Supper excited that Scotty came to our factory to shoot such a detailed and informative video, which not only can satisfy people's curiosity about PCB assembly process, but is also very entertaining to watch. It owes to the earnest working attitude and unique sense of humor of Strangeparts. Really enjoy watching it, as an audience. Thank you Scotty for making this video and thank you all the PCBWayers for sharing your love here :)

Thank you PCBway for allowing this video and thank you scotty for taking the time to visit the factory.

I did a high voltage board with PCBway. They had no problem with the many isolation slots cut into the board and didn't even charge extra. That's quite unusual.

Being 64, its amazing how far electronics has come in only 50 years.

Typical UKpostsrs: sponsored by Skillshare and Audible. Strange Parts: sponsored by a PCB assembly company. Yeah, that's par for the course for the channel. Great video!

this type of your videos are the best. I imagine this takes quite a lot more effort than usual, but please do moar

You are personalising the process here, Scotty. This should have been done years ago. Giving us more stories of the people involved in the process is a fantastic way to connect and be social with the people involved in building electronics. Well done sir. Well done :)

Ive been a HW Design Engineer since 1982, very different back then. This video is spot on. Watch for nostalgia reasons. It truly is amazing the mfg process of getting such tiny components or 1000 pin BGA's soldered correctly to the board. A near miracle that its done and repeated with 100% accuracy thousands fo times. As far as the people who do hand assembly, they are equally impressive. Soldering tiny little pins spaced a few thousands of an inch from each other and doing fast and accurately is an amazing talent. Where will we be 10 or 20 more years from now, we will be looking at this being and "old time" process.

Building bridges and educating us all. In contentious times you are bringing in China’s Manufacturing Might without bias, or controversy. Be your upbeat mood invite you on other places. You should have a Cable TV Chanel dude.

Always look forward to watching your videos 👌🏻

That’s PCBWay? That’s awesome. Used them for a project in the past and was very impressed with the results. Thanks for the tour-very cool!

Huge respect for such a detailed explanation of the process. Priceless!

Great video. This is exactly the type of content I subscribed for.

I absolutely love this factory tour, its hard to find someone on UKposts that makes videos with this high quality and love :-)

I build PCBs for work so seeing this from an outside perspective is pretty cool. Also that factory looks crazy clean and tidy! You gained a new subscriber guys! Well done.

your genuine enthusiasm takes something that is interesting and makes it thoroughly enjoyable as well

Scotty: Hey guys I need to do a tombstone effect. Factory: Wah????

We rely upon what these factories turn out every day, we purchase it for incredibly cheap prices - Getting insight like this, just makes me appreciate more and more what an awesome age we live in.

Nice work Scotty! I very much appreciate the quality and time you've spent to put this together for all us UKposts watchers! It's rare that a documentary host understands the other language when there's the need to have a conversation/explanation. Keep it up buddy!

I have previously worked on SMT line for VIVO thanks for reminding me my first job as a reflow technician ...

I use PCBWay for all my boards. They’re always perfect. Great company. Glad to see them here.

Reminded me of when I worked at Control Techniques ltd back in 1989. We used the manufacturing process, maybe the speeds of pick and place have increased and the methods use to inspect solder joints have changed a little. But on the whole pcb manufacturer hasn't changed a lot in all these years. I remember the staff placing through components by hand we used to call it "the add on section". I worked in the test and repair section where we had custom made machines (in house" ) that would power up and test functionality of each circuit board. I started out testing and repairing their "INBP Boards". Then moved to repairing the boards that had failed inspection from one of the multi million pound machines that was capable of testing many types of board. This video gave me a good trip down memory lane, and it was fascinating to see that some tech still hasn't changed in all those years.

I’ve always loved the engineering and advancements that constantly go into pick and place machines. Multi-headed PNPs are especially interesting.

I am so thrilled to find out how these components are inserted into the pcbs. Thank you so much for this great video!

I work at a similar factory here in Portugal, we provide for the auto industry, some of our machines can place as much as 140k components an hour! Awesome video!

Wow! I am a customer of PCBWay. I used their assembly services and the result is really good. So nice to see inside of the factory. Thanks so much!

Awesome, love plant tours and this one was awesome. Great work! And how nice are the people at PCBWay!

Great video and excellent commentary. I work in the industry and felt like everything was explained in a very understandable way for even the layman to understand!

Thanks PCBway for letting us see this! I love how excited Scotty is to show this off to us. He is just as excited as we would be.

I love these factory tours. Now I know why modern stuff is so difficult to repair.

Very well done tour. Reminds me documentary from big TV stations. So far at least for me the best one with the most interesting technology that I have not seen anywhere else.

Very educational! More people should watch such kind of videos to appreciate how complex electronics are

Perfect! This video is a Masterpiece! Scotty, you have made a flawless, specific, detailed, and correct video of the latest PCB assembly processes. There are many other videos out there, mostly from CMs (Contract Manufacturers) & UKpostsrs, but they not well done, poorly shot, poorly lit, disorganized, incomplete, factually wrong, incomprehensible, etc., etc. This video has so many little important details, that it should be watched 2 or 3 times to fully understand them all. Watching this and your previous video of how bare PCBs are made, provides a thorough education and insight of how PCBAs (PCB Assemblies, i.e. boards with the parts soldered on) are built and tested. These two videos should be required viewing by every Electrical Engineer and student (AS, BS,MS & PhD). Especially from the last 20 years, most of whom have very little knowledge or understanding of how physical electronics products are made. Every “maker” and “doer”, especially on Kickstarter, should be compelled to watch this at least 10 times, take notes and pass a test! Thank you and PCB Way for all the time and work for planning, writing, shooting and editing this video. Your well recorded, clear voice and enunciating diction, makes this available and useful for all, including ESL foreign language native speakers. Missing are: like, um, you know, um, searching for words, "Chinglish", explaining to your factory host what they are looking at (host = anyone there who speaks a little English). FYI: I am an Electrical Engineer, who over the last 45 years, has designed and made hundreds of products and PCBAs, designed & built several PTH (Plated Through-Hole) and SMT assembly lines in several facilities and countries, and site inspected scores of electronic manufacturing plants in numerous countries. TEN THUMBS UP! (that’s all I’ve got) P.S. Thank you for helping me find “the way”. PCBWay! I have a few projects and now I am confident in having PCBWay make them.

Did you see the machine that scrubs the goddamn numbers off the chips ???

One of the best PCB Factory Tour ever!

I really love his enthusiasm, I enjoyed all the explanation. It´s so much better than at college. Thank you!!

This is amazing, please do more of this in future

Hands down the best electronics channel on UKposts, TV or any platform. Amazing tour!!!!

That was AWESOME. I didn't expect such detailed and well explained video on such a matter. It also amazes me the way that they do their QA, i have certainly changed my mind on chinese products long ago but this was well beyond anything i've known before. Great job Scotty and team!!!

Superb video, great advert! Have made a note of the company - I am developing some boards for a 3D-printer design. PCBway looks like the quality company I am looking for. Thank you. 👍

I've seen some factory tours on YT but yours stand out because of the enthusiasm you show. Keep up the great vids. I look forward to seeing more.

The amount of precision is so cool. Thanks for another awesome video Scotty!!!

I follow your channel for more then a year, and I so happy that you are adding subtitles for my language portuguese on your videos! Thank you very much!

Excellent video, Scotty! It's easy to tell when you're in your comfort zone back in Shenzhen. You look so at ease interacting with the team! And your emotion and excitement definitely come through the camera. Thanks so much for the tour. Super high-quality a/v content as always.

Oh my goodness... This is incredible. Great job explaining!! The quality on your videos get better and better. Thank you. Really enjoyed this tour.

The best and most informative electronics manufacturing factory tour I've ever seen

Really appreciate you speaking to us with the staff in English. I know some of the other videos you would chat in Chinese, but this is really easy to follow. Thanks to Mr. Chen for playing along as you do the English dialog.

Already visited huge tech companies assembly lines, but this thing is much more beautiful because, as you said, it has some kind of art in it.

The production quality of these videos keep improving every time you upload! Great job Scotty!

Loved this video partly because I have done most of things at my workplace myself. Pick and place machine is awesome(yet a bit terrifying). We have used PCBway mainly for fabrication but it's good to know their CM services. Thanks for making this video.

I will add also, PCBWay's technical sales team is excellent! Back when I did my first ever board with them (a custom arduino-like device based around a SAMD micro-controller), they went out of their way to help me get my design in the correct format for production (AutoDesk Eagle missed one of the files they needed in its default export, and one of the components didn't have polarity indicated properly in the output files, IIRC). They were able to get me through the process to deliver a board that was exactly to what I had intended in my design.

Came by to watch this again, never gets old. I'm going to check out the assembly service for my next board.

In reference to tombstoning. It mainly happens when your fixture inside your pick and place machine is loose, or the stand offs (board supports) aren’t adjusted correctly. Causing the components to bounce during placement. Mostly what happens is if the component is not equally anchored on both sides, it is drawn to the upright position from the tension of the solidifying solder paste.

Scotty your vids are a+. YT needs more quality material like this

This is awesome content. Production quality looks like it's going up too. Congrats and can't wait to see more stuff from Strange Parts!

Thanks a lot man. Your videos are very interesting and your positive attitude and smile makes them more enjoyable.

4:35 Loving the little old CRT here :)

Love these behind the scenes Toure's. And fyi for anyone who owns a factory like this. This kind of access is like a 20 minute ad for your company seen by millions of people. I'm personally working on a project and will be using serveral of the companies stranger parts has interviewed as I've been impressed with the factory them selfs.

Really enjoyed this. I use pcbway for the pcb’s I build on my DIY pick and place machine, always been very helpful, they are on of the few pcb manufacturers that will accept a eagle cad file, no need to generate the gerber files. I can only do 300 parts on hour on my PnP, but beats hand placing them. I’m going to build a bed of nails to test my system, looks like old 3D printer parts will be handy.

An absolutely amazing video. It's fascinating to see how these things are done.

I once ordered some boards on PCBway and it's so cool to see how there where made, thanks for bringing us this mini-documental ^^

I used to work for an American PCB assembly company couple of years back and they have this process prior to the functionality testing called in circuit test and flying probe test ( basically a giant automated multimeter) to check the components values/pcb traces/shorts/open defects that can't be captured by the aoi/xray machines.

Scotty, this video is incredible. The quality of your content increases with every new video!

Really cool video Scotty. This is the kind of stuff you never get to see otherwise. Thank you for your curiosity

My company literally just ordered like 50 boards from them this last week. They do good work. and its crazy cuz even with tariff stuff going on its STILL cheaper by alot.

Great video as always. Your production gets better and better. Keep up the awesome work!

Incredible video, congrats! It was a real joy to my eyes and especially to my brain, thank you so much!

I think you are the happiest geek in the world, because you got to see all these cool robots and PCBs and how it's manufactured. I love your videos and I wish you luck, (greeting from jealous Arabic geek)

You made my evening by uploading this video, your videos have always been inspiring for me

youtube recommended me your channel, they're so interesting. Great work!

Awesome video Scotty! the Production value turned at 11 with this one! Looking forward to the next one!

Keep it up please, more of the electronic factory tours.

I use PCBWay for all my PCBs, really cool to see inside their factory. I've never tried assembly though...

Dude!!! Wow. I think you went full on geek overload in there. Also please please please do a carbon fiber bike factory tour.

I so enjoy watching these videos :) thank you for your continued hard work and contributions.

love the video this is actually gonna help me with one of my school assignments. keep the high-quality content coming

PCBWay is soo coool omgggg. Love this

Very good. The little machine with the 3 pins is ICT In Circuit Test. There is an important test: JTAG which can be programmed to test pin by pin of the whole PCB. Thank you.

What a great video and cool factory! Love your work Strange Parts. Always good content and the delivery is fantastic.

Love watching this kind of stuff and seeing how the various products are made. Good stuff bud

Great video, please show more cool tech stuff from China !!! Very well done!!! Thanks

I just was in a PCB assembly factory in Switzerland last week with my electrical engineering class. This video was very intresting to see the diffrences. Generaly, it's pretty much the same procss. I think the most obvious diffrence was that in the swiss factory there was even more automation going on and less manual labor. This makes sense as salaries in Switzerland probably are an order of magnitude higher. Another big diffrence is that the swiss factory seems to be a really focused of customer support and has quite a few engineers helping the customer to improve the design of their bord for easier assembly, testing and better functionality. They added a lot of testpads on all boards to later test all the components after they have been soldered in. To do this they had two methods: For boards in large quantities the custom build a testrig where you can put a board in. It has one of those spring loaded pins for every test pad. Every one is conected to a machine with hundrets of inputs. They then program the machine whitch pins it has to measure against each other and within what margins the result should be. If there is a microcontroller on the board they can also program in that way.The way cooler method is what they use for boards in smaller quantities. They have a robot with "flying probes". Basically a robot with like eight small probes that they can automatically stick on any place on the board and then measure a component. This happens with a crazy speed, the probes are really flying around. But it can easily take a couple of minutes for one board to be tested.

Saw a pick place machine demo at a musuem in Atlanta. Absolutely amazing how it was moving such a heavy mass with such precision.

Well, i'm currently designing/prototyping a bunch of stuff and this video is definitely useful. Getting it made on a small/large scale now requires very little research. Thanks !

Awesome 👌👍👏👌 keep Best factory tour ever ... Keep it up buddy ... You make high quality videos

Just finished the workday which included another order from pcbway. Jumped on youtube for some chill time and I get to see the plant that I ordered from. Normally I just get bare pcbs from them but I have ordered hundreds of loaded SMD. Have always had excellent service and pretty sure that they run 24/7. Great video but hated the use of soder rather than solder which most of the world uses.

The quality of your content continues to get better and better. This was awesome!!

I have seen this before and I enjoy seeing how PCB's are manufactured. It's all cool stuff.

I learn so much on this channel

Whoa! Clicked faster than lightning. Another beautiful informative video 👏👍

It takes a lot of work to setup those lines for a specific board, the fact that they are willing to do all that even for a single board is awesome.

Your explained is absolutely awesome

PCBway is an awesome company. Recommended, also for small batch production.

2:47 when someone explains science to me and I wanna look professional.

I have used PCBWay for some boards and they were nicely made, flawless, and inexpensive, arriving in less than a week. I will happily use them again.

I don’t share much on Facebook but this went to a lot of people. Excellent video.

I already use PCBWay for PCBs (good prices, options, quality and fast), so it's cool to see their other capabilities. I think assembly is the fun part, but getting the BGA/CSP parts pre-loaded might open up some part options I wouldn't normally consider.

I love your videos man, greetings from argentina!

Loved it. This is why I love your channel/content, you explain and describe things so clearly. Awesome :)

I won my final year project by doing the same kinda line tracking robot. You like a kid in candy store - so excited. Keep coming with more factory visits. Love from India.