While feeling the shared pain of costly and slow PCB Manufacturing process. Which also makes the hardware creativity and education much costly and slow. I was trying to figure out how can we decrease the cost of PCB manufacturing, get it made quickly and still maintain the level of quality we currently get. I came across the concept of using UV laser for Board cutting boards and drilling board plus using Masked SLA type of process for UV expose.
- To me, this seems like a revolutionary setup.
- You can make every board different, which makes enables mass customization
- Very less wear outs as there are no drill bits to die
- Automation can be a much higher decreasing need for costly labour and faster lead time
- Fewer machines and setup costs which makes the footprint of the plant smaller
- Above 2 points can make PCB Manufacturing feasible outside china as well
- Maybe we can mitigate the setup cost of PCB and bring down the cost of proto PCBs to the cost of PCB manufactured at scale
All these seem that for at least 2-layer rigid or flexible PCB, a lot of initial costs can be mitigated and prototype PCB manufacturing cost can be decreased.
So what am I missing? What are the technical or commercial challenges you see in making with this way of manufacturing a PCB?
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