PCB Tech - Let "Internet +" thinking enter the PCB industry

The PCB industry occupies an extremely important position in the electronics industry chain, and huge production creates huge value every year. Especially in China, the PCB industry occupies half of the world. However, these brilliant achievements, with the development of the times and changes in various internal and external conditions, are facing challenges at all times. Many PCB companies lose money every year, and the PCB industry is undergoing fierce competition and difficult advances.

In the new era, what is blocking the development path of PCB enterprises?

In recent years, the country has paid more and more attention to environmental protection, and the requirements on enterprises have become more and more stringent. PCB companies must pay more for environmental protection requirements, leading to increased costs.

In addition, the price of raw materials continues to rise, and the cost of labor is also rising, which causes the production cost of PCB to continue to rise. Moreover, the appreciation of the renminbi and the rise of low-cost manufacturing in Southeast Asia have made the already fiercely competitive PCB industry even more smoke-filled.

So, how should the PCB industry respond to the changes in the new era?

With the rapid development of the mobile phone, electronics, and communication industries, it has also promoted the continuous growth and rapid growth of the PCB circuit board industry. People have more and more requirements for the number of layers, weight, precision, materials, colors, and reliability of components. Come higher.

However, due to fierce market price competition, the cost of PCB board materials is also on a rising trend, and more and more manufacturers are monopolizing the market with low prices in order to enhance their core competitiveness. However, behind these ultra-low prices are obtained by reducing material costs and process manufacturing costs, but devices are usually prone to cracks (cracks), scratches, (or scratches), and their precision, performance and other comprehensive factors have not reached the standard., Which seriously affects the solderability and reliability of the product.

Wage cut? Save raw materials? These savings are very limited, and the saving of raw materials is related to the quality of the PCB. As long as the quality fails once, customers will be lost, so this method is not feasible. Some companies consider cost issues and move to the Midwest to reduce labor costs. But in this way, other design, R&D, and logistics costs are increased, which is not cost-effective in the long run.

In fact, in the current Internet era, while there are challenges, it also brings new development opportunities to the PCB industry. The design, production, sales, logistics and other aspects of the PCB industry can bring new developments, and these changes may be better and more cost-effective than traditional methods. For example, in terms of design, there is no need to hire professional designers, just invite designers to design on the Internet. There are many designers and you can choose the one that suits the price. In this way, the cost of design is more cost-effective than hiring full-time personnel.

It can be seen that the Internet era has brought new development opportunities to the PCB industry. But this is a new thing after all. Many companies are still in a wait-and-see attitude. Some companies have begun to test the waters and have achieved good results. Companies should keep pace with the times, actively invest in the construction of the Internet economy, and create a cloud platform to provide creative design, hardware incubation, product acceleration and other hardware services to promote the new development of PCB and other hardware industries.