View Products & Services on Display at Atlantic Design & Manufacturing Show 2009

Accurate Forming

Booth 238

Accurate Forming produces high quality deep draw stampings and assemblies. Recognized as a leader in the art and science of deep draw metal forming, its products can be found in medical, writing instruments, aerospace, automotive, ordnance and industrial OEM's products. By applying their expertise in metallurgy and manufacturing systems, they have extended their manufacturing processes to include cost reduction engineering services, high speed progressive die stamping and automation systems for secondary and assembly operations. Accurate Forming's in-house finishes are sought after for their unique aesthetic appearance and resilience and include polishing, chrome plating, lacquer and powder coating.

Booth 547

American Swiss Products is a supplier of custom, Swiss-turned precision components. Providing industries such as Medical, Dental, Electronic, Aerospace and more. Offering a wide spectrum of precision machined products along with numerous finishing operations, allows them to provide customers with the highest quality product, complete per print requirements. Diameters 1.25" or less. Tolerances +/- .00015. They know how important delivery schedules are, so they carefully monitor all orders and keep customers up to date on delivery statuses. American Swiss Products looks ahead at machine schedules and material availability to help their customer determine the best time for reorders.

Woman Owned, ISO 9001:2000

Booth 274

Antron Engineering & Machine Co. now has 3D printing capabilities in ABS plastic. ABS 3D prints can withstand rigorous functional testing, and ABS is the material choice by leading manufacturers. They now provide a way to produce a customer's prototype while providing low cost, quick turnaround, various colors, product mockups, and confidentiality. Applications include automotive, consumer products, packaging, aerospace, medical, environmental, and military. Imagine showing a functional model to a new prospect, associates, even the Board of Directors.

Booth 426

Bleck Design Group combines industrial design and engineering for seamless product development from concept to production. Visionary medical device, business equipment, and consumer product companies hire them to create iconic designs that build strong brands. They are experts at optimizing ergonomics to transform complex technology into a simple user experience and delivering thorough engineering documentation for efficient global manufacturing. While they have earned over twenty design excellence awards - more important to them is the longevity of their designs in the market and their clients' satisfaction. Stop by their booth to discuss all product development needs and see the quality of their work.

Booth 407

Now there's room in all customers' budgets and on their desks for 3D Printing! Desktop Personal 3D Printer under $15k!
Affordable, no-hassle 3D printing that brings ideas to life right at all customers' desks. The uPrint personal 3D Printer builds durable ABS models for visualization, discussion and testing. Building 3D models at all customers' desks is as easy as clicking the print button.
See a live demo at booth 407!

Booth 262

With over 35 years of blow molding plastics experience Confer Plastics can assist customers in taking their product from design to completion. Confer Plastics specializes in medium to very large parts and also offers complete secondary operations right up to packaging the product for customers.

Booth 258

ElectroCraft announces the release of the new ElectroCraft RapidPowerTM Size 17, a Brushless DC Motor that provides exceptional performance in a small package. Other features include, exceptional torque to volume and price ratios, low cogging torque for very smooth operation, high efficiency for cooler operation, wide speed range, and a wide variety of stack lengths to match motor package size to required performance

Booth 471

In an effort to better care for their medical device clients Empire has expanded its clean room capacity at its 42,000 square foot headquarters in Rochester, NY. The expanded clean room is an addition to the existing class 10,000 clean room that is used for manufacturing and assembling surgical instruments. Empire will utilize this new expanded clean room to support European and United States based companies with programs ranging from medical disposable packaging to medical devices that will require secondary operations and assembly.

Booth 249

In a continuing effort to move towards a green future, IDEC has produced a revolutionary series of LED light strips. With a minimum lifespan of 40,000 hours and only using one-third the energy of fluorescent lights, LUMIFA LED light strips are the smart way to save time and energy. With average daily use these lights can remain super-bright for as long as 15 years, more than 5 times longer than fluorescent lights. This new level of performance reflects the many improvements made with LED technology.

Booth 356

Invetech offers specialist instrumentation and custom automation services, delivering design and development, and contract instrument manufacturing services to clinical diagnostics, medical devices, life sciences, drug discovery and pharmaceutical companies, including 7 of the world's top 10 clinical diagnostic companies.

Invetech assisted in the design and development of the MDEA 2009 winning TearLab™ Osmolarity System, a revolutionary point-of-care in-vitro lab-on-a-chip diagnostic for eye care. TearLab won the award for innovation, user related design, product features, and engineering that improves the manufacturer's profitability.

TearLab is the first technology that quantitatively and objectively measures Dry Eye Disease in a doctor's office in seconds.

Booth 459

Kamek Inc: ISO 9001, ISO/TS 16949, AS 9100B certified Plastic Injection company servicing customers worldwide.

Their expertise: high precision molding, insert molding, micro molding, reel to reel molding and overmolding.

Their turnkey injection molding solutions: Product design assistance, Prototyping, Mold Design fabrication, Production and Secondary added-value operations (ultrasonic welding, heat staking, printing, riveting, painting and assembly)

Booth 223

High Production Precision Stamping

Small Holes(.008-.012")straight or in angle on thin stainless steel strip with geometric positioning and formed, All with the state of the art technologies to
maintain CPK level for high volume production and the sample of the custom development parts with QC certification of TS 16949, ISO 9001 and 14001.
All toolings are made in house.

Milling and Drilling machined parts operation are also available both HQ in Japan and the subsidiary in Thailand.

Booth 212

Konica Minolta Sensing Americas announces the addition of the Range 5 non-contact 3D digitizer to its product offerings. Modeled from the highly successful Range 7 digitizer, the Range 5 gives the performance expected from Konica Minolta Sensing at a very affordable price point.

The Range 5 fills the need for a scanner at a price point between the Vivid 9i and Range 7 scanners. Scanning of dark or reflective surfaces with high accuracy and very little to no surface prep is what sets the Range 5 apart from other 3D scanners. The Range 5 will be shipping July 2009.

Booth 212

Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. the worldwide leader in the industrial measurement of color, light and shape, announces the addition of a "dark surface mode" to its Range 7 non contact 3D digitizer. The dark surface mode function enables the measurement of objects with reflectance as low as 2.5% without requiring the use of special darkrooms or spraying of the object, achieving the industry's top level low reflectance performance. With the addition of the dark mode function, ultra-low reflectance surfaces (dark objects) can be measured without being sprayed, measurement inaccuracies caused by uneven thickness of the sprayed layer can be eliminated.

Booth 308

Manage all improvement projects with one application that gives the tools and guidance needed to deliver results.

Customers can modify the tools and create templates that standardize their company's approach to quality improvement.

They can also monitor the progress and success of their entire program with the Quality Companion Dashboard, a free utility included with Quality Companion.

Take the tour on the Minitab website.

Booth 259

As specialists in deep drawn enclosures, National Manufacturing Company has been producing precision deep drawn metal components for its global customer base in medical, electronic, battery, military, aerospace, satellite industries for over half a century. A dedicated medical manufacturing facility of its own serves the unique requirements of the medical community. National can deep draw custom enclosures to customers' specifications in every drawable material, including ferrous and nonferrous, titanium, hasteloy, nickel, kovar, inconel, mumetal, monel, and tantalum. National designs and builds its own high-grade tooling to ensure precision tolerances and consistent part quality. National will incorporate their existing tooling library to meet customers' project needs and produce economically high quality enclosures.

Booth 415

NB's Slide Way NV and NVT type bearings incorporates STUDROLLER, which has been developed based upon a new concept. This next-generation, linear motion bearings possess smoothness and high accuracy afforded by completely eliminating slippage between the rollers and the raceway surface. This system permits to operate in all orientations and positions.

Booth 454

New Jersey Precision Technologies, Inc., the leader in medical device EDMing, is pleased to announce their new Internal-Drive-Feature EDM System for EDM machining of any shape in screws, bolts or drives. They can EDM blind shapes such as hex, hexalobular (Torx™), squares, or any other shape to customers' standards or ISO standards. Their precision multi-up part holder & electrode holders are tooled for over one-thousand screw & shape configurations already! Chances are that the screws or parts and internal drive features are in their tooling library and can be EDMed immediately. Of course, the benefits of EDMed internal drive features are burr-free, consistently sized shapes.

Booth 406

Paramount Industries, Inc. offers a comprehensive range of product development services unsurpassed in quality, skill, and experience, thus earning a global reputation for inspired, innovative, and intelligent design, development, and manufacturing services through three divisions: Paramount PDS, Definitive Design, and TTM Technologies. Paramount Industries allow their customers the ability to bring their idea to fruition under one corporate umbrella: Product designing and engineering (Definitive Design); product development by applying the most advanced rapid manufacturing and prototyping technologies available (Paramount PDS); and off shore manufacturing affordable for even the most budget conscious during times of economic instability (TTM Technologies).

Booth 359

Servometer/PMG, LLC manufactures precision electrodeposited miniature metal bellows & bellows assemblies, bellows-type flexible shaft couplings, gold-plated bellows electrical contacts, and light weight, structurally rugged electroforms.

Servometer bellows are flexible, leak tight and can be made down to a diameter of .020 inches (.5 mm). Standard material is electrodeposited nickel alloy, but copper, silver, gold or combinations thereof are also available.

Depending on the application, Servometer bellows function as hermetic seals, volume compensators, pressure and temperature sensors, valve seals, flexible couplings, vibration dampers and self-aligning miniature electrical contacts.

Booth 233

Smalley Steel Ring Company now features a new series of smaller, standard size Crest-to-Crest® wave springs. Stock sizes are available in carbon and 17-7 stainless steel in sizes beginning at just 1/4". Crest-to-Crest springs reduce assembly size by up to 50% maintaining the same amount of force and deflection as a regular coiled spring. Smalley offers over 4,000 standard wave springs in 17-7 stainless steel or carbon steel. The New Crest-to-Crest series are available in dimensions from 1/4" to 2" from stock. Specials are available from .200" to 90" with No-Tooling Costs™.

Booth 251

Arcolectric temperature monitor is a snap-in device dedicated to clearly indicate that refrigeration temperatures are within safe limits. It operates like a standard neon indicator, giving visible on/off status indication. Normal operation shows continuous Blue LED illumination while the monitored temperature is within the safe range between lower and upper limits. Should the measured temperature fall outside of the safe range, the LED illumination changes color to flashing Red if the temperature is too hot, or flashing Blue if it is too cool.

Booth 251

TURCK introduces its new 4-wire PROFINET cordset line, providing plug-and-play connectivity for applications using PROFINET protocols. PROFINET, the fastest industrial Ethernet I/O network, is compatible with existing fieldbus systems and the only network that can accomplish a line topology — especially ideal for long conveyor systems. The PROFINET cordset line offers both M12 Ethernet D-coded and RJ45 connector options, allowing users the option to mix-and-match any connector combination to meet unique application needs. Cable meets IEC 11801:2002 Cat 5 and TIA 568B: 2001 Cat 5e requirements.

Booth 251

New NP01 Switches from NKK are Smooth to the Touch. Utilizing a single LED it offers full illumination in red, green or amber, or a bicolor LED with a red/green combination. Caps are 12mm square and can be specified with clear lenses, matching color or white diffusers. Gold plated contacts provide extremely reliable logic-level switching. Engineers have the choice of high (2.5N) or standard (1.5N) operating force. Smooth touch actuation is achieved through a patent pending, uniquely designed mechanical silicon rubber structure.

Booth 251

EAO Series 56 is a rugged pushbutton that resists abusive operation. Behind the lens of this pushbutton is a snap-action switching system that protects itself from damage. It guarantees that a stable force is always applied to the switch unit independent of the one exerted on the lens. It is IP67 rated, tamper-proof and will resist abusive operation. It has excellent tactile feedback even when pressed at the edge. This feature is clearly advantageous for operators young and old and is beneficial for disabled users.

Booth 251

NKK new CWSC switch has a Labor-Saving Snap-in Mounting that eases installation and lowers assembly cost.
Available with full face, bright LED illumination in red, green or amber these miniature NKK switches are uniquely designed to have current ratings of 9A @ 125V AC or 6A @ 250V AC in a compact body. The long mechanical life of 30,000 operations minimum is made possible by the quick-make, quick-break characteristic of the contact mechanism which limits arcing. The CWSC series is UL Recognized and CSA Certified.

Booth 251

EAO 10 Colors in ONE illuminated Pushbutton
EAO's Series 84 PCB range of pushbuttons and indicators opens up new and previously unimagined possibilities for illuminated control panels. A wide spectrum of different colors can be generated from a single switch by utilizing the possibility to combine up to 10 different colored LEDs in one unit: eight around the lens and one bi-color in the middle. When connected, the LEDs can be programmed to change color, pulse, flash or illuminate the edge.

Booth 423

Tekscan, Inc. is the leading manufacturer of complete force and pressure measurement solutions. Accurate, simple to use, and extremely cost-effective, Tekscan's sensors and systems are used in an ever-expanding array of applications in industry, medicine and dentistry. The I-Scan® System is a versatile, complete pressure measurement kit, utilizing Tekscan's patented, thin-film, matrix-based array sensors. The FlexiForce® division provides economical force measurement solutions to OEM and consumer markets. The company's newly released wireless ELFTM provides immediate access to load measurement data while eliminating cumbersome wires and enabling your computer to quickly capture and store that data from up to 50 feet away.

Booth 201

Ultraflex International Inc. offers LCD touch screen solutions. Easiest solution for adding a LCD Touch Screen to your product. The LCD evaluation kit makes it easy for engineers to design their own control boards and provides a quick low cost method for customers that require a "drop in" solution.

Web: http://www.xcentricmold.com

Booth 445

Plastic injection molding and quick turn molds as quick as 3-20 days. No geometry limitations and tight tolerances are not a problem. The company's in house services include rapid prototyping, mold making, design and engineering support, injection molding using all electric molding machines for short runs and low volume production parts. Xcentric mold & engineering is a ISO9001:2000 certified company. They have a strong commitment to quality and service at competitive prices.

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