About Us / 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
• IFS Applications utilizing, Financials, Human Resources, Sales & Support, Engineering, Manufacturing and Distribution components
• 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