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Hey! Don't hesitate to get in touch with us, I read your website but there isnt so much information yet, but Alex and I would love to hear more :)

That's the dirty secret of "the employment shortage". Under pay, no one takes the job, so justify off-shoring. The truth, having talked to employees at big firms, is that in the pa…

For an example with a website, see Waterott, it's run by one person who has a single Siplace SMT machine and stencils manually, and he has no issues earning money.

Yes, it's all about fast turnaround without pain. Manufacturers in china just do it fast, and avoid all the pains, they actually care about customer experience above all, something…

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I think so too, because the bar to economic sustainability is not incredibly high. I know a lot of one-man businesses operating with one Siplace pick and place machine and making a…

Hey, talk speaker here, that's a great point! A discussion that got cut from the talk at the early draft process was defining what "small-series" and "large-series" mean. To me, at…

This is happening already! The 28th regime ( https://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/the-28th-regime... ) will simplify the framework to register and operate companies in the …

I think the original commenter means companies that manufacture their own products but do not offer manufacturing services. You can't beat JLC because the model from JLC is that th…

Hi, talk speaker here, we are hoping to assemble our first products this year. OpenPnP is currently more than able to assemble electronics, Opulo and LumenPnP are used by many prof…

Hey, I'm one of the two speakers :) The commenter above you phrased it well: "Price-reasonable", to us, it's first about breaking even. I will look into the companies you linked, l…

Hey! Talk speaker here, thank you so much for these words. This is exactly what we wanted to convey: Let's act, our way isnt the best way, but it is the path we're on, and there is…

Hey, original talk speaker here. I agree with this sentiment, we are very geared for high-quality, high-spec industrial designs in Europe. CE for simple consumer products is actual…

What is really interesting is that worker pay in tier 1 cities in China (e.g. Shenzen) actually is higher than in EU countries such as Slovenia, Bulgaria or Czech republic. Inciden…

Hi, Augustin here, one of the presenters. As other commenters pointed out, the electronics industry is quite big in Europe, on paper it generates a lot of money and sustains a lot …

Hi! Augustin here, one of the presenters of the talk: Alex actually built a vapour phase soldering oven from scratch a few years ago! Indeed they are not exactly practical for seri…

Hi! Have you every checked out aisler.net? In my opinion they do an amazing job, it's not quite JLCPCB prices, but maybe only 20% higher depending on what service you take, and the…

Hi HN! I'm Augustin, Engineer and co-founder of Eilbek Research. In the midts of dozens of posts about AI startups and vibecoding, I bring you a no-frills, rigorous engineering com…