Design PCBAs For Power Safety: Dealing with High Voltages
Design for power safety is important. But as companies strive to reduce and or eliminate overhead expenses of product design, engineers will need to…
MacroFab Useless Design Contest - Sponsored by Mouser
Welcome to the MacroFab “Useless Machine” Challenge, sponsored by Mouser Electronics. The contest is all about creating the most useless machine – we…
Why Did You Get Fired By Your Electronics CM?
Identifying long-term contract manufacturing partners for your PCB fabrication and assembly needs has the potential to be challenging. In some cases,…
How to Choose a Contract Manufacturer
Electronics manufacturing spans many industries including aerospace, automotive, consumer electronics, and medical. Each industry and/or project has…
Faster Lead Times, More Elastic Factory Capacity Announced
Great news, we have lowered lead times on all of our orders. Huge increases in factory capacity and process efficiency mean that you will get your…
Chinese Tariffs Impact Update: May 13th, 2019
This is a follow up on last years article Decoding Tariff Impacts on US Electronics Manufacturing that covered the newly changed Chinese Import…
Quarterly Supply Chain Update: Q2 2019
This is an update for the previous article Component Market Shortages: Passives that MacroFab reported on in February 2018. No Relief for Large…
Myth vs. Fact about PCB Assembly
When examining the reasons to use a new contract manufacturer (CM) for assembling your next PCBA, there can be several internal debates about the…
MacroFab Announcement – 44% Price Reduction On Production PCBs
Good News – we are reducing prices on PCBs for production orders by an average of 44%. This change is effective immediately on factory.macrofab.com.…
High-Speed Routing Design: Tips for Engineers
“High-speed routing” is an abbreviated description of routing copper traces on a printed circuit board in ways that minimize the undesirable…
Solving Procurement Challenges for Your PCB Assembly
Procurement and manufacturing challenges change as printed circuit boards transition from the engineering development and prototyping phase to the…
Via in Pad PCB Design
Via in pad is the design practice of placing a via in the copper landing pad of a component. Compared to standard PCB via routing, via in pad allows…