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Building Your Next Big Idea for 2026

Turn Your Big Idea Into a Prototype

Have you been sitting on a great idea, waiting for the perfect moment to bring it to life? As the New Year approaches, many entrepreneurs start planning for growth, innovation, and new business opportunities. If 2026 is the year you want to finally turn your invention into a reality, you’re not alone—and you don’t have to do it by yourself. While creating a new product can seem overwhelming, there are experienced companies and manufacturing partners ready to help you through every stage of development.

pcb-prototypeOne of the most important steps in bringing any new electronic device to market is completing the prototype phase. A prototype doesn’t just prove that your idea can work; it becomes the foundation for improving your design, testing functionality, pitching investors, and preparing for manufacturing. At ACME PCB Assembly, we specialize in helping inventors, entrepreneurs, and start-ups build the printed circuit boards (PCBs) their products depend on.

If you’re unsure about the exact schematics or specifications needed for your PCB design, that’s completely normal. Many innovators come to us with only a concept. Our team guides you from the earliest planning stages through schematic design, PCB layout, and full board assembly. When it comes to the rest of your invention—housing, mechanical components, or product finishing—other vendors can step in to complete your final prototype. ACME’s goal is to ensure that the electronic heart of your device is built correctly, efficiently, and with the quality required for successful testing.

Before long, you’ll have a working prototype in hand—something you can show investors, demonstrate to potential partners, test in real environments, or use to prepare for production. ACME PCB Assembly serves as your reliable resource for prototype Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA). Our certified IPC trainer ensures that every prototype meets industry quality standards. We can assemble boards by hand for low-quantity builds ranging from a single unit up to 50 pieces, ideal for early testing phases.

When you’re ready to scale, ACME PCB Assembly offers smooth transition into higher-volume production. Our FUJI SMT pick-and-place line allows us to handle runs from 1-piece prototypes up to 10,000-piece production batches. Few PCB partners offer such flexibility, making ACME the ideal choice for both early-stage innovators and growing companies.

ACME provides a complete suite of PCB Assembly Services, including SMT, Through-Hole, BGA, rework, lead-free assembly, turnkey solutions, and more. We also offer additional manufacturing support such as Injection Molding and Metal Work & Finishing—giving clients access to an end-to-end approach when preparing their products for market.

We provide a complete suite of PCB Assembly Services, including rework and modification, BGA, SMT, Turnkey, Thru-Hole, Lead Free, and Prototype assembly, plus an extensive line of add-on services, such as Injection Molding and Metal Work & Finishing.  ACME PCB Assembly has been providing Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) and Printed Circuit Board (PCB) assembly for 27 years.

Ready to turn your idea into a prototype? Visit our PCB assembly service page and get started today:

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Wire Harness

ACME PCB Assembly Wire and Cable Harness Services

It is important to understand that a wire harness is different than a cable harness.  A wire is a single conductor, while cables are two or more wires that are insulated being wrapped in a larger jacket. These two technologies demand their own set of unique tools, fixtures, and machinery to help reduce production costs. Knowing exactly what type of product being used is crucial to perfectly create your designs.

Wire harnesses generally do not need much to work with and is generally an inexpensive and cost-efficient way for many people to solve their electrical needs. With a single machine, one can increase their production capabilities because of the relative simplicity of wires in general.

A wire harness is a method that incorporates several point-to-point cable assemblies together into one conclusive assembly.  They are generally held together using cable ties or some form of protective sleeve used to protect the wires or cables from environmental conditions like moisture, heat or friction, and to organize the different breakouts for easy routing through a system or box build.

What Can Wire Harnesses be Used For?

Though you might confuse a wire harness for a cable assembly, there is one main difference and that is a wire harnesses usually contains several ends or breakouts, running in different directions, serving multiple functions with multiple terminations on each breakout.

A custom wire harness can be used in durable goods like household appliances, in and around engines of all kinds – automobiles, buses, locomotives, trucks, and even planes.  Electronic equipment, construction machinery, industrial equipment, HVAC products all use wire harnesses as well.

Located in Carson, California, ACME PCB Assembly utilizes top of the line technology from Schleuniger to perfectly cut, strip, and process any wire or cable you need. After 27 plus years in the business, ACME PCB Assembly has the experience to be your contract manufacturer for cable & wire harness projects. As an IPC-A-610 certified assembler with a certified trainer in house, you can be rest assured the cables and wires that come out of ACME will exceed the standards.

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Made in CA

PCB Assembly: Domestic VS Foreign

Domestic PCB assembly houses are a much better alternative to foreign contract manufacturers. Domestic PCB assembly firms have a multitude of benefits.

• Key advantages include better quality assurance as well as the confidentiality of your intellectual property. Quality comes into question when outsourcing printed circuit board assembly as the firms located overseas may not have proper qualifications to handle your product. There is a growing problem of IPs being appropriated by non-legitimate organizations overseas, and one surefire way to minimize that risk is to find a trustworthy, reliable, and IPC A-610 certified company like ACME PCB Assembly to build your products.

• By outsourcing work overseas, one is typically trying to lower the cost of labor. However, lowering the cost of labor by outsourcing overseas can incur higher transportation costs. Outsourcing PCB assembly overseas is only viable in very few situations. A firm would need a product that has high volume runs with longer lead times and repeat jobs to even consider this method. Any other job, from prototyping to batch production, are better off done domestically as quality would remain the focus.

• Another advantage is that it would be significantly easier to communicate domestically as opposed to abroad. There are twenty-four time zones across the globe, and keeping track of which vendor or customer is in working hours could be a hassle to deal with. Language barriers are also an obstacle while outsourcing to businesses. Although many countries around the globe speak English, people with lower proficiencies could cause issues in communication and result in misunderstandings.

Call 310-715-1898 or email steve@acme-pcbassembly.com for a free quote.

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