#699 – CircuitHub, 12 Years Later with Andrew Seddon
Andrew Seddon, founder and CEO of CircuitHub, joins Chris to talk about how CircuitHub has changed over the past 12 years as a startup and how they are continuing to push the boundaries of high mix domestic electronics manufacturing.
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
August 1, 20251h 23m
Show Notes
Welcome Back, Andrew Seddon! Founder and CEO of CircuitHub.
- Andrew was first on episode 131 of The Amp Hour
- CircuitHub has a partnership with Worthington Assembly
- Worthington and CircuitHub host the Pick Place Podcast
- Mimicing silicon manufacturing
- Common parts library
- Setting the factory up to have only 50k SKUs in house for speed of loading / attrition
- Driving people to 2000 parts was the original intent, but didn’t hit the mark
- Level of production needs to be high
- Many parts need to work in conjunction
- Reflow
- PnP
- Throughhole
- Selective soldering
- Inspection
- Need to solve for the whole setup. Making smt 10x better doesn’t make overall 10x better
- Starlink manufcaturing localy
- PCB fabs in the US, 50 left, getting rolled up under Private Equity (as are things like machine shops)
- AI with VCs
- How it impacts the electronics industries
- KiCad
- More AI stuff
- Automation on checking
- Still humans involved
- PDKs for chip companies
- File checking / JLC
- Types of customers
- 10 largest companies on the planets
- It’s individuals who order and try it out, that often becomes a repeat business thing
- Customers / types of boards / size of orders
- More startups who also want production
- Future serving lower cost areas
- Proto service 2-4 layer black soldermask (unlisted)
- See the CircuitHub capabilities
- Going high volume
- People making weekly or monthly units and spreading it out
- Spinning up custom in-house high volume
- Flattenting the price curve
- Tariffs
- New customers approaching them because of it
- Can consumer be done in the US?