I remember the first time I handed off a PCB project without thinking hard enough about the assembly process. The board came back looking fine. Then we started testing. Footprint mismatch on a critical power IC. Wrong polarity on an electrolytic cap. Two components missing entirely. Three weeks of schedule gone. The factory had done exactly what we asked them to do. The problem was what we asked for.That experience taught me something most engineering programs never cover. The assembly model you choose matters as much as the circuit design itself. And turnkey PCB assembly is one of those decisions that gets made too casually, too often.What Turnkey PCB Assembly Actually Means
The word turnkey gets used loosely in manufacturing. In PCB assembly it ha ...
