Commissioning electronic product manufacture from an Asian Supplier.

[Tom]

I want to have small electronic product manufactured. Having explored
some domestic manufacturers but failing to reach anywhere near the
budget price given the retail prices of competitive devices I am
looking to explore far eastern manufacturering.

The device contains a small number of electronic components and three
connectors mounted on a single PCB. Without going into the specifics
of my product a similar device available through the UK's distributer
, CPC, would be retailed at circa £9 -£15

As far as quantity goes, again without being specific, I know that I
have a directly comparable sales expectation as products already in
the marketplace which I anticipate is low'ish, circa <10k units /
annum.

My previous experience of using a far eastern manufacturer was
alarming to say the least. My design and even part of my advertising
copy, was replicated in a product released and channelled through
distribution within a month! C'est la vie, I privately admired their
enterprise.

If anybody here any experience of sourcing Far Eastern manufacturing I
would like to hear. I have found Alibaba brings in too many unrelated
responses and yet the contacts I directly enquire of often don't make
contact. Perhaps this isn't a problem with Alibaba? - I am cautious
that I handling my enquiries wrongly so any suggestions of the proper
handling of such enquiries welcome.

Tom

 

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I want to have small electronic product manufactured. Having explored
some domestic manufacturers but failing to reach anywhere near the
budget price given the retail prices of competitive devices I am
looking to explore far eastern manufacturering.

The device contains a small number of electronic components and three
connectors mounted on a single PCB. Without going into the specifics
of my product a similar device available through the UK's distributer
, CPC, would be retailed at circa £9 -£15

As far as quantity goes, again without being specific, I know that I
have a directly comparable sales expectation as products already in
the marketplace which I anticipate is low'ish, circa <10k units /
annum.

My previous experience of using a far eastern manufacturer was
alarming to say the least. My design and even part of my advertising
copy, was replicated in a product released and channelled through
distribution within a month! C'est la vie, I privately admired their
enterprise.

If anybody here any experience of sourcing Far Eastern manufacturing I
would like to hear. I have found Alibaba brings in too many unrelated
responses and yet the contacts I directly enquire of often don't make
contact. Perhaps this isn't a problem with Alibaba? - I am cautious
that I handling my enquiries wrongly so any suggestions of the proper
handling of such enquiries welcome.

Unless you have someone you trust (good luck) over there to watch them like a
hawk, what you propose is a setup for failure. Flip burgers, it's a better
living.

 

[Jamie]

I want to have small electronic product manufactured. Having explored
some domestic manufacturers but failing to reach anywhere near the
budget price given the retail prices of competitive devices I am
looking to explore far eastern manufacturering.

The device contains a small number of electronic components and three
connectors mounted on a single PCB. Without going into the specifics
of my product a similar device available through the UK's distributer
, CPC, would be retailed at circa £9 -£15

As far as quantity goes, again without being specific, I know that I
have a directly comparable sales expectation as products already in
the marketplace which I anticipate is low'ish, circa <10k units /
annum.

My previous experience of using a far eastern manufacturer was
alarming to say the least. My design and even part of my advertising
copy, was replicated in a product released and channelled through
distribution within a month! C'est la vie, I privately admired their
enterprise.

If anybody here any experience of sourcing Far Eastern manufacturing I
would like to hear. I have found Alibaba brings in too many unrelated
responses and yet the contacts I directly enquire of often don't make
contact. Perhaps this isn't a problem with Alibaba? - I am cautious
that I handling my enquiries wrongly so any suggestions of the proper
handling of such enquiries welcome.

Tom

The trick is to us a uC chip that needs to be programmed in your design.
Send them all they need to know about putting the components on the
boards etc.. You can use a serial connector on the board when you get
them back and place the program in them.

Jamie

 

[Rich Grise]

...Flip burgers, it's a
better living.

Hell, you can make ten bucks an hour just standing on the street corner
looking pathetic. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

The trick is to us a uC chip that needs to be programmed in your design.
Send them all they need to know about putting the components on the
boards etc.. You can use a serial connector on the board when you get
them back and place the program in them.

Jamie

You can have the pre-programmed micros shipped directly to your
assembly house. They are locked so it will not be completely
straightforward to extract the code, and the manufacturer will not
respond to requests from anyone else to ship parts containing your
code.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

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Hell, you can make ten bucks an hour just standing on the street corner
looking pathetic. ;-)

But that's a pathetic living.

 

[Rich Grise]

Hell, you can make ten bucks an hour just standing on the street corner
looking pathetic. ;-)

But that's a pathetic living.[/QUOTE]

Yeah - I know a guy who schleps a trash bag full of cans and bottles all
day and digs through other people's trash to retrieve them. He lives under
a bridge somewhere next to the railroad tracks. I'm only the detail
draftsman here, but when the work dried up, they've let me stay on as
floor sweeper and toilet scrubber.

Hell, it pays the rent.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

Yeah - I know a guy who schleps a trash bag full of cans and bottles all
day and digs through other people's trash to retrieve them. He lives under
a bridge somewhere next to the railroad tracks. I'm only the detail
draftsman here, but when the work dried up, they've let me stay on as
floor sweeper and toilet scrubber.

Hell, it pays the rent.

Thanks,
Rich

That can't be all that much work. Considered selling bags of oranges
at freeway entrances in your off time?


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Rich Grise]

Yeah - I know a guy who schleps a trash bag full of cans and bottles all
day and digs through other people's trash to retrieve them. He lives under
a bridge somewhere next to the railroad tracks. I'm only the detail
draftsman here, but when the work dried up, they've let me stay on as
floor sweeper and toilet scrubber.

Hell, it pays the rent.

That can't be all that much work. Considered selling bags of oranges
at freeway entrances in your off time?[/QUOTE]

Nah - the Mexicans have the corner on that market around here. (Whittier,
CA).

Thanks,
Rich

 

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Yeah - I know a guy who schleps a trash bag full of cans and bottles all
day and digs through other people's trash to retrieve them. He lives under
a bridge somewhere next to the railroad tracks. I'm only the detail
draftsman here, but when the work dried up, they've let me stay on as
floor sweeper and toilet scrubber.

Hell, it pays the rent.

Sorry, I don't want to live like DimBulb.