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Fokus auf Biotech: Lecksuche Kalibrierung Bohrlochbohrung

Potomac Expands its Leak Detection Hole Drilling Capabilities Every pharmaceutical, food, and nutrition products manufacturer is faced with the challenge of making sure their products meet the highest quality standards. Container integrity is one of the major concerns when it comes to patient or consumer safety. If you are in the process of installing or…
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Maryland BioTech Feature: Stammzellenzentrum überträgt Grundlagenforschung auf innovative Ansätze zur Krebsbehandlung

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…
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Mikro-3D-Druck von Mittelohrprothesen bringt Musik in die Ohren von Hörgeschädigten

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…
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Wenn du die Hitze nicht aushältst, versteck dich hinter dem Hitzeschild... Potomacs neuestes Projekt für die 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 expertise in motion control, parts handling, and laser/material interaction. Potomac merged all of these capabilities…
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Werkzeuge für die Lasermikrobearbeitung: Wir sehen das Licht!

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…
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Potomacs neue ISO 9001:2008 & 13485:2003 Zertifizierung bestätigt unsere kundenorientierte Philosophie

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…
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UMBC-Kunststudent entwirft "Weg in die Zukunft"-Wandbild für neue Potomac bwtech@UMBC Forschungs- und Technologieparkanlage

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…
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Unterstützung der Oregon State University bei der Verbesserung eines Strahlungsdetektors durch Laser-Mikrobearbeitung

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…
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Potomac erweitert seine 3D-Druck-Servicekapazitäten nach einer Schulung im Werk von 3D Systems

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…
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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, business owners, artists – actually anyone interested in Digital Fabrication – learn about the power…
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Unterstützung des CRESST-Zentrums der NASA an der UMBC bei der Erforschung der Weiten des Universums

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 funding from the Space Agency, and is home to several research centers that are a…
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UMBC-Präsident Freeman Hrabowski und Baltimore County Executive besuchen neue Potomac Photonics-Anlage

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 press. We were able to give the group a tour, demonstrating our micro manufacturing and…
