Openpandora Team News - Fresh news from the board production (2010-10-20)

October 22nd, 2010, 01:39 Posted By: wraggster

News from http://boards.openpandora.org/index....on-2010-10-20/

Well, it's more than time for an update on the board production site.
Michael had a conference call today with the company, and here is what they told us:

Over 2000 boards are finished with SMT populating.
The last 1000 boards are half finished (SMT populating only on one side yet).

Over 1000 boards have already been tested (well, except for the nubs).

While not all 3000 are finished yet, if what they tell is true, they should be finished when the nubs arrive.

We're currently also working together with another company that is VERY interested in the whole Pandora project.
If sales go higher we might need more than one company to actually produce the boards, as the capacity of the current one would be full.
Also, the given deadline have not been held yet (they wanted all boards finished except for the nubs on Monday). We need reliable deadlines if we want to give reliable lead times in the future. It just adds to our costs if parts, etc. are there and paid but the production did not finish in time.
But first, everything needs to be setup and test runs have to be made before we can say we will switch. This happens parallel to the production by the old company.

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