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I know of two occidental (well, european) hardware projects that failed because of injection mold outsorcing to China: OpenPandora and Vivali (KDE tablet). It
by DiThi 12y ago
I know of two occidental (well, european) hardware projects that failed because of injection mold outsorcing to China: OpenPandora and Vivali (KDE tablet).
It seems that the only way you can manufacture such things very cheaply in China is living there.
- bsder 12y agoExactly. If you are injecting a zillion parts and .1 cent matters, then China is great. If you don't have the volume to amortize all the pieces, screwups, and lost time, then China is a bust. However, one of the things that people miss here is that nobody here is actually talking a real volume (100K+ parts). Even if you can get the mold cheap, any competent injection molder is going to charge you an amount for NRE setup time that is going to make injecting 1,000 parts not particularly price competitive.