By Greg Papandrew, co-founder of DirectPCB Iโve been on the road with Levin Liu, our sales engineering manager, visiting customers. This is Levin’s first visit to the U.S. Heโs...
DirectPCBโs multilingual team is focused on providing more choices to printed circuit board buyers across Europe! Along with, of course, better service and lower pricing. Give us a chance...
If you buy bare PCBs offshore, youโve likely been following the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on IEEPA tariffs. Like many of you in the OEM and EMS space,...
The current US board market is spookier than it seems. Read about it in my latest column in Circuits Assembly…
By Greg Papandrew Courts and costs and codes, all in the latest edition of the Better Board Buying newsletter on LinkedIn!
By Greg Papandrew Most PCB supplier scorecards belong in the shredder. I talk to purchasing managers at EMS & OEM companies all the time who spend hours building 50-point...
By Greg Papandrew The Supreme Court did not ban all tariffs when it comes to PCBs. The Section 301 Tariffs (China 25%) are still in place. The IEEPA (10%)...
By Greg Papandrew PCB buyers love certifications because they look like shortcuts: one stamp, less risk. But for aerospace, medical and automative printed circuit boards, the reality is thatย AS9100,...
๐๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ ๐จ๐๐ฅ. Waiting 8 weeks for product is a business failure. Last March, I wrote about the looming crunch in US manufacturing capacity. Fast forward...
Gold has been hitting record highs. ๐ If you are still specifying ENIG surface finish on every single PCB “just to be safe,” you are setting money on fire....