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Inside a Huge PCB Factory

Strange Parts · 3.7M views · 2018-06-12 · 26:49

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Overview

Strange Parts tours JLCPCB's large PCB factory in Huizhou, China, walking through the printed circuit board manufacturing process step by step. It shows the machinery, quality checks and scale behind cheap prototype boards.

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Recommended as the best look inside a modern PCB fab, cited in threads on hobby PCB vendors, manufacturing in China and automation.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2018–2026

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elihu · 2023-03 · Recommendation

This is very interesting: [VIDEO] It's a tour of JLCPCB's factory, where they go through all the PCB manufacturing steps. (They just cover the PBC itself, not the assembly service.)

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antoniuschan99 · 2021-01 · Recommendation

Strange parts has some cool inside look at the popular pcb manufacturing fabs such as pcbway and jlcpcb [VIDEO]

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ddeck · 2018-11 · Recommendation

Strange Parts[1] made a great factory tour video of the JLC facility in China for anyone that interested in such things: [VIDEO] [1] [LINK]

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