One-off Costs
These are sometimes called tooling costs. There is no charge for these if the same PCB design is made again in the future.
For a manufacturer, these costs include:
- Loading the design files into their system
- Checking the PCB for any manufacturing problems and adjusting as neccessary (e.g. removing soldermask slivers)
For an assembler, these costs include:
- Loading the design files into their system. This is normally substantially higher than the similar manufacturing costs, as they have to load all of the components into their system
- Sourcing all of the required components (this may also fall under re-occurring costs)
- Manufacturing a soldermask stencil (typically laser cut from stainless steel)
Posted: April 28th, 2015 at 8:46 pm
Last Updated on: February 4th, 2016 at 11:55 am
I believe this is called “one-off”, not “one-of”.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Easy fix 🙂
Ty, Geoff