Welcome Back, Andrew Seddon! Founder and CEO of CircuitHub.
- Andrew was first on episode 131 of The Amp Hour
- CircuitHub has a partnership with Worthington Assembly
- Worthington and CircuitHub host the Pick Place Podcast
- Mimicing silicon manufacturing
- Common parts library
- Setting the factory up to have only 50k SKUs in house for speed of loading / attrition
- Driving people to 2000 parts was the original intent, but didn’t hit the mark
- Level of production needs to be high
- Many parts need to work in conjunction
- Reflow
- PnP
- Throughhole
- Selective soldering
- Inspection
- Need to solve for the whole setup. Making smt 10x better doesn’t make overall 10x better
- Starlink manufcaturing localy
- PCB fabs in the US, 50 left, getting rolled up under Private Equity (as are things like machine shops)
- AI with VCs
- How it impacts the electronics industries
- KiCad
- More AI stuff
- Automation on checking
- Still humans involved
- PDKs for chip companies
- File checking / JLC
- Types of customers
- 10 largest companies on the planets
- It’s individuals who order and try it out, that often becomes a repeat business thing
- Customers / types of boards / size of orders
- More startups who also want production
- Future serving lower cost areas
- Proto service 2-4 layer black soldermask (unlisted)
- See the CircuitHub capabilities
- Going high volume
- People making weekly or monthly units and spreading it out
- Spinning up custom in-house high volume
- Flattenting the price curve
- Tariffs
- New customers approaching them because of it
- Can consumer be done in the US?
