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Looking Forward to a Great 2018!
With each New Year come resolutions, and for Potomac that means incorporating more tools and techniques to help our customers achieve their goals. Here are some of the specific 2018 programs we’re putting in place for the medical device, biotech,…
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Looking Back at Challenging Advanced Manufacturing Applications As 2017 Comes to a Close
At year-end, Potomac enjoys reflecting back on some of the challenging applications we helped our customers in biotech, medical devices, microfluidics, electronics, rapid prototyping and consumer products solve. Of course, due to non-disclosure agreements we can’t talk about all the…
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Potomac Photonics: Latest News from Advanced Manufacturing
As a leader in Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, Potomac Photonics is pleased to introduce its new series recapping the latest news and stories from our exciting industry. In 1983, Charles Hull thought of shining a controlled beam of ultraviolet light on…
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Thanksgiving Appreciation at Potomac
At Thanksgiving Potomac would like to pause and express our thanks for the many aspects of our contract manufacturing business that contribute to our success, while we also provide humanity with the latest innovations in healthcare, cancer screening, POC diagnostics,…
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Wafer Dicing with Laser Micromachining Creates Unique Chip Shapes in Silicon
Potomac Photonics is proud to help our neighbors at bwtech@UMBC Wafer dicing has been used for decades in the semiconductor industry to separate the individual die, or integrated circuits, from the large wafers on which they are manufactured. Often the…
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High Precision Laser Manufacturing in Kapton Helps Stanford Understand Heart Disease
In the United States heart disease is the leading cause of death, killing over 600,000 people per year according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While diet and exercise have been statistically proven to contribute to heart disease,…
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Congratulations to Prismatix and Technion on Discovery Award Grant to Further Innovation in Antibiotic Susceptibility Detection
Developing new products in the 21st century requires faster development of prototypes in order to optimize designs and speed time to market. Being first to market has been demonstrated to create barriers to market entry for competitors, and to increase…
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Potomac Proving Ground Design Testing Service Speeds Product Time to Market
Rapid prototyping is a proven method to move a product from concept to production that has been in engineering practice for decades. Especially with the advent of new digital fabrication technologies such as 3D Printing and laser micromachining, iterative design…
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Laser Micromachining Thin Glass for Biotech Applications
Potomac has developed unique laser processing capabilities, especially of thin glass, that has special application for bioscience research. Two recent projects reported in Nature | Methods and the Journal of Neuroscience required laser cutting tiny features in thin glass coverslips…
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Potomac Reports on Digital Fabrication for Advanced Manufacturing Internship Program at RAPID 2017
Digital Fabrication is uniquely suited to rapid prototyping applications. Designs created in a CAD file can be quickly brought to life via laser or CNC machining, and today, prototypes are increasingly 3D Printed. Through iterative testing and design modifications in…
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Potomac’s Manufacturing Customer Service Saves the Day for Capital One’s SXSW Innovation
Banking and the financial services industries are not usually thought of as innovative. But that is not the case at Capital One. Although one of the top 10 banks in the United States, Capital One still has a startup mentality…
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Potomac Uses Advanced Manufacturing to Change the World
For the past several years Potomac has participated in DigiFabCon, a digital fabrication conference that highlights how new digital fabrication tools like 3D Printing, CAD design, laser micromachining, and robotics are changing the world. This year, we’ll be presenting a…
