"BEI is an outstanding company," says Ryan. SlingShot's focus is on prototyping and low-volume production into the hundreds of units it acquired Franksville, Wisconsin-based BEI Electronics in 2018 in order to handle mid-range volumes in the thousands of units. Customers sending you their jobs aren't expecting you to learn on their dime." It's one thing to get equipment, but you have to qualify the facility. "Stuart, myself, and our first engineers literally scrubbed the floors. "It's been a nice launch, but it didn't come without a lot of hard work," says Ryan. That involved taking a 10,000-square-foot warehouse and building a state-of-the art PCB shop from scratch. "The initial year was a combination of planning out equipment purchases, finding a location, and setting up our production facility," says McKeel. "One of the fun things when you start a business, you can challenge the norms or you can challenge yourself," he adds. "We think makes a better-quality product." "We fundamentally disagree with that," says Ryan. Most domestic PCB suppliers avoid automation. "We saw an opportunity to come in with a different approach." "We come from the PCB industry, Stuart and I, as well as our third partner, Ron ," says Ryan. Products: Printed circuit boards President Kevin Ryan and VP Stuart McKeel are rethinking prototyping for printed circuit boards with a strategy that leverages automation for better manufacturability. We also have an AOI that makes sure every product that gets shipped fits our high standards.Employees: 18 (sister company BEI has 80 in Wisconsin) Our Wisconsin facility has two high-speed SMT lines that assemble parts precisely and quickly.
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Our facilities in Colorado and Wisconsin are designed to support everything from small simple assembly orders all the way to complex, full box build projects. We delivery top quality printed circuit boards on time with outstanding customer service, fast quoting and excellent technical support. Whether you need a couple boards for an early prototype version completed in a few days or a reliable supplier for large production runs spread over the year, we can help.įrom the US military to small start-ups with big dreams, engineers and buyers alike trust the SlingShot Team. Slingshot Assembly partners with customers across the United States to build fast, high-end PCB assemblies every day.