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Low Volume PCB Assembly

Low Volume PCB Assembly, also called Small Volume PCB Assembly, which refers to a small quantity of printed circuit board assemblies with quantity ranges from 100pcs to 1,000pcs, and this service always comes with DFM Checking and DFT Checking process. As a PCB Assembly Provider in China, we provide full-turnkey PCB Assembly Services in small/ low volumes, including PCB Fabrication, Components Sourcing and PCB Assembly. If in demand, we also provide value-added Functional Testing service to you.

Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Service

To avoid several engineering issues that may hamper the fabrication process, which could possibly cause delivery delays, we use a Design for Manufacturing (DFM) service that functions as a method of scrutinizing the quality of the customer's engineering documents such as Gerber files, bill of materials, assembly drawings, and circuit diagrams. Additionally, it will panel the circuit boards, examine your components list to check its accuracy prior to the components being ordered. SYS Tech is able to give economical price to its consumers due to incorporating its DFM service into its circuit board assembly.

Pre-production Test Boards

To avoid the hazards and extra expense of reworking, SYS Tech will initially produce a limited number of circuit boards and delivery them to you for examination before manufacturing the whole order. Before shipping of an order for complete production, we will check all manufactured circuit boards, and verify the quality of ball grid array and leadless component assembly by means of an X-ray inspection device. PCBs will not be shipped until all areas of concern have been addressed.

Additional Ways to Reduce Your Costs

SYS Tech takes pleasure in maintaining long-lasting relationships with its customers. We give further cost savings to our long-term customers by discounting set up charges for NRE and stencils on subsequent orders. Furthermore, we also pass cost per component discounts to our customers, we use component vendors who provide discounts for big volume orders. Our worldwide distributor relationships enable us to procure quality components at economical rates. We make all efforts to ensure our consumers get the best quality that a turn-key circuit board service provider can give.

Why choose our Sub-assembly service?

1. 100% quality guarantee with the dedicated assembly line and experienced QC group backed by, minimize the quality problem.
2. Easy and convenient ordering process – you just send an email to us about your requirement, and we take the rest.
3. One-stop service and dedicated staff follow-up from electronics production/procurement, processing to assembly, customers will save much time to deal with multiple suppliers.
4. Cost-effectiveness - cooperated with the direct supplier without a distributor.

CNC machine main board assembly
Number of PADS: 838
Number of components: 182
PCB size: 190*80mm
Process: 2 sides SMT soldering+Through hole soldering
Min. SMD chip package: 0201
Min. Pitch: 0.5mm

Advantages of Low Volume PCB Assembly:

1. Quality: Offer higher quality. Since each PCB is given more attention and inspection, small-batch production makes it easier to identify and resolve any quality issues, ensuring that each PCB meets design specifications.

2. Cost: While the cost per unit may be higher, the overall cost is lower. Does not require large upfront investments in raw materials, machinery, or labor, and it allows for better inventory control, reducing inventory costs and waste rates.

3. Time: Faster delivery times. With a shorter production cycle, low volume pcb assembly manufacturing can be completed more quickly and is better able to accommodate urgent requirements or changes.

4. Flexibility: Offers greater flexibility, enabling easier customization and prototyping to meet the specific needs of customers.

5. Adaptation to Urgent Demands: Quickly adjust production lines to accommodate urgent demands or changes, ensuring a rapid response to market fluctuations.

6. Prototyping: During the product development phase, meet the need for producing a small number of samples for testing and validation.

7. Education and Training: In electronic engineering and related fields, low volume pcb assembly can be used to produce experimental boards and teaching materials.

8. Customization: In certain special application scenarios, customers may require customized PCBs. Meet these pcbsonalized demands.

In short, small volume pcb assembly is more suitable for electronic products that require limited customization, such as medical devices, industrial control systems, and research equipment. The production cycle is relatively short after placing the order, allowing for faster production and delivery, and it can also adapt more quickly to market changes and technological updates.

Low Volume PCB Assembly：Flexibility and Customization

Compared to high volume pcb assembly, small volume pcb assembly have the advantages of flexibility and quick response. Small volume allow manufacturers to adjust their designs in a short period of time to adapt to rapid market changes or meet specific customer customization needs. This production method is commonly used in areas such as prototyping of new products, medical equipment, or military applications. Although this cost is relatively high, it provides more design freedom.

Please note: Before mass production of a new product, you can try placing a sample order for product testing. Sample orders can detect problems in advance and avoid risks for both parties. Through sample communication, both parties can ensure that the product quality meets the customer's needs. Only when the customer is satisfied can they trust the supplier and continue to cooperate in the future, gradually forming a good cooperative relationship.

If you don't know which company to choose because you want to place a small number of sample orders and cannot meet the MOQ of other companies, you may consider SysPCB. (There is no MOQ for orders and will not treat customers differently based on the order quantity!)

Small and medium volume PCB manufacturers in China

According to the latest industry analysis report, the total output value of the China PCB industry has exceeded 60% of the global scale, and the annual compound growth rate is as high as 5%. The PCB market is accelerating, stimulating small and medium volume printed circuit board production mode.

With the entry of the 5G era, the demand for communication PCB boards continues increasing. On the other hand, Smartphone, tablet PC, VR/AR, electronic watches and other wearable devices have always been hotspots in the consumer electronics industry. With the fast updates and iterations of new consumer electronics, new product forms are emerging one after another, and will penetrate in every aspect of daily life. The rapid development of other industries will also bring opportunities to the PCB market.

Driven by the development of science and technology, facing the increasing demand and vigorous development of market, the demand for electronic information of various products has gradually increased, and new electronic products have continued to emerge, such as 5G communications, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. It will enter a new cycle of technology and products, enabling the usage and market of printed circuit board products to continue to expand. In particular, the electronic industry chain is large in scale and strong in supporting capabilities, and printed circuit boards are the key to carrying electronic components and are also a bridge connecting circuit transmission.

High standards, high quality, and high efficiency will become the trend.

The current customers have high-standard PCB quality demands. In this kind market competition, in order to occupy a place, you must quickly keep up with the pace with high efficiency and high quality. The so-called low prices and fast delivery is not enough, or just find a manufacturer with high technical barriers problems or other problems, which has no value for subsequent development, it will also increases various costs and accumulates various problems.

At present, competition in the China printed circuit board industry is becoming increasingly fierce. Although the market expands unceasingly, but due to the competition, and other realistic problems, such as the continuous rise of raw material prices, electric power cuts inside China recently, and shortages of integrated circuit chips. China printed circuit board companies may under certain pressure, it is necessary to adapt to market changes and plan development strategy.

As a technology-intensive industry, PCB manufacturing has many characteristics.

Such as complex production processes, high product quality requirements and wide application scenarios, and high requirements for product technology. As the competition in the industry continues to intensify, both PCB manufacturers and customers have begun to pay more attention to the quality of PCB products. If the products are unreliable, even if the technical performance is advanced, the best performance will not be achieved.

Some China PCB manufacturers still mainly focus on the production of ordinary PCB products, with comparatively low product added value and low product manufacturing technology and craftsmanship level, which can't meet customers' product quality and diversified needs. It is understood that although the overall growth rate of the mobile phone and computer markets has been slow, the accelerated growth of servers and the upgrading of structured demand for mobile phones have driven the demand for high-end PCB products.

China PCB manufacturer SYS Technology has been focusing on the innovation and development of PCB technology, continuously improving the ultimate process capability, and building a flexible production system that adapts to small-batch and multiple batches to meet customer's product needs with high efficiency, high quality and one-stop service.