What is "panelized"?

I just read that boards are now panalized in four days, what does that mean specifically and how does it affect wait time?

Pardon the Newbie ignorance, but I’ve placed a couple of orders and the wait to get them is worse than anticipating Christmas :wink: !

Oh-- about what panalized is? I don’t care, just tell me how much faster I get my boards!

Mark

Panelized means that they’ve taken your part and combined it with other peoples’ parts to be sent off to be fab’d. They used to do this once a week, so if they’re doing it every 4 days now, that’s at least 3 days less to wait.

Hm, my order was also panelized in under 5 days (I never checked its status beforehand, so I can’t be exact). If they’re speeding up production, then that’s great.

By the way, are weekends included in the predicted production time (10-19 days)?