Low-Cost Quick Turn Flex PCB Prototypes manufacturing

We recommend you Quick Turn Flexible PCB prototype service for function testing of new products prior to making a commitment to a full production run. Benefits of developing Quick Turn PCB include:

1. Rapidly test and correct designs if there are any mistakes - After waiting over a week for your full boards, you will be eager to get them going in your applications. When you test your design beforehand with PCB prototypes, you can do just that.

2. Benefit from lower production tolerances - It offers a clear indication of how well your PCB will perform.

What is Flexible Printed Circuit Board

Flexible circuit board, also known as "Flexible Printed Circuit Board", "Flexible PCB", is a printed circuit made of flexible insulating substrates.

Flexible PCB provide excellent electrical performance, can meet the design needs of smaller and higher density installation, but also help to reduce assembly processes and enhance reliability.

Flexible circuit board is the only solution to meet the requirements of miniaturization and mobility of electronic products. It can bend, winding and fold freely. It can withstand millions of dynamic bending without damaging the conductor. It can be arranged arbitrarily according to the spatial layout requirements, and can move and expand arbitrarily in three-dimensional space, so as to achieve the integration of component assembly and conductor connection.

Flexible circuit boards can greatly reduce the volume and weight of electronic products, which is suitable for the development of electronic products in the direction of high density, miniaturization and high reliability.

Price Composition of Flexible Circuit Board

1. Different materials used in FPC softboard result in different prices.

For example, common double-sided flexible circuit board, sheets generally have PI, PET and so on. The thickness of sheets varies from 0.0125 mm to 0.10 mm, and the thickness of copper varies from 1/3 oz to 3 oz. All these lead to great price differences. At the same time, there are also price differences among material manufacturers, i.e. different brands. This is the price diversity of material selection. The material also includes steel sheet, FR4, PI, FCCI copper foil reinforcement material accessories and so on.

2. The price of flexible circuit boards varies with the process used.

Different production processes can also result in different costs, such as Immersion Gold, Immersion tin or OSP, shape accuracy requirements, wet or dry film lines, etc. will form different costs, resulting in different prices.

3. Different technical difficulties of flexible circuit boards cause different prices.

Under the same process, if we design flexible circuit boards with different difficulty, we will also incur different costs.

For example, two kinds of circuit boards, one with excessive holes on the board and the other within the normal range, will result in different drilling costs.

There are also lines, such as a line width spacing greater than 0.1MM, the other is less than 0.1mm, which will also cause price differences, because the difficult board scrap rate is high, the cost will inevitably increase, resulting in different prices.

4. The price varies according to the customer's requirements.

The level of customer requirements will directly affect the product rate of PCB manufacturers, such as a board according to IPC-A-6013, class 1 requirements have 98% qualified rate, but according to class 3 requirements may only be 90% qualified rate, resulting in different costs of PCB factory, and ultimately lead to changes in product prices.

5. Price Diversity Caused by Different Manufacturers of Flexible Circuit Board

Even if the same product, because different manufacturers have different process equipment and technology level, it will also form different costs.

Nowadays, many manufacturers like to produce gold-plated PCB board because of its simple process and low cost, but some of them produce gold-plated board, which increases the cost because of scrap, so they prefer to produce tinplate or tinplate, so their price of tinplate is lower than that of gold-plated circuit board.

6. Price Differences Caused by Different Ways of Payment

At present, flexible circuit board factories generally adjust the price of flexible circuit boards according to different payment methods, ranging from 5% to 10%, which also results in price differences.

7. Price Diversity Caused by Regional Differences

Prices vary in different regions, so regional differences also lead to price diversity.

8. Prices are different due to different plating methods

Local plating is about 15% higher than total plating.

9. Surface treatment of golden finger

The difference between gold plating and tin plating is about 5%.

10: The bad rate in FPC production process also determines the unit price of FPC.

11: The cost of SMT and the bad rate also determine the unit price of FPC.

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