With all the space will you be doing everything at Home pin central or will circuit board and cabinet printing be done at other companies?
We certainly have the space to do everything and that is the longer term plan. Initially however cabinets (woodwork) will be made by an outside CNC firm as will blank PCBs although one of the first things I am seting up is a PCB assembly line.
My reasoning here is that almost everyone has gone to surface mount using pick and place machines and it is next to impossible to have boards made using through hole parts these days. I feel it is better to have boards made using through hole for ease of repair. Some parts like the 100 pin micro will have to be S/M as they just are not made in any other pacage BUT everything else we can assemble in house.
This also allows me to expand the range of aftermarket boards I make and get the cost of them down. Also China id very central so it is a lot cheaper and faster to ship boards all over the world direclt from PRC.
I also intend to set up our own screen printing shop complete with laser cutters for things like plastics etc. I have had pinball plastics screen printed before with mixed results so better to do them ourselves.
