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About
Us: Assembled Products is succeeding in the world of manufacturing
by concentrating on doing the little things and doing them well. It’s a
formula that appears to have worked for the small company that has just move
into the Elgin Crossroads area from Memphis, TN. For nearly 18 years
Assembled Products’ primary area of expertise has been design and
manufacture of custom electronics.
“We are
contract manufacturers and we get simple jobs such as manufacturing after
market chips for cares, to orders for complex medical devices.” “Our clients
are from a variety of industries, such as telecommunication, automotive,
medical, alternative vehicles, and the building trades. We get a good mix
because we are known for doing high quality manufacturing.”
Michael
Stevens, president and his son Glen (Operation Manager) have earned a
reputation as designers and builders of products that most large
manufacturers tend to shy away from because orders generally are small and
profit margins are too low.
In January
1986, Michael Stevens decided to start his own business, in part because the
large manufacturer he was working for at the time would regularly decline to
do small jobs. Stevens saw an opportunity to go to work for himself doing
what he enjoyed and help other businesses and individuals at the same time.
He set up
Assembled Products in a tiny cinder block building that had once been home
to a cabinet shop. The building was tucked away in a secluded area of
Collierville, TN. “While the location was bad, the rent was right and it
allowed us to gradually build our business to the point where we could move
too better location,” Stevens says. In 1990 Mr. Stevens moved the company
to a much higher profile location in Piperton, TN. Outgrowing the 5000
square foot building, he moved the company to the old TeeJays building in
Elgin with its’ 32,000 square foot of space.
With this
32,000 square foot building, the Stevens’ and their professionally trained
technicians and engineers take on the electronics product jobs that most
others pass on. Their customers have included Federal Express Corp., the
University of Memphis, AutoZone, Inc., Hypertech, Inc., and IBS.
Non-corporate
clients are shade-tree mechanics and amateur inventors and tinkers looking
to strike it rich with a new or improved product. At times, some of their
ideas for new products or problem solving can be worked out in an
unconventional fashion and job orders can be delivered in equally odd ways.
“We use to get a lot of great ideas on napkins, now they come on makeshift
computer printouts,” says Michael.
Each idea is
given careful consideration, whether it is coming up with a circuit board
for a high-tech barbecue cooker or an Equine Lithotripter machine. “There
are few projects that we have not been able to do. Most of those we can’t
do, we know someone else who can, so we send our clients to them. On
occasion someone will want us to make too many pieces for our facility (we
don’t expect this problem in our new building) and we will recommend
alternatives. A big order for us is 5000 pieces a month.” , explains
Michael.
Assembled
Products’ clients tend to return time and again because they know their
product will work. We have the advantage of quality in our assemblies, not
everyone takes the time to do that. |