Bioelectronics Corp (BIEL)

[China Cat Sunflower]

The assembly of the electronics and everything is done overseas in Asia. What they do in Frederick is simple manual operations of packaging etc. Actipatch is a simple device to manufacture.

Just going off a little experience - in order to make one million actipatches a month, you need to do about 50 parts a minute on a 2-shift working day, no weekends. This is really moving. At this point you would have more than one machine for sure but I am just putting some estimates to it.

New equipment lead time for something like this is 6-12 months, that includes qualifying the process. Just one machine that does everything including packaging and to run at 50 parts a minute (if it could be done reliably) is over a million USD.

Of course, this only considers a water faucet scenario where you go from nothing to max right away. That is not accurate as a ramp up to a million a month is just that - a ramp up.

But look at us talking about manufacturing capacity...Fun to think of these things because by the time they buy equipment like this our pps is a heck of a lot higher than it is now.

This topic is just fun to speculate. Manufacturing capacity will never be the bottle neck with BIEL. I have met Bill Monn a couple of times over the years at trade shows etc. I don't think he is a regular down there anymore but he was in charge of these topics.