Generally, production houses are oriented to doing production PCBs only, and proto houses can't compete in production. Almost ALL heavy production is done in Taiwan, Korea or China if its 4-6layers. US manufacturers have too heavy of a tax burden (paying for soldiers in Iraq, Afghanuistan, Bosnia, etc) to be economically viable. --Bob At 08:31 PM 7/24/2003 +0300, you wrote: >I have searched and looked at the piclist and got a lot of information about >companies for doing prototype pcbs and assembly. Should we still stick to >them for production PCBs and assembly? When I mean production, the >quantities start from 1000 and up to 10000 units. Or is this still >considered prototype? > >Any help is appriciated, > >Omer > >-- >http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! >email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body --------------- NOTICE 1. This account can accept email & attachments up to 10M in size. 2. Federal Monitors: At request of client, some attachments are encrypted. Please DO NOT delay traffic; please reply with credentials for password. -------------- -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body