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.

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

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.

Typical KZfaqrs: 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!

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.

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.

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 :)

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

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.

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.

Nice work Scotty! I very much appreciate the quality and time you've spent to put this together for all us KZfaq 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!

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

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

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!

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

Always look forward to watching your videos 👌🏻

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

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

The best PCBWay ad on youtube

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

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

One of the best PCB Factory Tour ever!

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

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 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!

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

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)

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.

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!

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

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

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

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) & KZfaqrs, 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.

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. 👍

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

This is amazing, please do more of this in future

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

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!

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

4:35 Loving the little old CRT here :)

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!!!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The best video, humanity on another level.......! Good work Scotty

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

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.

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.

Scotty, I lived in China for over a decade, working as a commissioning engineer, and passing thru Shenzhen quite a number of times, but never to the inner workings of the electronics hub for the planet. I speak a modest amount of mandarin so that's enjoyable for me too. Your enthusiasm is infectious! Geek level 10! Feichang hao! Xie Xie!

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 ^^

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.

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!

THAT WAS VERY COOL!!!! Thanks Scotty & PCBway!

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

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.

Dude...somewhere, the creator of how it's made just shed a tear of sheer appreciation

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

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.

PCBWay is soo coool omgggg. Love this

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.

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

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

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

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

Oh look, Mario's brother Luigi in a PCB factory in a nice 18 minute PCBWay commercial. It would be nice to also see the PCB designers, software coders, the true brains behind all these products, and and unicorns. ;)

I learn so much on this channel

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

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.

Glad to see all the machines are still running XP

Ok, you sold me on PCBWay! Now I just need a board to make,

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

Every time you say PCBWay I keep on imagining Perifractic saying "PCB WAAAAYYYYYY!" This was really cool to watch, and it's amazing what goes on at this factory. So cool that they're able to produce at small scales, too, considering all that goes on.

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.

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

Whoever edits your videos is a god. Top tier production, as always

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

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

This reminds me of How It's Made. Positively pornographic shots of amazing industrial processes. I love this!

I was really looking forward to the unicorns. Jokes aside. AWESOME video! Also, holy crap, that's gotta be one of the cleanest most well organized Chinese factories I've ever seen!

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.

I love your videos man, greetings from argentina!

Thank you PCBWay. Very much appreciated. Thank you Scotty and great production value. A+

Thank you! PCB Way 4 the win! Say hello to Mr Chen from me and tell him they do a great jobb.

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.

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

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

You will be more amazed when you see how those tiny grain of rice “IC” were made in Semiconductor industry. Insane especiallized equipment which can make precise bonding down to +/-3 um repeatability

Great job Scotty. This is how everyone needs to see what PCB factories is about. Not always the horror normal media show to the people when talking about Chinese electronic factories. Keep it up

Your videos like this should be part of every middle and high school curriculum....of technologically advanced countries.