PCB Manufacturers (with Assembly of Components, to aid with scaling up) and Enclosure Manufacturers

[brandonious]

First *real* post outside of the introduction forums. I'm working on a project that I think will be hugely beneficial to apartment building owners, homeowners, and maybe sometimes even renters, that purchase the physical product. I've built breadboard prototypes, and worked out the control systems for the device, and it's all functional.

I'm at the point where I am building my website for selling the device, about to start working through all the legalese of starting the company, and, most importantly, am looking at various suppliers for PCB and Enclosure manufacturing. I've been looking at 4pcb, but wanted to know - are there any more responsive, more modern (the 4pcb website is ANCIENT in design, and atrociously manual with email quotes, etc), and better reputed (I've seen sprinklings of bad reviews here and there) than them for PCBs? I want to keep the PCB manufacturing (and ASSEMBLY, in order to not have to either sink MY time into soldering components, or hire several people in the infancy of the business to do so... I'd rather be able to reliably source that into my supply costs *as I order* at the start, then maybe scale into employees doing that if it helps overhead over time) and enclosure manufacturing within the United States. Does anybody have any good recommendations in both fields? The device will be relatively simple on the PCB side (some relays, wiring, various connector ports - no intricate tiny CPUs, microcontrollers, or anything), and about palm-sized once contained in the enclosure that I'm CADing up.

Thanks! Would be even cooler if it was a fast-laner's business!

 

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