During the mid-1980’s, the large semiconductor company where Dan Stuber (now President of AeTec) worked found itself fighting for market share in this increasingly competitive environment. In the late 1980’s, a group of the company's executives went to Japan to benchmark the electronics industry's most efficient companies, and to figure out how they did it.

They returned with several "learning’s," one of which was that those companies used outsourcing extensively to accomplish their manufacturing needs. Dan's supervisor directed him to identify a few manufacturing operations within the company that could be potential candidates for outsourcing; he then had to choose one and prepare it to go outside as a test case. That was fine with Dan because he had always wanted to own and operate his own company.

Solder Coating of component leads was chosen as the candidate; it was a necessary function, a mature and stable process, took up a lot of valuable facility space and support, and required close attention in order for it to run correctly.

Dan spent the next year and a half preparing the operation to go outside, keeping it within the company for the interim. He hired and trained his own people, found new positions within the company for the current staff, and gradually transitioned the operation out of the corporate structure. Then he and his team picked up the whole thing– equipment, processes, tables, chairs and all – and moved it to AeTec's current site.

The "experiment" was deemed a success after a year producing higher yields and faster cycle times at a lower cost. Other services followed or were developed by AeTec as customers' needs arose.

Today, we are the place to go to for any manufacturing technology needed, whether we currently run it or not. We simply follow the same winning formula--offer a solution which is cheaper, better and profitable. It is in these ways that AeTec and its customers can focus on what we do best – our core capabilities – thereby maximizing returns on all of our efforts.

Contact us via e-mail or give us a call at (480) 831-6006 and find out what outsourcing to us can do for your business.

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