Standard PCB & PCBA
Electronics
Board fabrication and optional assembly for conventional rigid PCB builds.
- Payment:
- Official price after free review
- Review target:
- Within 24 hours on business days after you submit
Twelve technical services. One accountable order history.
Illuminious is a U.S. NPI engineering company. Twelve services cover boards and assembly, stencils, flexible heaters, PCB layout, mechatronic assemblies, 3D printing, CNC machining, sheet metal, project initiation, schematic design, and firmware development, all configured online. Engineered in San Francisco. Prototype builds, DFM and mass production in our own factory in Shenzhen. Upload your files, get a free engineering review, and pay only the official quote that review publishes.
Configure it online, or send the job to an engineer. Online, you get a live supplier price, a published tier, or an official quote prepared by a specialist within 24 hours on business days, depending on the service. Engineering review is free either way and comes before you pay.
How it works
Account before cart
Verify your email before the persistent configurator opens. Files, drafts, estimates, and payments have a known owner from the start.
Free engineering review
Submit the configured cart at no charge. A reviewer prices the scope or opens a documented question, file correction, or production-file approval.
Official quote, then payment
Review publishes an itemized quote with lead time and a validity window. Accepting it opens payment, and the checkout snapshot preserves the inputs, assumptions, and disclosures.
Configure hardware work, upload private source files, get a free engineering review, and keep quotes, price revisions, approvals, production, and support in one authenticated project.
An engineer reviews every order. Engineering review is free and comes before payment. Payment does not authorize production.
Which service should you order from?
Each route uses its own file types, estimating factors, review checklist, and approval gates while keeping the customer account, cart, payment, and project history consistent.
Unsure which route fits? Ask engineering before uploading confidential files.
Advanced PCB & PCBA
Electronics
Engineer-reviewed HDI, RF, high-layer-count, power, and complex assembly builds.
- Payment:
- Official price after free review
- Review target:
- Within 24 hours on business days after you submit
SMT Stencil
Electronics
Framed and frameless laser-cut stencils with configurable foil and aperture treatment.
- Payment:
- Official price after free review
- Review target:
- Within 24 hours on business days after you submit
Flexible Heater
Electronics
Custom polyimide or silicone heater circuits designed around electrical and thermal requirements.
- Payment:
- Official price after free review
- Review target:
- Within 24 hours on business days after you submit
Custom Mechatronic Parts & Assemblies
Engineering
Custom sourced or fabricated mechanisms, electromechanical parts, and tested subassemblies.
- Payment:
- Official price after free review
- Review target:
- Within 24 hours on business days after you submit
3D Printing
Mechanical
Polymer and metal additive manufacturing with configurable process, material, finish, and inspection.
- Payment:
- Official price after free review
- Review target:
- Within 24 hours on business days after you submit
CNC Machining
Mechanical
Precision milling, turning, and mill-turn manufacturing with controlled finish and inspection.
- Payment:
- Official price after free review
- Review target:
- Within 24 hours on business days after you submit
PCB Layout
Engineering
New board layout or controlled layout modification from schematics and technical constraints.
- Payment:
- Official price after free review
- Review target:
- Within two business days after you submit
Sheet Metal Fabrication
Mechanical
Laser-cut, bent, welded, finished, and assembled sheet-metal parts and enclosures.
- Payment:
- Official price after free review
- Review target:
- Within 24 hours on business days after you submit
Project Initiation
Engineering
Turning a concept into a feasibility assessment, component selection, and BOM cost estimate.
- Payment:
- Official price after free review
- Review target:
- Within two business days after you submit
Schematic Design
Engineering
Engineering functional, stable circuit schematics in Altium Designer.
- Payment:
- Official price after free review
- Review target:
- Within two business days after you submit
Firmware Development
Engineering
Embedded software from bare-metal MCU logic to Linux/Android SoC.
- Payment:
- Official price after free review
- Review target:
- Within two business days after you submit
What does each service produce?
| Service | Category | What you receive | Review target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard PCB & PCBA | Electronics | Fabricated boards, assembled boards, test records, and linked stencil when selected. | Within 24 hours on business days after you submit |
| Advanced PCB & PCBA | Electronics | Reviewed stack-up, controlled fabrication package, advanced boards, and optional assembly. | Within 24 hours on business days after you submit |
| SMT Stencil | Electronics | Production stencil with reviewed aperture source, finish, frame, and labeling. | Within 24 hours on business days after you submit |
| Flexible Heater | Electronics | Reviewed heater circuit, integrated leads/sensors, resistance test, and production package. | Within 24 hours on business days after you submit |
| Custom Mechatronic Parts & Assemblies | Engineering | Reviewed sourcing/fabrication plan, assembly/test scope, prototype, or production subassembly. | Within 24 hours on business days after you submit |
| 3D Printing | Mechanical | Printed parts, secondary operations, inspection documents, and protected model history. | Within 24 hours on business days after you submit |
| CNC Machining | Mechanical | Machined parts, documented finish, optional inspection reports, and material certification. | Within 24 hours on business days after you submit |
| PCB Layout | Engineering | EDA source, Gerbers, BOM/CPL, drawings, 3D outputs, and approval milestones as scoped. | Within two business days after you submit |
| Sheet Metal Fabrication | Mechanical | Fabricated parts, installed hardware, controlled finish, inspection, and protected drawing history. | Within 24 hours on business days after you submit |
| Project Initiation | Engineering | Reviewed feasibility assessment, major component selections, and a BOM cost estimate at your chosen tier. | Within two business days after you submit |
| Schematic Design | Engineering | Engineer-reviewed circuit schematics with simulation, IPC compliance checks, and outputs at your chosen tier. | Within two business days after you submit |
| Firmware Development | Engineering | Reviewed embedded firmware built to your chosen tier, delivered as binaries. | Within two business days after you submit |
Detail pages for a single process, material, or ordering context.
Each page states the capability bounds, what drives the estimate, and what engineering checks — then opens the configurator with that configuration already selected.
Mechatronic Parts
No topic pages: this route is scoped case by case in engineering review rather than from a published catalog.
Project Initiation
No topic pages: this route is scoped case by case in engineering review rather than from a published catalog.
Schematic Design
No topic pages: this route is scoped case by case in engineering review rather than from a published catalog.
Firmware Development
No topic pages: this route is scoped case by case in engineering review rather than from a published catalog.
What happens if review changes the price?
The system preserves the estimate you paid. Engineering changes create a new commercial revision with an explanation, line-item difference, and explicit customer decision.
- No change: review approves the paid estimate.
- Increase: customer accepts and pays only the itemized difference.
- Decrease: finance authorizes a partial refund against the original payment.
- Cannot fulfill: the order is canceled and the applicable refund is recorded.
Which lead time fits your order?
- Economy lead time
- A longer target lead time than Standard, for work that is not on a deadline. Takes a discount line off the price, never below the service minimum, shown before you commit.
- Standard lead time
- The lead-time range quoted for your configuration, counted from approved files. No schedule charge. It is the price you were quoted.
- Express lead time
- Shortens the standard range where the process and the queue allow it. Adds an expedite line, priced on your own configuration and shown before you commit.
How does ordering online actually work?
Do I need an account to get a price?
Yes. The configurator is account-bound, because every price — a live supplier price, a published fixed tier, or an official quote prepared by a specialist within 24 hours on business days — is tied to the files, revisions and assumptions it was built from, and those need an owner from the first upload. If you want to see the shape of the answer before making an account, the sample page shows what each line of a PCB quote covers.
Is engineering review really free?
Yes. Submitting a configured cart for review costs nothing, takes no payment method, and holds no deposit. Engineering checks the files, specifications, quantities and options you supplied, and may ask questions or request corrected files before pricing. Free reviews are limited per account over a rolling period so the queue stays usable.
What happens if review changes the price?
The free engineering review comes first. Depending on the service you see a live supplier price, a published fixed price, or a price from a specialist within 24 hours on business days, and nothing is charged when you submit. After the review we publish an official quote with an itemized total, lead time and a validity window, and that is the amount you are asked to pay. Accepting the official quote opens payment rather than charging you. If a later correction changes scope or price, you see an itemized revision and can approve, question or decline it. We never silently charge an increase.
Which service should I choose if my job spans two of them?
Start with the service that controls the deliverable — the one whose process decides what you actually receive. A board with a stencil is a board order with the stencil attached; an enclosure with machined inserts is a sheet-metal order. Where the split is genuinely unclear, the outlined path reaches an engineer who will say which route prices it correctly, and that costs nothing either.
How are my files protected?
Your technical files are stored in private project storage and accessed through short-lived authenticated links. Files, prices, replacements and approvals stay tied to your account and keep their revision history.
Choose a service, verify your email, and keep the order history intact from the first upload.
- An engineer runs a free engineering review of your files, and nothing is charged when you submit.
- You see the findings first.
- We publish the official quote with an itemized total, lead time and validity window.
- You accept the official quote, and only then does payment open.