Some shops are really good at churning out small (100 to 10,000 units) runs of a product. They have perfected the art of retooling the line.
In the current situation, it appears that our beaglebone friends are in the process of convincing the money people to make the investment to increase manufacturing capacity. The new equipment required to increase capacity costs serious money. When one considers that the BBB is open and anyone can step in and manufacture a clone and bypass then R&D costs TI and Circuit Co have already invested, the risks start getting pretty high. What might seemed antagonizing slow to us on the outside, requires serious thought and planing on the inside. It can be challenging to communicate this when companies work as part of communities. On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:32 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > Gerald, I am just curious. Hypothetically speaking, what would it take to > retool to make a custom board ? I am not looking for an "IN" or anything I > am just curious. I'm thinking it would be a huge hassle to say the least. > > I've never worked in a PCB fab before, but worked for a CNC shop many moons > ago, and retooling for even the most basic part ( door lock keyways ), would > take a full day or two just for the setup, and a week or slightly longer to > shake out the bugs. Meanwhile, the company is "losing" money until things > are running smoothly again. > > > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Gerald Coley <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> 100 boards is not a lot of boards. Especially when you have distributors >> screaming for 50,000 boards to fill their large POs.. >> >> Gerald >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:38 PM, sixvolts <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> There are plenty of things that get built and sold in those kinds of >>> numbers, like specialized instruments. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:33:49 PM UTC-5, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, 28 May 2014, sixvolts wrote: >>>> >>>> > I've been trying to talk to the people CircuitCo about building a >>>> > run of the beaglebone black boards for a commercial project, but I >>>> > can't seem to get anyone to respond to emails and the two people I >>>> > have phone numbers for are always busy. My understanding was that >>>> > proper etiquette was to not poach boards from the distributors if >>>> > you build a device around the beaglebone and have them produced for >>>> > you. I even spoke to someone at a CircuitCo booth at a conference >>>> > last year (DesignWest - where the beaglebone black was "launched") >>>> > and they indicated this was common already for the original >>>> > beagleboards/bones. >>>> > >>>> > I can't get anyone local interested in building them because of some >>>> > of the minimum order quantities on some of the parts (like the >>>> > emmc). >>>> > >>>> > Anyone at CircuitCo around? I have money and need around 100 boards >>>> > made. >>>> >>>> not many manufacturers would consider 100 units much of a "run". >>>> that's not the sort of number that's going to get you much attention. >>>> just an observation. >>>> >>>> rday >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> ======================================================================== >>>> Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA >>>> http://crashcourse.ca >>>> >>>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday >>>> LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday >>>> ======================================================================== >>> >>> -- >>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "BeagleBoard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
