We are an Electronic Manufacturing Services ("EMS") company with
our headquarters in Maple Grove, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
We maintain facilities and operations in Minnesota and Wisconsin in the United
States; Monterrey, Mexico; and Suzhou, China. We offer a full range of value-added
engineering, technical and manufacturing services and support including project
management, design, testing, prototyping, manufacturing, supply chain management
and post-market services. Our manufacturing and engineering services include
complete medical devices, printed circuit board assemblies, wire and cable assemblies,
and complex higher level electromechanical assemblies. The majority of our revenue
is derived from products built to the customers design specifications.
Our breadth of manufacturing, technical expertise and experience make us attractive
to our broad customer base. Our customers are original equipment manufacturers
("OEMs") in the Aerospace/Defense, Medical and Industrial/Commercial
markets. The diversity in the markets we serve is an advantage in dealing with
the effects of fluctuations from the economy and competition. In the design
phase, we provide technical support, subject matter expertise in design for
manufacturing and testing capabilities that allow our customer programs to get
to production faster while meeting both their quality and cost requirements.
Our customers rely on our experience and capabilities in manufacturing and supply
chain to manage and reduce cost over the life cycle of their products. This
requires a strong relationship with our customers based on a trusting partnership
as we perform as an extension of their operations.
The EMS industry has evolved into a dynamic, high-tech global electronics
contract services industry. We continue to expand our capabilities and foot
print to better meet these changing market requirements. Along with offering
technical expertise in our quality processes, engineering design applications
and testing, we are also increasing our focus on supplier-managed inventory
services and the cost drivers throughout the global supply chain. Asia expansion
is designed to support global customer base and provide competitive economic
alternatives for the overall business health.
We continue to pursue acquisitions, mergers, and/or joint ventures of companies
in the EMS industry to increase our service offering, remain competitive, grow
our customer base and increase revenues. Our strategic objectives and our history
are based on both organic and acquired growth.
Our quality systems and processes are based on International Standards Organization
("ISO") standards with all facilities certified to the latest version
of the ISO 9001 and/or Aerospace Systems ("AS") 9100 standards. We
also have ISO 13485 certification which recognizes our quality management systems
applicable to contract design, manufacture and repair of assemblies for the
medical industry. Our Milaca operation is a U.S. Food and Drug Administration
("FDA") registered facility. These certifications and registrations
provide our customers assurance of our capabilities and proven processes. All
of our facilities are certified to one or more of the ISO/AS standards, with
most having additional certifications based on the needs of the customers they
serve.
We are committed to quality, cost effectiveness and responsiveness to customer
requirements. To achieve these objectives we have invested in Restriction of
Hazardous Substances (lead free) processing, equipment, plant capacity studies,
people, enterprise resource planning systems, lean manufacturing and supply
chain management techniques at our facilities. We are committed to continuous
improvement and have invested in training our people to identify and act on
improvement opportunities. We maintain a diversified customer base and expand
into other capabilities and services when there is a fit with our core competencies
and strategic vision.
