Electronic Device Assembly Business

Nowadays with the miniaturization of machines, small businessmen or engineers with brilliant ideas can easily compete with the giant players. Production machines used to be available only to people with huge funds has become cheaper and people that can afford to buy a car can easily invest their money in these machines to start an electronics assembly business from pcb fab to enclosure. And the best part is all these machines can easily fit on a small apartment.

The machines needed to start the business are the folliwing:

1. Design and Prototyping Equipments

• Personal Computer
• Mini Cnc(90mm x 120mm work area) for pcb prototyping
• 3d Printer for the prototyping of enclosures
• Laser Cutter for enclosure porotyping
• Oscilloscope/Multimeter and other tools
• CAD Software

2. Production Machines

• Pick and Place Machine
• Cnc Router-300*400
• Reflow Oven
• Pcb Stencil Printer
• Mini Plastic Injection Machine
• Laser Cutter- 300*400

All the above mentioned machines could only cost about the same price as a brand  new Toyota Vios or less than 1Million pesos.

The business is ideal for contract manufacturing or would cater to the market where inventors require to produce less than 100 units for experimenting how their product will be accepted by their target market. This market segment is where I belong because I have very limited budget. Based on my experience, the creation of the plastic mould itself is already unaffordable because it would cost around Php100,000(this is made in China because somebody has told me that the mould used in mineral water bottle caps was worth Php 375000 done locally) already and the manufacturer only accept a minimum of 1000 units. Plastic moulds can already be 3d printed because there are filaments that only melts at 210 degrees celcious while thermo plastics(the material used in plastic injection) easily melts at 130 degrees.

The equipments are also ideal and must haves for every school and/or  Univerisities because these machines are also being used by the industry so it is good for students to have hands on experience and if they have access to this equipments they will be encourage to be creative and who knows they could produce new products that could become like Samsung or Apple someday. The sales of both companies is enough to make the Phillippines become a very rich country.