Potomac is fortunate to be located in Maryland, which is one of the nation’s leading areas for BioTech research and development. With highly regarded medical schools at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, and the National Institutes of Health and Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, the Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, as…
3D Printing is frequently in the news as a process for manufacturing prosthesis to replace lost limbs. And it’s an obvious choice when additive manufacturing is combined with 3D Scanning to easily custom fit a prosthetic to a patient’s unique physical requirements. Here at Potomac we’re also finding more and more unique applications to micro…
Part II of a series of blog posts focused on Innovative Manufacturing…. Micro marking is more than just being able to focus a laser to a small spot size. Accurate placement of marks on small components with high precision requires expertise in motion control, parts handling, and laser/material interaction. Potomac merged all of these capabilities…
Part I of a series of blogs posts focused on Innovative Manufacturing Technologies As the trend toward miniaturization of devices accelerates, finding the right tool for the job is becoming more challenging. Options that initially seem promising often fall short of expectations because they cannot meet tolerances, are not cost effective or have the ability…
Recently, Potomac passed both internal and external audits to become re-certified in the ISO international standards program. From its inception Potomac has worked from a customer-centric philosophy and our first ISO certification in 2006 codified our commitment to quality. Going through the rigorous re-certification continues our work in an area that we feel is key…
Potomac Photonics’ new location at the bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park is giving us great opportunities for collaboration with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. While we are already involved in science and engineering projects, we recently had a wonderful opportunity to work with a student artist. Susan Lynch, who is the Development Officer for…
At Potomac, we often talk about selecting the right tool from our factory floor for the job at hand. A recent opportunity to manufacture a shadow mask for a radiation detection project at Oregon State University allowed us to solve the fabrication issues involved through understanding which digital fabrication tool was best for the particular…
With a world-class Digital Fabrication facility, Potomac has been a 3D Systems 3D Printer reseller with an unparalleled depth of application understanding. For over 30 years, we have manufactured micro-scale devices for the microelectronics, sensor, microfluidics, medical device, consumer products, and education markets. In reality, we have just about seen it all when it comes…
Potomac’s move to bwtech@umbc gives us the perfect facility to offer education, training, workshops, and conferences. With auditoriums, conference rooms, and video conferencing alongside state of the art equipment, we have the space and bandwidth to help engineers, designers, educators, business owners, artists – actually anyone interested in Digital Fabrication – learn about the power…
Digital Manufacturing Leader Potomac Photonics is pleased to announce that it recently completed precision 3D printed parts for Boston University to support their research in stem cells. Stem cells, which have enormous potential in medical research because of their ability to differentiate into specialized cells types, may one day provide a renewable source of replacement…
