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CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	SD
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20230526
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20230526

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ADVANCED ENERGY INDUSTRIES INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000927003
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS, NEC [3679]
		IRS NUMBER:				840846841
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-26966
		FILM NUMBER:		23962871

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ATTN:  MIKE ZEPPELIN
		STREET 2:		1595 WYNKOOP ST, SUITE 800
		CITY:			DENVER
		STATE:			CO
		ZIP:			80202
		BUSINESS PHONE:		9704076626

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ATTN:  MIKE ZEPPELIN
		STREET 2:		1595 WYNKOOP ST, SUITE 800
		CITY:			DENVER
		STATE:			CO
		ZIP:			80202
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Roman','Times','serif';font-size:12pt;line-height:1.28;margin-bottom:8pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:10pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><b style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-weight:bold;">Section 1 - Conflict Minerals Disclosure</b><font style="font-size:11pt;"><a name="BKMK_6"></a></font></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:11pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:12pt;line-height:1.28;margin-bottom:8pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:10pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><b style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-weight:bold;">Item 1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report</b></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:11pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:12pt;line-height:1.28;margin-bottom:8pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:9pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><b style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221;)</b><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';"> </font><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;">manufactures or contracts to manufacture products that may contain &#8220;conflict minerals&#8221; as defined in paragraph (d)(3) of Item 1.01 of the Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD. As these materials are necessary to the functionality and production of the Company&#8217;s products, the Company has conducted a reasonable country of origin inquiry regarding these materials designed to determine whether any of the conflict minerals originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country (as defined in paragraph (d)(1) of Item 1.01 of the Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD).</font></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:11pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:12pt;line-height:1.28;margin-bottom:8pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:10pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';">The Company&#39;s reasonable country of origin inquiry and due diligence processes are described in the Conflict Minerals Report for the reporting period January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 attached hereto as Exhibit 1.01.</font></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:11pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:12pt;line-height:1.28;margin-bottom:8pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:10pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><b style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-weight:bold;">Conflict Minerals Disclosure</b></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:11pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:12pt;line-height:1.28;margin-bottom:8pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:10pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';">A copy of the Company&#8217;s Conflict Minerals Report is filed as Exhibit 1.01 hereto and is publicly available at https://www.advancedenergy.com/globalassets/non-resource-library-assets/sds-documents/en-legal-conflict-minerals-report.pdf</font></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:11pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;line-height:1.28;margin-bottom:8pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:10pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><b style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-weight:bold;">Item 1.02 Exhibits</b><font style="font-size:11pt;"><a name="BKMK_7"></a></font></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:11pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:12pt;line-height:1.28;margin-bottom:8pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:10pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';">The Company&#8217;s Conflict Minerals Report is filed as Exhibit 1.01 hereto.</font></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:11pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:12pt;line-height:1.28;margin-bottom:8pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p 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47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><b style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-weight:bold;">Item 3.01 Exhibits</b></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:11pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:12pt;line-height:1.28;margin-bottom:8pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><div style="padding-left:47.05pt;" align="left"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:16pt;height:max-content;padding-left:0pt;padding-right:0pt;table-layout:auto;width:83.65%;"><tr style="height:1pt;"><td style="vertical-align:top;width:14.23%;margin:0pt;padding:0pt;"><div style="height:1pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;position:relative;"><div style="position:absolute;top:0pt;width:100%;"><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:11pt;line-height:1.28;margin:0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><font 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style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:9pt;line-height:1.19;text-align:center;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><b style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-weight:bold;">SIGNATURES</b><font style="font-size:11pt;"><a name="BKMK_10"></a></font></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:11pt;line-height:1.19;text-align:center;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:12pt;line-height:1.28;margin-bottom:8pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:9pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.</font></p><p 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Vonne</u></p></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;width:17.57%;margin:0pt;padding:0pt;"><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:10pt;line-height:1.19;margin:1.75pt 0pt 0pt 2.7pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';">Date: May 26, 2023</font></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top;width:24.9%;margin:0pt;padding:0pt;"><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:11pt;line-height:1.19;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 2.7pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;line-height:1.28;margin-bottom:8pt;margin-left:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p></td><td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;width:57.51%;margin:0pt;padding:0pt;"><p style="font-family:'Calibri','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:10pt;line-height:1.19;margin:1.75pt 0pt 0pt 2.7pt;"><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';">Elizabeth K. 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<!--Enhanced HTML document created with Toppan Merrill Bridge  9.14.0.96--><!--Created on: 5/19/2023 08:26:49 PM (UTC)--><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html><head><meta charset="UTF-8"><title></title></head><body><div style="margin-top:30pt;"></div><div style="max-width:100%;padding-left:2.94%;padding-right:2.94%;position:relative;"><div style="clear:both;max-width:100%;position:relative;"><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;line-height:1.43;margin:0pt;"><font style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0pt;width:36pt;"><font style="font-family:'Arial','Helvetica','sans-serif';font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;"> </font></font><font style="display:inline-block;width:36pt;"></font><a name="Conflict_Minerals_Report"></a><font style="font-family:'Arial','Helvetica','sans-serif';visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;line-height:1.43;text-align:right;margin:0pt;">EXHIBIT 1.01</p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;line-height:1.43;margin:0pt;"><font style="visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-36pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 46.15pt;"><b style="font-weight:bold;">Conflict Minerals Report of Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.</b></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-36pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 46.15pt;"><b style="font-weight:bold;">For Year Ending December 31, 2022</b></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-size:12pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><u style="text-decoration-color:#000000;text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:solid;">Introduction and Company Overview</u></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;text-indent:32.4pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-size:12pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;text-indent:32.4pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="white-space:pre-wrap;">This Conflict Minerals Report of Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (&#8220;AE&#8221;) for the reporting year January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 was prepared in accordance with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (&#8220;Rule 13p-1&#8221;). All references to &quot;Company&quot;, &quot;we&quot;, &quot;our&quot; and similar references are references to Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries. AE provides highly engineered, mission-critical, precision power conversion, measurement, and control solutions to our global customers. We design, manufacture, sell, and support precision power products that transform, refine, and modify the raw electrical power coming from either the utility or the building facility and convert it into various types of highly controllable, usable power that is predictable, repeatable, and customizable to meet the necessary requirements for powering a wide range of complex equipment. Our power solutions enable innovation in complex semiconductor and thin film plasma processes such as dry etch, strip and deposition, high and low voltage applications such as semiconductor process control, data center computing, networking, telecommunication, medical equipment, life science applications, industrial technology and production, scientific instruments, clean technology production, advanced material production and temperature-critical thermal. We also supply related sensing, controls, and instrumentation products for advanced measurement and calibration of radio frequency power and temperature, and electrostatic instrumentation products for test and measurement applications (all such products described in this paragraph, the &#8220;AE Products&#8221;). Our network of global service support centers provides a recurring revenue opportunity as we offer repair services, conversions, upgrades, refurbishments, and used equipment to companies using the AE Products.  Please refer to Rule 13p-1, Form SD, and the 1934 Act Release No. 34-67716, for definitions of the terms used in this report, unless otherwise defined herein.</font></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;text-indent:32.4pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-size:12pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;text-indent:32.4pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;">For the 2022 calendar year, AE determined that tin, tungsten, tantalum, and/or gold (&#8220;3TGs&#8221;) were necessary to the functionality or production of the AE Products that were manufactured or contracted to be manufactured. As a downstream supplier of the AE Products, the Company is far down the supply chain from the actual mining or refining of 3TGs. By engaging with its direct suppliers, the Company conducted a reasonable country of inquiry (&#8220;RCOI&#8221;) to determine whether any of the 3TGs in our products originated in the Democratic Republic of Congo or adjoining countries (&#8220;Covered Countries&#8221;). The Company conducted good faith due diligence on the source and chain of custody of the necessary 3TGs as summarized in this Conflict Minerals Report.</p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;text-indent:32.4pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-size:12pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:9pt;text-indent:32.4pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-size:10pt;">AE</font> <font style="font-size:10pt;">is committed to complying with the requirements of Rule 13p-1 and upholding responsible sourcing practices. As such, the Company has put into place a robust due diligence program to ensure its contributions to upholding human rights and responsible practices across the supply chain.</font></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;text-indent:32.4pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-size:12pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><u style="text-decoration-color:#000000;text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:solid;">Conflict Minerals Policy</u></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-size:12pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;">The Company&#39;s Conflict Minerals Policy states our intent to avoid knowingly procuring materials that contain 3TGs that originate in the Covered Countries and that are not certified as conflict-free. The Company communicates the expectation that our suppliers adhere to this practice as well. The policy also encourages our suppliers to establish and follow appropriate due diligence programs and provide us with information regarding the source of 3TGs in the material they sell to us. Our conflict mineral policy is available on our website at https://www.advancedenergy.com/globalassets/non-resource-library-assets/sds-documents/conflict-minerals-policy.pdf.</p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-size:12pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-size:12pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-size:12pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-size:12pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="color:#ffffff;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;line-height:1.8pt;text-align:center;background:#000000;margin:27pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-size:1.8pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p></div><div style="clear:both;margin-bottom:23pt;width:100%;"><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;line-height:1.43;margin:0pt;"><font style="visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p></div></div><hr style="background-color:#000000;clear:both;color:#000000;height:2pt;line-height:0;margin-bottom:30pt;margin-left:2.94%;margin-right:2.94%;margin-top:30pt;page-break-after:always;width:94.12%;border-width:0;"><div style="max-width:100%;padding-left:2.94%;padding-right:2.94%;position:relative;"><div style="clear:both;max-width:100%;position:relative;"><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;"><font style="font-size:12pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><u style="text-decoration-color:#000000;text-decoration-line:underline;text-decoration-style:solid;">Description of Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry</u></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;text-indent:32.4pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;"><font style="font-size:12pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;visibility:hidden;">&#8203;</font></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Times','serif';font-size:10pt;text-indent:32.4pt;margin:0pt 47.05pt 0pt 47.05pt;">To determine whether necessary 3TGs in products originated in Covered Countries, AE reviewed the supply chain and conducted an RCOI as it relates to 3TGs. To implement the RCOI, the Company surveyed its direct suppliers to collect information regarding the presence and sourcing of 3TG used in the products supplied to the Company. The survey used the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (&#8220;CMRT&#8221;) version 6.10 or higher to conduct a survey of in-scope suppliers. 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