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Premier Advantage

Premier Manufacturing is a full-service PCB contract manufacturer nestled along the front range of the Rocky Mountains in our 45,000 square foot facility located in Frederick, Colorado.

Our core values are honesty and integrity. 

We strive to have the lowest total acquisition cost with regard to:

  • Quality
  • Price
  • Delivery
  • Service
  • Flexibility

Premier Manufacturing creates its value by increasing speed to market and driving competitive positioning for customers. Premier Manufacturing in essence solves customers’ most challenging problems better, faster, and more cost effectively than any of our competitors. 

Premier Manufacturing is certified to the ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D:2016 standards, and is ITAR registered.

We are a Certified Minority Business Enterprise by the Rocky Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council.

We provide both surface-mount and through-hole PCB assembly.

We also provide box build services and full turn-key material support.

Some market segments we support:

  • Medical
  • Data Storage
  • LED message signs
  • Water Instrumentation
  • Automotive
  • Aerospace/Defense
  • Vacuum, and instrumentation solutions
  • Life sciences
  • Energy Exploration

Services

New Product Introduction:

All new customers and every new product is released to our manufacturing floor only after successfully going through our configuration change management process. 

Prototype Services:

  • Proof of your PCB design before ramping to production
  • Robust transition from prototype to production through Copy Exact processes
  • DEK and MyData 100 LXE - Mycronic 200 pick-and-place machine, Mycronic Towers
  • Automated optical inspection
  • Turnkey or consigned assembly ensures a speed to market solution.
  • Leading edge packages, i.e. 01005, BGA, Micro BGA, CGA, and LGA etc.
  • 2D X-ray capabilities – 3D available

SMT Production Services:

  • Design for manufacturing and design for testability
  • DEK, Samsung and Micronic pick and place machines
  • In-line aqueous cleaning system with DI water closed-loop filtering
  • Leading-edge packages i.e. 01005, BGA, Micro BGA, CGA, and LGA etc.
  • Turn-key or consigned assembly ensures a speed to market solution
  • Automated optical inspection on each line
  • 2D X-ray capabilities – 3D available

Through-Hole Services:

  • Automated radial, DIP and axial insertion machines
  • Contact Systems semi-automatic insertion machines
  • Slide-line technology
  • Selective wave soldering system with RoHS and leaded solder capability
  • Lead-free and leaded wave soldering systems

Box Build Integration:

  • Our goal through HLA (higher Level Assembly) is to provide our customers the time and engineering resources to focus on their core competencies of design and innovation of new products. When we perform box build and final test we are often dock to stock for the customer.

Engineering & Test Development Support:

  • Along with our horizontal partners we can provide design engineering services
  • Our experienced engineering partners can take your specs and run with the project, work in a hands-on collaboration effort with your team, or provide consulting services at any stage of electronics product development
  • With over 30 years of printed circuit board experience, they have the knowledge and resources to guide your PCB or flex board design through the manufacturing process right the first time saving you time and money.
  • We also provide functional and in-circuit test solutions with our local test partners

Supply Chain Management:

  • Premier's supply chain organization is focused on procuring  turnkey parts at the lowest cost and on time. Utilizing years of experience the team has established key relationships with Distributors and OEM’s. These relationships have resulted in Premier being able to establish Kanban stocking arrangements with our Distributor partners. By utilizing state of the art ERP software from Global Shop SolutionsTM we are able to provide accurate inventory control and traceability that is needed for the aerospace and medical industry. Our Procurement team also utilizes Silicon Experts tm which has a data base of 250 million electronic parts that allows Buyers to determine stocking availability, end of life status, counterfeit part probability and data sheets within a few key strokes.

Program Management:

  • We use a program management approach for servicing our entire customer base. Each program manager is a technical asset for you and is responsible for all project requirements.

Our Team

Edmond Johnson, President

Edmond Johnson, Owner of Premier Manufacturing, Inc., in Frederick, Colorado, holds an MBA in Marketing from Clark Atlanta University.

Before founding Premier Manufacturing Inc., Edmond held various management and middle management positions in Manufacturing Operations and Supply Chain Management with IBM, AST Computers, US Robotics, 3COM, and Maxtor Corporation.  As CEO of Premier Manufacturing, Inc. Edmond applied his education and career experience to grow Premier Manufacturing Inc. to one of the largest, 3rd tier, contract manufacturing operations in Colorado. Premier Manufacturing Inc. was recognized as one of the fastest growing companies by Colorado Biz Magazine. Edmond is also very involved in the community, supporting various scholarship funds and charity programs.

Linda Tedder, Director of Operations

Linda, has 25+ years of experience in the electronics industry. Linda spent 18 years of her experience in the disk drive industry with Miniscribe, Maxtor, and Seagate Technology, all tier-one disk drive manufacturers. That experience gives Linda a keen operational background in production and supply chain management. Linda is responsible for all manufacturing operations including Shipping and Receiving, Production Control, Accounting, Manufacturing, and Procurement. Linda was key in expanding Premier’s physical building from 15,000 to 50,000 square feet and establishing an infrastructure to manage its growth. Linda has also established key strategic alliances with our tier-one parts distributors including Arrow, Avnet, Digi-key, Future, and TTI as well as established an off-shore relationship to procure high-quality, low-cost FABs from Taiwan. Linda was instrumental in the implementation of a new end-to-end ERP software system from Global Shop Solutions.

Stan Haag, Quality Manager

Stan has 20+ years of technical experience in Supply Chain Operations. Stan began his high-tech career at Honeywell Inc. where he worked as a test and process engineer for 14 years. He has held positions as a Quality Manager for companies such as DOVatron International and Flextronics International, and more recently as an NPI Program Manager and Hardware Technologist for Sun Microsystems. Now as the Quality Manager for Premier Manufacturing, he is responsible for all aspects of the Premier Quality Management System. Stan also manages the quality certifications that Premier Manufacturing currently holds, ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D:2016.

Vicki Hoff, Plant Manager

Vicki has been with Premier Manufacturing for 16 years; she started as a Production Supervisor and is now the Plant Manager. With one supervisor, three department leads on first shift and a lead on second shift, Vicki manages 72 production employees. Vicki oversees making customer commitments and working with her team to ensure that those commitments are being met. Vicki is also responsible for prioritizing work and making sure Premier employees are properly trained to Premier’s quality standards thus ensuring that quality products are shipped to Premier’s customers. Vicki manages one of our customers by receiving orders, scheduling the line and making shipping commitments. Vicki is also instrumental in resolving employee issues and making sure Premier provides a safe work environment for its employees.

Joe Carley, Manufacturing Engineer

Joe has an extensive background in manufacturing engineering.  His manufacturing work experience includes: Black Fox Technologies, Western Electronics, and Premier Manufacturing, Inc. Joe has accumulated more than 24 years in the electronics industry. Joe has been involved in plant layouts and developing new processes to improve efficiency. Joe presently and in the past has established continuous flow (CFM) strategies throughout the manufacturing floor. Joe has certifications and formal education in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, and Business Administration. Joe is currently taking online classes at University of Anáhuac (Mexico) for an additional degree in Religious Science. Joe is married to Carmen Carley and has 3 daughters (Priscilla, Emily and Natalie), 2 sons (Joseph and Anthony), and 2 grandkids (Jovanni and Jose). Joe loves to spend time with his family and he likes the outdoors.

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  • customer's part number
  • manufacturer's part numbers 
  • component descriptions
  • quantities
  • reference designators (locations)
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