CircuitHub, 12 Years Later with Andrew Seddon

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?