting is that worker pay in tier 1 cities in China (e.g. Shenzen) actually is higher than in EU countries such as Slovenia, Bulgaria or Czech republic. Incidentally these countries have a large number of EMS, and we kno
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by abielefeld 8mo ago
Hi, Augustin here, one of the presenters. As other commenters pointed out, the electronics industry is quite big in Europe, on paper it generates a lot of money and sustains a lot of jobs. The issue is a bit more complex, and you point it o
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by abielefeld 8mo ago
Hi! Augustin here, one of the presenters of the talk: Alex actually built a vapour phase soldering oven from scratch a few years ago! Indeed they are not exactly practical for series production, though they are amazing for small runs of ver
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by abielefeld 8mo ago
Hi! Have you every checked out aisler.net? In my opinion they do an amazing job, it's not quite JLCPCB prices, but maybe only 20% higher depending on what service you take, and they deliver faster since they are based in europe. Their
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