We just had our first production run of boards for a new project done out in china because the price was just sooo good.

We did however have a fit when our pick and place contractor decided that they wanted to charge us nearly £20 more per board for mounting components than we expected, suffice to say, we told them to get stuffed!

We are now seriously looking into a small pick and place machine because it'd be easy to amortize the cost of it (and oven) over a longer period - plus it opens up the ability to mount BGA's in house which would be a massive benefit in development.

Nice looking work patrick!