Posts Tagged ‘segment displays’

What does the labor shortage have to do with M.O.Q.?

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

The labor shortage at the liquid crystal display factories is causing the factories to increase their MOQ. MOQ is short for Minimum Order Quantity; this is the minimum amount of LCD products that can be ordered at one time.

A service we offer to our customers is to order the MOQ for you and then spread out your deliveries over a 12 month period. One advantage of this is that we can bring in your displays early and then ship them out to you on your schedule.

Character LCD:
Character displays are also known as alphanumeric LCD displays or numeric LCD displays. These are the more standard type of an LCD display module. As a general rule the character display manufacturers ask for 500 liquid crystal displays per order.

These include 8 x 1 LCD Display, 8 x 2 LCD Display, 16 x 1 LCD Display, 16 x 2 LCD Display, 16 x 4 LCD Display, 20 x 2 LCD Display, 20 x 4 LCD Display, 24 x 2 LCD Display, 40 x 1 LCD Display, 40 x 2 LCD Display, 40 x 4 LCD

Graphic LCD:
Graphic displays are also known as monochrome LCD displays. As a general rule the graphic display manufacturers request a 500 MOQ. These include FSTN, STN and TN. The MOQ is the same for no backlight as it is for LED backlight and EL backlight.

Custom LCD:
It is not uncommon to have a large minimum order for a custom LCD display module that is a replacement LCD display or to replace a discontinued LCD monochrome display.

Segment LCD:
Segment displays are also known as static displays or glass displays. At this time the MOQ for most static/segment displays is 2,500. The factory will build as few as 1,000 at a time, but the LCD cost per display will increase.

These include all types of segment displays such as 7 (seven) segment LCD display, 14 (fourteen) segment LCD display, 16 (sixteen) segment LCD display

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What is all the fuss about FOB?

Friday, July 30th, 2010

FOB is short for Free On Board or Freight On Board. In other words, who pays the freight from the factory to you?

We offer three options.

  1. F.O.B Origin: This term means that the customer is responsible for the international and domestic shipping on the product from the origin (China, Taiwan or some other origination point) to their dock.
  2. F.O.B Ship point: This means that the customer is responsible for the shipping from our (Focus) warehouse in Mesa, AZ to their dock.
  3. F.O.B Destination: This means that Focus is responsible for all shipping costs from the manufacturer to the end customer’s dock.

So what is the best option?  At Focus Display Solutions we recommend option 2, FOB ship point. This allows the customer to ship from AZ to their location on either their UPS, Fed Ex account or on the focus UPS account.

Our character and static LCD display modules are not as large as TFT liquid crystal displays.

Segment displays (static displays or glass displays), 7 (seven) segment, 14 (fourteen) segment and 16 (sixteen) segments are smaller and less expensive to ship then Alphanumeric LCD displays (aka: Character LCD’s).

The smaller character displays such as 8×1 LCD display, 8×2 LCD display, 16×1 LCD display, 16×2 LCD display, 16×4 LCD display are less expensive to ship than the 20×2 LCD display, 20×4 LCD display, 24×2 LCD display, 40×1 LCD display, 40×2 LCD display, 40×4 LCD display.

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Everything You Wanted to Know about Custom LCD Design but were Afraid to Ask

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Well, maybe this is not the best title, but there are a few basics that are good to know before you move ahead on a custom LCD display.  This is true for all static, segment or glass displays such as 7 (seven), 14 (fourteen) and 16 (sixteen) segment displays. This is also true for all Character / numeric LCD modules.

Our goal is to recommend a standard display whenever possible; not a custom Liquid crystal display.  If this will not work, we are able to suggest alternatives.  Sometimes the customer needs a custom LCD with tooling to replace a module that has been discontinued.  Below are a few guidelines.

  1. If the customer pays for the tooling/ engineering (NRE), then the customer owns that LCD display. module In other words we cannot sell that display to any other customer without the permission of that customer.
  2. When the customer has approved the drawing of the display, we will then request samples. As a general rule, when the customer pays for the LCD tooling, we supply 5 samples at no cost.
  3. The cost of freight to bring in the custom lcd module samples is included in the tooling cost. This is for the first shipment only.
  4. The tooling fees for static, glass or segment displays are lower then for a character LCD module (alphanumeric LCD display module).
  5. The use of TN, STN or FSTN does not affect the tooling fee for the custom display, but this will affect the unit cost.

Here is a link showing the process for a custom display.

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