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| MiniBox Chassis |
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| Custom Chassis Design Costs |
- Linux-1U.net/Costs Costs to Make a Custom Chassis
- Costs of vendors, meeting, people, emails -- 90% majority of the costs
- Costs of drawings
- Costs of prototypes
- Costs of inventory, ordering, receiving
- Costs of assembly, testing, qa, qc
- Costs of management, shipping, invoicing, rma
- Costs of cardboard, foam, tape
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| Reducing the Costs of Sheet Metal Manufacturing |
- Modify the drawings one last time
- use flat cover - same for all variations
- use removable front panel for those wanting custom designed logo
- use removable front panel for those wanting slim cdrom or not
- use removable front panel for those wanting lcd or not
- each additional bracket adds $15 - $25 per bracket
- To Meet our pricing model, we must buy in large quantities
- Must be 100% certain we can sell at least half of the chassis we buy
- a minimum committment level
- Buying 10 metal units will be about $120ea ( $1,200 gamble )
- Buying 100 metal units will be about $60ea ( $6,000 gamble )
- Buying 500 metal units will be about $50ea ( $25,000 gamble )
- Buying 1,000 metal units from taiwan/china will be about $20-$30ea
- is the price savings sufficent to justify offshore manufacturing
- Additional Chassis Costs
- Than add the $15 brackets for the slim cdrom
- Than add the $15 brackets for the regular hard disks
- Than add costs of various screws
- Than add costs of drawing time, prototype, NRE
- Than add costs of front panel look-n-feel, pcb design and assembly
- Than add costs of power supply, led, switches
- Than add costs of cables, wires, tie wraps
- Than add costs of cardboard, foam, tape
- Additional costs
- inventory time, potential $$$ lost, risk return, email time
- marketing, sales, advertising
- people, insurance, taxes, vacations
- Office overhead, rents, phones, computers
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