How Digital Fabrication Gives Us So Much to be Thankful For Everyday!

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How Digital Fabrication Gives Us So Much to be Thankful For Everyday!

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CryoPop 3D Parts manufactured by Potomac Photonics for Jhpiego.

With the Thanksgiving Holiday upon us, we’re reflecting on how very much we all have to be thankful for in our lives.  At Potomac, we of course are lucky to have satisfying work from a wide variety of exciting customer applications.  We are thankful for the customers who give us the opportunity to work with them on challenging problems and come up with creative solutions to help their products in every phase from prototype to production.  We are very thankful for the great team we’ve assembled that works hard to deliver the best products and services.

But most of all, we are thankful for how our work in digital fabrication reaches beyond the factory floor to touch the lives of people around the world.  Here are a few examples:

• We work with university research teams that are developing life-saving medical devices and analytical tools.  From Stem Cell Research at Boston University to Cancer research at the University of Colorado to the CyroPop associated with Johns Hopkins, we are grateful to be able to help improve the health of our world neighbors.
• We are thankful for the opportunity to impact energy work in a variety of programs from MIT’s work for energy-efficient computing to the University of Michigan’s Nuclear Research program.
• Baltimore County, the State of Maryland and the University of Maryland Baltimore County have recognized the value of Potomac’s work in fostering innovation and we are most thankful for their support of our growth.  You’ll be reading more in the coming months about our expansion to the innovation center at BWTech@UMBC where we look forward to driving economic development with our unique capabilities.
• Digital Fabrication speeds up time to market for new products and our work with innovators, inventors, and startups allows their great ideas to come to reality quicker as we rapid prototype with 3D Printing, laser micro-machining, micro hole drilling and CNC machining.  We are grateful to be able to impact the creation of new businesses around the world and also help take them to high volume production with state of the art quality control.

Micro hole drilling

Dr. Neil Gershenfeld, founder of the MIT FabLab and Director of the Center for Bits and Atoms says that the power of Digital Fabrication is not in the technology, but rather in the social impact it has on the world.  We are grateful to be a part of that process.  To everyone who allows us to make that happen every day at Potomac: Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!