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dsi has been providing
high-quality bare printed circuit boards and contract electronic manufacturing
support to our customers for over three decades. Incorporated in 1973,
by Stan Bentley, President, and Dave Jessup, Vice President of Operations,
dsi began as a design and engineering service company. By 1980, dsi had created
the structure of a vertically integrated electronic manufacturing company
offering product design, printed circuit board fabrication (PCD), and
assembly of products that dsi designed. Today the ownership
remains with the two original founders.
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Custom Products Division (CPD) was established in the early 1980s as a true
contract assembler to assemble product not designed by dsi. The Custom Products
Division ventured into surface mount technology in the late 1980s with one
MyData TP-9. CPD now runs three shifts in SMT, has multiple automated lines
for our high-mix, prototype to medium-volume product, and in early 2000 installed two
very high-volume automotive SMT product lines. |
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's Printed Circuit Division (PCD) continued to quietly grow during the 1980s
and 1990s to become one of the leading suppliers of high technology boards
in the Midwest. While dsi manufactures almost all of the boards assembled by the
Custom Products Division, it still sells over 80% of the boards manufactured
on the merchant market. |
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1995, dsi purchased the former Ransburg campus which allowed all operations
to be centralized in 250,000 square feet under one roof. The new facility
was completely renovated specifically to serve as a high technology electronic
manufacturing operation. With the new facility, dsi implemented a new marketing
concept named "Rapid." The Rapid Prototype Division (RPT) was
conceived as a marketing tool for companies concerned with time to market.
The new division grew quickly and became a key part of dsi 's success. dsi
's RPT division turns bare boards in as few as 24 hours and assembled boards
in as few as 3 to 5 business days. All RPT product is made to production
quality standards (including ISO/TS 16949:2002, ISO 9001:2000, FDA, and Automotive Underhood),
and is run on the same lines as production product. |
| dsi
's offerings set it apart from the competition early on. Typically, one
company manufactures the boards and another assembles them, but dsi does
both under one roof. We provide synchronized systems from conception of
the product (if desired) to the full box build in one facility with networked
systems and a full technical staff. |
| Innovation
has long been the hallmark of dsi. Most of our divisions do not look like
their industry competitors. Our process lines are custom designed, our systems
are networked and linked, and creativity is encouraged. We continue to invest in improvements that will provide innovative
solutions to meet our customers' evolving needs. |
