LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Computers help to run so many devices used by different industries around the world, and one Las Vegas valley business is making a key component for many of those tools.
13 Action News anchor Kalyna Astrinos takes us inside this Las Vegas company.
NAS ELECTRONICS
Welcome to Nevada Assembly Service, doing business as NAS Electronics on Pecos and East Alexander. Jeff Wayne is CEO.
The company moved from California to Las Vegas nearly 30 years ago. They started as an electronics distributor and, about seven years ago, moved to manufacturing in-house.
"We manufacture for a wide variety of industries, mostly commercial and industrial," Wayne said.
Their products serve a variety of businesses, from automotive and construction, to audio equipment and gaming — and their clients stretch across the globe.
"We do work with companies in the U.K. and Germany, New Zealand, Australia," Wayne said.
State-of-the-art machines produce anywhere from 20,000 to 50,000 electronic boards every month. Some are built in just minutes.
"We do full turnkey, meaning we'll buy all the raw material and go all the way through the process from building the raw PCB, doing the actual assembly for the circuit board. A lot of people know them as motherboards and things like that," Wayne said.
FANTASTIC PEOPLE
But Wayne says none of this would be possible without his more than 40 employees, monitoring these machines and even doing some work by hand.
"The people here in Nevada have been fantastic, especially in Las Vegas. They're hungry to learn a new profession. It's really cool to see what we're getting out of that," Wayne said.
The hardest part, he says, is keeping up with technology. Parts are getting a lot smaller. Wayne says a Wi-Fi chip that used to be the size of your palm is now the size of your pinky. And some capacitors and resistors are smaller than the lead tip on a pencil.
"It's a constant battle with the industry. There's newer, smaller components that machines can't quite place yet. So you have to constantly update your equipment and always get the newest equipment or new software," Wayne said.
NAS Electronics is looking to expand to a larger facility in Las Vegas, and they're currently hiring.
