Daktronics Manufacturing
Modern, Automated Manufacturing Facilities
The company's main manufacturing facilities are located at its headquarters in Brookings, S.D., with approximately 460,000 square feet dedicated to manufacturing operations. Additional facilities in nearby Sioux Falls, S.D., Redwood Falls, Minn., and Victor, N.Y. dedicate space to manufacturing which gives Daktronics a total of 728,000 square feet of manufacturing capacity located on 80 acres of land.Daktronics believes in vertical integration to ensure quality and timely delivery. Manufacturing capabilities include circuit board manufacture, electronic assembly, metal fabrication, welding, painting, final assembly, testing and shipping.
Unlike many of its competitors that purchase display modules and other subassemblies from overseas, Daktronics designs and manufactures most of the subassemblies used in its products, including scoreboard digits and display modules. The company has made significant investment in its manufacturing facilities over the past several years, including numerous pieces of automated equipment and additional assembly space.
Seeing is Believing
Visitors to Daktronics manufacturing facilities are thoroughly impressed when they witness the technology, the automation, and the sheer scale and number of projects in production. A walkthrough of the factory reveals an amazing amount of collaboration of high tech work cells, building numerous electronic subassemblies, precision cut aluminum parts, digit of various sizes, and monochrome and multi-color display modules to be used in scoreboards and displays around the world.
Manufacturing Facilities Facts
- 728,000 square feet of manufacturing work space (67,633 m2)
- Flow through facility implementing focus factory concept with multiple final assembly areas
- Use of highest quality of LEDs
- Automated LED/electronic component insertion
- 100% solid state electronics
- Conformal coating on drive electronics
- Potted and environmentally sealed digits and modules
- Printed circuit board fabrication
- Wave solder and aqueous wash
- Computerized metal fabrication
- Corrosion resistant aluminum cabinetry
- Water-sealed cabinets to meet ETL standards
- Proprietary pixel-to-pixel and module-to-module calibration systems
- Welding
- Multiple (7) paint booths
- Multiple (16) overhead cranes
- Component and system test facilities
- Accelerated life testing
- Indoor shipping and loading facilities