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, microelectronics, microfluidics, R&D, consumer product and pharmaceutical markets. Potomac’s primary emphasis in 2018 will be…
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 innovations we’ve helped develop, but here are a few that we think you’ll find intriguing…
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 chemical polymers to create new objects, 3D printing is all around us and here to…
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, medical devices, personalized medicine, microelectronics and other advanced technologies. 2017 is an especially exciting time…
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 wafer is scribed and then mechanically broken apart or sawed with special tools. However, laser…
Potomac proudly supports Manufacturing Day, October 6, 2017. Manufacturing is important to virtually everything in our lives today so we created an infographic to show how Manufacturing impacts each and every one of us.
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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, there are many mechanisms at play that lead to heart attacks. Seemingly healthy active individuals…
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 profitability. We’re especially excited to help improve the chance of product success when we work…
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 changes in CAD software yield an optimized product that is ready for market with greater…
