A Message From MacroFab's CEO Related to COVID-19
As the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues across the US and multiple areas have issued shelter-in-place orders, we wanted to provide an update for what this means for MacroFab and our ability to continue to serve you. Our overriding priority is the safety of our staff, and our ability to deliver our services in a consistent and reliable way.
MacroFab serves thousands of customers and much of our business comes from Critical Infrastructure sectors detailed in the DHS CISA guidelines, designating us an essential business as defined by every state and county order we have reviewed. In Q1 our available factory network capacity has grown by 47%. These factories are distributed across US, Canada and Mexico, allowing us to withstand any localized disruption. We have been in contact with all of the factories in our network and they plan to continue operations without disruptions.
Our non-essential staff has transitioned to working from home and we have implemented strict social distancing and screening procedures in our HQ facilities, allowing us to continue to operate safely. MacroFab provides full health and sick leave benefits for all staff and we have encouraged our team to take care of themselves in this time of crisis.
The biggest impact on your orders will come in the form of longer than average lead times as we source components. For most new orders, bare PCB sourcing continues to be the largest contributor to lead times. Once the PCBs, active and mechanical components arrive at our facility in the US, our distributed manufacturing model allows us to tap into dynamic factory capacity to fulfill orders as fast as possible.
We expect lead times to ease back to normal as COVID-19 related restrictions ease. We will continue to update the lead times you see in the MacroFab platform with the latest information we have.
