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Over the decades that ACT has been designing and manufacturing custom AC-DC, DC-DC and High Voltage power supplies, ACT has strategically invested in manufacturing capabilities, as discussed below. This has enabled ACT to achieve a high level of vertical integration. All of ACT’s engineering and manufacturing resources are located within a single, recently expanded, 62,000 sq. ft. facility.

However, our greatest capability is the experience and skill contained within ACT’s employees. ACT's skilled and experienced staff, many of whom have been with ACT since it's inception in 1981, provide an invaluable level of expertise to utilize the manufacturing capabilities contained within ACT.

• Machining and sheet metal fabrication

• Plating and painting

• Single and double sided printed circuit board fabrication

• Magnetic assembly

• Automated printed circuit board assembly

• Electrical and mechanical assembly

• Potting, staking and conformal coating

• Electrical testing

• Temperature, altitude, humidity and vibration testing

Experience has repeatedly demonstrated that this vertical integration enhances ACT’s ability to;

• Significantly reduce development time.

• Be flexible.

• Respond rapidly.

• Maintain direct control of production capacity and priorities.

• Achieve and maintain high quality levels.

• Reduce costs.

When increased capacity is required for larger production orders ACT has developed close relationships with outside vendors. These vendors provide additional capacity when needed to support production deliveries.
 

Fabrication

Machining
ACT currently has multiple numerically controlled CNC machines that can rapidly and cost effectively produce a wide range of machined parts. During the development process our engineering department can produce and send a 3D AutoCAD model of a part to our metal shop and within hours machining of this part can begin. In production these machines can be operated 24/7 in order to maintain flow of material into the production line.

Sheet Metal
For fabricating sheet metal and other flat parts ACT utilizes a computer controlled water jet cutter. The water jet cutter can be used to cut complex patterns in aluminum, steel, copper, fiberglass and many other materials. Being computer controlled our engineering department can send a CAD drawing into the metal shop and within hours a part can be fabricated.

Plating and Painting
Many of ACT’s products require a chemical or paint finish. ACT can apply a tin plate to our steel parts and yellow iridite finish to our aluminum parts. Our paint room can apply a wide variety of paints and colors per our customer’s unique requirements.

Printed Circuit Boards
ACT as the capability to produce single and double sided unplated thru-hole printed circuit boards. Our CAD department produces the photo images that are used to etch copper clad material. With this capability printed circuit boards can be fabricated within hours of the design being finalized. ACT has developed excellent relationships with outside vendors to produce multilayer, plated thru-hole, printed circuit boards.

Assembly

Magnetic Assembly
ACT can wind all the magnetic components designed by our engineering staff. These included toroidal inductors and transformers along with bobbin wound transformers and chokes. Relationships with external vendors allow ACT to expand capacity when required.

Printed Circuit Board Assembly
Based on the type and quantity of the printed circuit board assembly ACT has a number of different methods to load parts on a printed circuit board.

• Automatic surface mount pick and place

• Semi-automatic thru-hole board loading

• Hand placement

• Reflow and hand soldering

Our operators are trained in to solder at the highest quality levels. Production capacity can be increased by utilizing outside vendors.

Electrical and Mechanical Assembly
In order to insure the highest quality levels, 100% of the final assembly work is performed within ACT. Production units are built using Lean Manufacturing cells in order to optimize the manufacturing process and reduce overall costs.

Engineering units are assembled using some of our highest skilled personnel working in an environment that provides the ability to achieve rapid response times.

Testing

Electrical Testing
Each unit produced is 100% tested to insure that it meets the customer’s electrical and mechanical requirements. Test data is recorded and stored for each unit providing a well documented test history. Every unit is burned in for a minimum of 8 hours and many units are burned in using a combination of temperature cycling and random vibration.

Temperature, Vibration, Altitude and Humidity Testing
ACT has a vast number of temperature chambers that are used to burnin the units and to perform engineering level testing. Many of these temperature chambers have been equipped with the capability to use liquid nitrogen to provide very fast temperature transitions. Additionally, ACT has two vibration tables that are capable of sinusoidal and random vibration profiles. This vibration capability is used for Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) and for engineering level testing. When needed ACT has the capability to perform temperature / altitude and temperature / humidity testing.

All this vertical integration is available for your custom power supplies needs. ACT has been developing rugged power supplies for military applications for over 25 years and is waiting to solve your power supply problems.

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