This is a great article about how to take control of the price of your PCBs. Do you take all this into consideration??
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/methods-printed-circuit-board-pricing-optimisation-belle-cullen?trk=hp-feed-article-title-share

This would be a great project to work on. Not only cool, but it makes a difference in lives of many people.

PCB Manufacturing Quality: Do You Get More Than You Pay For?

I like how this article demonstrates how all departments and disciplines need to work together throughout the whole design and development of a product.

Allen


http://www.designworldonline.com/pcb-manufacturing-quality-do-you-get-more-than-you-pay-for/?utm_source=EmailDirect.com&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=2012-10-17+DWD+Campaign#_

By Nolan Johnson, CAD/EDA Manager, Sunstone Circuits

How efficient is your PCB manufacturing designer? When a design team puts their first prototype onto the workbench for testing and verification, the team must simultaneously debug the following:

• The concepts in the schematic design

• The layout’s implementation of the concepts

• The behavior of any firmware/software onboard

• The ability of the chosen parts to interact as expected from the component datasheet documentation, functional specifications, and schematic-driven simulation data

• The fabricator’s ability to manufacture what the layout instructed them to build

IPC Names Mitchell President and CEO

http://pcdandf.com/cms/fabnews/8894-ipc-names-mitchell-president-and-ceo
.................IPC has appointed John W. Mitchell president and CEO, effective April 23.

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