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Micro 3D Printing Middle Ear Prosthesis To Bring Music to the Ears of Hearing Loss Sufferers
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…
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If you can’t take the heat, get behind the heat shield… Potomac’s latest project for NASA
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…
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Laser Micromachining Tools: Seeing the Light!
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…
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Potomac’s New ISO 9001:2008 & 13485:2003 Certification Renewal Verifies Our Customer-Centric Philosophy
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…
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UMBC Art Student Creates “Pathway to the Future” Mural for New Potomac bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park Facility
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…
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Helping Oregon State University Improve a Radiation Detector with Laser Micromachining Expertise
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…
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Potomac Expands 3D Printing Service Capabilities Following 3D Systems Factory Training
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,…
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Potomac Initiates Education Series with 3D Systems 3DPrinting 2.0 Workshops
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,…
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Helping NASA’s CRESST Center at UMBC Explore the Far Reaches of the Universe
An exciting aspect of Potomac’s new location at bwtech@UMBC Research & Technology Park is the close collaboration the University of Maryland, Baltimore County [UMBC in the park’s name] has with NASA. UMBC is actually ranked 13th among universities receiving research…
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UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski & Baltimore County Executive Visit New Potomac Photonics Facility
Potomac is excited that the first official event at our new facility in the bwtech@UMBC research and technology park was a visit on April 22 from UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski, executives from Baltimore County government, and members of the…
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Digital Fabrication Summit to Open New Potomac Photonics Center in Baltimore
After 30 years on the DC Beltway, Potomac’s upcoming move to the bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park in Baltimore is a big change for us. We’re expanding both in terms of space and facilities, but also broadening our manufacturing reach…
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Helping Makers with Special Needs Get 3D Printers & 3D Tech Tools
There’s nothing quite as gratifying as giving back to the community that has supported our business over the years. But it’s especially exciting when we can contribute while also helping to foster progress in STEM [Science – Technology – Engineering…
