Pole/Zero Facilities
Pole/Zero has an 87,000+ square foot facility, which provides space for Engineering Design Labs, Production and Environmental Test Facilities. Pole/Zero has deployed an Integrated Enterprise System to support each of these primary disciplines.
Engineering
Pole/Zero’s Engineering Design Labs have capabilities including:
- Multiple RF Screen Rooms
- Full Complement of Test Equipment (DC – 3GHz) including Network, Spectrum, and Modulation Analyzers; Signal and Function Generators
- Eagleware GENESYS™RF/Microwave Design Tool together with SPECTRASYS™, an RF architecture simulator and EMPOWER/ML™, a multi-level planar 3D EM simulator
- MathCAD13 for circuit simulation and analysis
- Mentor Graphics DxDesigner Schematic Capture & Circuit Board Layout Tool
- Autodesk Inventor® Series including:
- Autodesk Inventor® software for 2D/3D design and documentation
- AutoCAD®
Mechanical for productive 2D drawing and detailing
- Autodesk® Vault to synchronize your design efforts
Production
- Conceptual design through production
- Tyco QSV1 High Precision SMT Assemblers
- Heller 1088EXL Total Forced Convection SMT Reflow System
- Yes Tech YTV-2050 Automated Optical Inspection unit
- MPM AP25 Automatic Vision Aligned Paste Printer
- Workmanship to IPC-A-610 Class 3 Quality System
- ISO 9001:2000 with AS9100:2004 Rev B Certified (Certificate Number 3465)
- Dedicated to providing defect free products on time to internal and external customers
- Customer satisfaction, quality, and continuous improvement are the personal responsibility of each employee
Environmental Test Facility 
- Custom developed test fixtures for automated testing of customer units
- Temperature/Humidity chambers capable of thermal cycling units under test from -73°C to +175°C. Pole/Zero currently has multiple thermal chambers including the TestEquity 115, TestEquity 1007C, Russells F-18, Russells RB-32 and Russells RDV-32 chambers
- MB Dynamics C10E, LDS V830 and V850 Electrodynamic Vibration Tables for Shock, Random, & Sinusoidal Testing Cycles
Corporate IT Infrastructure
- Integrated Enterprise System
- Exact Software's Macola Progression Series Business Management Software deployed across Engineering, Accounting, Finance, HR and Manufacturing
- Pole/Zero Intranet (Integrated Engineering & Manufacturing Information Network)
- Online viewing of drawings, parts lists, schematics, and ECN’s available to Manufacturing, Engineering, and Procurement
- Pole/Zero Local Area Network including redundant Microsoft Windows 2003 Servers, XP Workstations, Linux Firewall/Email Server and High Speed Fiber Optic Communications linking the Pole/Zero buildings
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