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 December 12, 2008 REVERSING THE TREND: Well, here’s a local company that’s ADDING employees and space, not cutting. 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.” Advanced Assembly will accept small orders, such as for only three circuit boards. Clients have included Motorola , AT&T , Intel , Honeywell and Medtronics . The engineer may be inventing something or adding to an existing product. The company, which began in 2004, doubled its staff from 20 to about 40 this year, and expects to double revenue in 2008 to seven figures, then double it again in 2009. The company also doubled floor space to 11,000 square feet. It’s located near I-70 and Tower Road. Manufacturing Advanced Assembly named Ron Huston director of marketing. | |
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