The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

#699 – CircuitHub, 12 Years Later with Andrew Seddon

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Welcome Back, Andrew Seddon! Founder and CEO of CircuitHub.

  • Andrew was first on episode 131 of The Amp Hour
  • CircuitHub has a partnership with Worthington Assembly
  • Worthington and CircuitHub host the Pick Place Podcast
  • Mimicing silicon manufacturing
  • Common parts library
  • Setting the factory up to have only 50k SKUs in house for speed of loading / attrition
  • Driving people to 2000 parts was the original intent, but didn’t hit the mark
  • Level of production needs to be high
  • Many parts need to work in conjunction
    • Reflow
    • PnP
    • Throughhole
    • Selective soldering
    • Inspection
    • Need to solve for the whole setup. Making smt 10x better doesn’t make overall 10x better
    • Starlink manufcaturing localy
    • PCB fabs in the US, 50 left, getting rolled up under Private Equity (as are things like machine shops)
    • AI with VCs
    • How it impacts the electronics industries
    • KiCad
    • More AI stuff
    • Automation on checking
    • Still humans involved
    • PDKs for chip companies
    • File checking / JLC
    • Types of customers
      • 10 largest companies on the planets
      • It’s individuals who order and try it out, that often becomes a repeat business thing
      • Customers / types of boards / size of orders
      • More startups who also want production
      • Future serving lower cost areas
      • Proto service 2-4 layer black soldermask (unlisted)
      • See the CircuitHub capabilities
      • Going high volume
      • People making weekly or monthly units and spreading it out
      • Spinning up custom in-house high volume
      • Flattenting the price curve
      • Tariffs
      • New customers approaching them because of it
      • Can consumer be done in the US?
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