Agree. For high volume products like the Ipod, most likely the job are send to Asia for low cost. Sometime, Even the design are outsourced to Asia. This makes it hard to get a low cost industry environment here in the USA for small volume products. The BOM cost here is close to Asia, however the labor cost is way too expensive comparing with Asia cost. Feel the same pain here. Funny ----- Original Message ---- From: Carl Denk To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:54:38 PM Subject: Re: [EE] Inexpensive low-qty (100-250ish) assembly sources. Try Inservco. http://www.inservco.com/ They do smaller jobs, lots of medical equipment like controllers for MRI's, etc. Top quality, but maybe an overkill for your purposes. They are located Northern Ohio, and can say unreserved, I would recommend. :) Forrest W Christian wrote: > I would really like to outsource some of the circuit board assembly for > our better-selling products. However, I have yet to find an assembler > which can even come close to the cost of doing it in-house. Seems like > everywhere wants more than the parts themselves cost to put them on the > board... > > Is there somewhere I haven't looked? > > -forrest > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist