Joe,
The bulk of my work is flex circuit design and I do work for a couple flex
shops as well as OEM's. On the west coast you may want to look a Parlex
www.parlex.com
Contact:
Glen Loo
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408)-441-8713

They have a location in San Jose as well as a couple on the east coast and
China.

Another place would be Flex Interconnect Technologies
http://www.fit4flex.com/
Contact:
Chetan Shah
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(408) 918-3615

My preferred flex supplier is Samtec www.samtec.com but I do not believe
they have rigid flex capability yet. They have partnered with FIT (above) to
provide that capability. I can get you some names there as well if you can't
find them on the web. 

I think you will find that once your volumes go up many of the suppliers
will shift production off shore. I know Parlex can provide proto's from
their plant in Chine within a couple weeks so you can avoid the situation of
getting the initial parts from one location, then volume production from
another. 

The complexity of your designs (min line width, # of layers, etc) will also
play a large part in finding a source. 

Hope this helps. Let me know if you need anything else. 


Scott D. Riley
Technical Design Service
607-658-9322 - Office
607-785-1696 - FAX
www.techdesignservice.com

 

 



-----Original Message-----
From: DesignerCouncil [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joseph
Matthews
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:04 PM
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Subject: [DC] Large runs - Flex


Greetings folks,

Looking for the names of some companies (ideally on the west coast) that can
do large runs of a mix of flex & rigid boards, i.e. >10K pieces for a
project I'm about to finish.  Any names would be helpful.  Also, I'd hope
someone might be able to share why they think they are good (if possible).

Thanks,

Joe


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