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Does anyone know of any US based consumer electronics factories set up to take small-medium sized orders from small companies...say for kickstart campaign funde
by micro_cam 14y ago
Does anyone know of any US based consumer electronics factories set up to take small-medium sized orders from small companies...say for kickstart campaign funded products like the Ouya?
- curt 14y agoIt's FAR more expensive to produce in the US, Usually between 2x-4x. I do prototyping in the US and the companies that I use also do small-medium production runs. You can find them in the Manufacturing thread I wrote.
- derda 14y agoOne problem for consumer goods production in europe / US is component sourcing. You will need a PCB-Fab, ICs, injection molding, ... . While you can get most (some things just arent built statesside anymore) of those things in the states, they will be more expensive and maybe not built to capacity (since they specialized on really small batches for example). In china you will have all of the suppliers down the road and pretty cheap. From someone who worked for a large automotive supplier, which does a lot of manufacturing here in germany, that wanted to release a consumer device I heard that you can get the whole product finished in china for the price of sourcing the components in europe.