CONSULTING SERVICES

Aspen Microsystems offers consulting, engineering and instructional services in all aspects of the MEMS, micro-optical, microfluidic and microsystems industries. Decades of experience bringing sophisticated products to market, establishing high-volume manufacturing processes, as well as lower-volume custom production processes, ensures that Aspen Microsystems can help your organization utilize the latest technologies to get the most value from your production investments and to help your people deliver improved quality, higher yields and lower manufacturing costs. Whether it’s upgrading an older assembly process, assessing workflow efficiency or determining root cause for yield loss, Aspen Microsystems will enhance your company’s quality and profitability by improving your product and your process. Broad awareness of equipment suppliers and their products ensures investments are made with long-term objectives in mind. Aspen Microsystems can assist with the technical and business aspects of product planning and can plan the strategic expansion of your product into new markets. If your organization needs to expand their knowledge base in MEMS, microsystems, microfluidic or micro optical markets and technologies, Aspen Microsystems’ “case-study” based class and instructional offerings can easily be tailored to your specific needs.

MANUFACTURING PROCESSES & SYSTEMS

Continuous improvement across all aspects of a company’s operation is crucial in today’s hyper-competitive markets. These improvement opportunities can be found directly on the factory floor through reductions in cycle time, inventory and scrap, through workflow optimization and yield enhancements, as well as streamlining quality and documentation systems. Data collection and statistical process control methods can be developed based on the details of your operation. Aspen Microsystems’ experience from concept and product development to production ensures that every aspect of your operation can be examined to create a prioritized, continuous improvement plan based on creative and practical solutions. Yield can be improved through root cause analysis and cause and corrective actions; production efficiencies can be obtained through data-based statistical process control, work-flow and cycle time analysis, process automation and/or development of custom fixturing and material handling solutions. We have helped many companies evolve their operations to remain competitive, to increase capacity and to streamline the introduction of new products. Let our highly trained staff perform a “fresh eyes review” of your operations to help lower costs in your operations while delivering higher quality with faster cycle times.

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QUALITY SYSTEMS & RELIABILITY

he most successful product development efforts have foundations in effective quality operating systems and reliability planning. Our vast experience in successfully bringing product to market has roots in these disciplines. Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) ensures regulatory requirements are met and statistically-based quality operating systems define and monitor process variables and analyze the data for trends and insights that allow yield objectives to be met and drive improvements. The use of Statistic Process Control (SPC) methods, cause and corrective action efforts, root cause analysis, 8D teams, Design of Experiments (DoE), supplier and incoming material qualification plans can all yield impressive results. Reliability planning usually begins with defining product use profiles, which drive product reliability and useful life objectives. Potential design and process issues are quantified through FMEA efforts, accelerated life tests are developed and a comprehensive product qualification plan is established. Design Verification, Process Validation and Product Qualification plans are outcomes of this effort. This work must all be supported by an efficient and well-designed documentation system that meets regulatory requirements. Aspen Microsystems can help your organization with these disciplines to ensure that business objectives are met through the success of your products.

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CLASSES & 0N-SITE INSTRUCTION

The most valuable asset in any organization is its people. Products, and the technologies behind them, must evolve and stay current to keep pace in today’s rapidly changing world, and a staff with a strong, focused technical foundation is more productive and motivated in their assignments. Aspen Microsystems has developed and taught classes in topics ranging from MEMS products, device design, wafer fabrication technologies, CAD methods, MEMS packaging and assembly processes, MEMS wafer-level packaging, microfluidic packaging, as well as quality and reliability topics as related to MEMS and microsystems. These classes can be adapted to the specific needs of your organization to help grow the knowledge base of your staff and to empower them to leverage the technology in their jobs. Our “case-study” approach is derived from our extensive product development experience. In addition to valuable handouts, classes can be supplemented with an examination of physical examples to provide scale and context for the instructional topics. We can tailor our class offerings to fit half day, full day or multi-day instructional sessions so they meet the needs of your company and your staff.

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