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Making, inventing, fabricating, creating: Activities that drive America’s innovation history and shape the economic landscape of the nation. President Obama proclaimed June 12 – 18 a National Week of Making. Coast to coast, in cities and rural areas, Americans answered…

In recent years pharmaceutical and medical device processors have increasingly relied upon packaging quality to improve product shelf life and efficacy. Whenever there is any sort of physical breach of the packaging structure, the product integrity is compromised, reducing yields…

Potomac Photonics laser micromachines small windows in glass to support research at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. Asthma is one of the leading health conditions in the world. According to the US Centers for Disease Control there are 18.7 million…

Potomac was recently honored to be included in NASA’s Technology Day on the Hill, an annual event that showcases the latest transformational technologies that have resulted from NASA funding.  In addition to one half-dozen congressional lawmakers and almost 300 Hill…

Having the chance to improve safety of large industrial systems is a gratifying application in our digital fabrication work. One such application recently presented itself to Potomac through the University of Oklahoma’s [OU] School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Growing…

Over the last few years, Inside 3D Printing has proven to be a lively, educational event that takes place around the globe. The New York version this year has grown to a full 3D Printing Week with multiple activities around…

Potomac is thrilled to announce that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA] has invited us to demonstrate our digital fabrication technologies at NASA Technology Day, April 29, on Capitol Hill. We’ll be showing samples of the many types of…

Digital fabrication processes such as laser micromachining and 3D Printing have had enormous impact on manufacturing by allowing for rapid prototyping and testing of new product designs. These digital fabrication tools are driven by instructions from a computer aided design…

Engineering is a process, a continual development of new techniques to improve products so that we can expand their usefulness via better performance, longer lifetime and reduced cost. And it’s even more gratifying when the engineering process improvement saves more…