Ernst & Young LLP is pleased to announce the finalists for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® award in the Rocky Mountain region.  This group of outstanding entrepreneurs was selected by an independent judging panel made up of regional business, academic and community leaders.

 

 

Layoffs, bankruptcies, plummeting stock prices and a credit crisis have dominated the headlines, but not everyone is mired in an economic slump. Some local employers in fields such as renewable energy, private education, health care, aerospace and engineering are actually hanging help- wanted signs.

 

Advanced Assembly, a provider of circuit-board assembly services in Aurora, has doubled its staff to about 40 this year, hiring people in engineering, sales and production, said Lawrence Davis, the company's founder."You take the economy seriously, of course, but we're in a niche I feel pretty comfortable forecasting" continued growth for in the coming year, he said.

 

 

Advanced Assembly featured as a successful company that is expanding and hiring in Colorado.

 

 

Advanced Assembly in Denver works in a tight niche, providing precision printed circuit-board assembly services, usually for prototypes as engineers seek to perfect a product. What differentiates the company is that it welcomes small orders — and CEO Lawrence Davis also claims superior customer service.

His competitors prefer to deal only with much larger orders, and keep it impersonal with their clients, Davis says. But his company will take the small orders in a field that’s using ever-shrinking surface-mount technology parts on the boards — and assemble them electronically.  “In the prototype world, you’re working with engineers; there’s tons of interaction,” Davis says. “These engineers, who used to be able to sit there with the Radio Shack soldering wire, say, ‘I need help to get my design built.’ ... That’s where we come in.”

 

 

Ron Huston, former owner of Advanced Circuits, joined as director of marketing.

 

Advanced Assembly Adds Capacity, Workers
Written by Mike Buetow

 

EMS provider Advanced Assembly has completed a major capacity expansion, doubling the company’s factory and office space.

The company said the expansion would permit additional  automation equipment. Furthermore, the company, whose staff grew 51% in 2008 to 50 employees, expects to hire additional workers now that the expansion is complete.

The company now has over 10,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space and four SMT lines.

 

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Advanced Assembly, a Denver-based provider of printed circuit board (PCB) assembly services, launched a new service that solves a big problem for design engineers needing fast, low-volume, or prototype PCB assembly. Unlike other assembly firms, this new service quickly machine-places components for orders as small as one, helping engineers shorten their product development cycle and providing an alternative for engineers looking for fast, precise assembly. Most projects are ready within a week, which is over 80 percent faster than the typical industry turn time of six to eight weeks.

PCB assembler Advanced Assembly received ISO 9001:2000 certification from Underwriters Laboratories (UL). ISO 9001:2000 is a series of standards for quality management systems that provides quality assurance guidelines and quality system models used by manufacturers and other companies worldwide. ISO 900 recognizes that Advanced Assembly reaches the standard for defining quality policies and objectives, roles and responsibilities, and documentation requirements, and also understands the importance of meeting customer requirements, communication and internal audits, and other improvement to its key technical process. www.aapcb.com.