Mass prodution costs?

[wannaBinventor]

I'm just wondering what it normally costs to have thousands/hundreds of thousands of PCBs made.

I'm sure it depends on a multitude of factors, but lets say I had about a 1.5" x 2.5" board that I wanted mass produced. How much would it cost per unit to get those done? Are we talking 15 cents a board, 2 dollars, what?

Then I'm also wondering what it costs to have the boards soldered up with all the components --- say a PIC, couple other ICs, some connectors, plus 25-30 diodes and passives. What does that kind of service (automated process I'm sure) normally run per unit if you were doing say, 100 thousand units?

Thanks for the info!

 

[ronv]

Probably about $1.50 assembled and tested. We were doing a couple million disk drives a month with some pretty exotic components for $10.

 

[ella]

The PCB cost depends not only on square but also a number of layers.
Two layers PCB with cost you less then $1
Assembling is going per pad.

BTW you should consider production test and chip programming as well. It is paid per hour. About $50. Let's say if testing your assembled PCB takes 1min it will cost you $50/60

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[Ubergeek63]

SMT $0.05 per component placement
component costs (+$0.50 per square inch of double sided) *1.3
plus some labor
for 1K qty ... you don't save a lot past that as the curve has leveled off to a very low grade ramp

we do one for under $45 @ 50pcs that is about 6" SQ, 7 ICs, 23 passives, and an LCD