Sending your design to a Chinese SMT assembly house should be straightforward. You export files from your EDA tool, attach them to an email, and wait for boards. Except it rarely works that smoothly. Missing files, inconsistent data, ambiguous comp...

High-mix low-volume, or HMLV, manufacturing has become a defining characteristic of modern industrial electronics. Unlike consumer products that may run millions of identical units, industrial clients often require dozens or hundreds of product var...