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Joel_Mckayyesterday at 8:34 AM0 repliesview on HN

Design for manufacturability means you leave tolerance within Factory limits, and your own prototyping process limits.

While an inexpensive PnP machine will do 50k to 80k components/hour. If you have someone doing _any_ task, than add $3 USD * number of operations per unit.

Tech is a low-margin business with a lot of regulations, and should be contracted to a proper facility if making over a few thousand units a month. Tooling up for a production line is almost always a bad idea, as it usually adds additional barriers to a product launch as people get sidetracked. =3