Doing a bit of general research:

What is the present status of hybrid manufacturing in the United States?

Is it alive and well?
Are most hybrid manufacturers in the U.S. or overseas?
Are the fabricators large or small?
Do most houses fire their own resistor inks and populate with SMT?
What percentage of assembly is done by wire bonding?
If I was looking for a contract house to handle a low volume job, please
contact me offline (<20K units per year)
If I was looking for a contract house to handle a high volume job, please
contact me offline (>1 million units/year)
If I was looking for a contract house to handle the intermediate volume,
please contact me offline (between 20K and 1 million units)

What is the general opinion of starting a production facility to fabricate
hybrid modules in the U.S. as opposed to overseas?


Thanks for you responses

Ed Holton
Manufacturing Engineer
Hella Electronics
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