Due to the large numbers of military devices that are produced at this facility, our team adheres to detailed work travelers and comprehensive binders of work instructions to ensure that are all of the devices we manufacture are compliant with strict industry standards, including both military and commercial grades.
While our customers looking for commercial-grade devices do not require the same standard of high-reliability manufacturing processes demanded by military users, all of our high-end crystals, filters and oscillators are made according to the same manufacturing processes, but without the high price tag. For our commercial grade devices, Wi2Wi is an ISO 9001:2008 registered facility that is RoHS* compliant. For our Hi-Rel, military grade products, we are certified to MIL-STD-790 Product Assurance (a QPL listed company). (*RoHS, also known as Lead-Free, stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances.)
Quality assurance standards are applied at every step of the manufacturing processes, from Wi2Wi’s fully ISO / QPL / QML approved incoming raw materials QA cage to the end customer. Our commercial grade, Middleton built products go through the same inspection, handling and process lines as our Hi-Rel devices. Such compliance ensures unparalleled quality and exacting compliance to device specifications for both our commercial and government customers and. All testing is conducted by our highly qualified technicians who have had extensive training and certifications for the tasks they perform. Further, as devices are tested in-house, rather than being sent to out-of-house test subcontractors, our customers save time and money.
ISO 14644-1 & 2, Class 7 (FED-STD-209E), Class 10,000 clean room is located in the middle of our two manufacturing floors. This clean room is vital for the manufacturing of crystal frequency tolerances that produce highly stable devices. And although not a hard requirement for the manufacturing of frequency devices, our clean room ensures the highest level of quality for other commercial procedures such as base plating, plasma cleaning, vacuum sealing, etc.
With Crystal Filters being a large part of Wi2Wi’s overall business, the second manufacturing floor area has dedicated assembly lines and in-depth test systems in place to accommodate not only small, moderate and high volumes of standard types, but also complex multi-pole filters, which are sold to the top names in the NAV/COM, radio and communication industries world-wide.
The equipment in our clean room includes loading and cement stations (manual and automated), Saunders 5600 base platters with plasma cleaning, Crest ultrasonic wash tanks, Saunders 5250 final platters, Samco ozone strip systems, cold weld pre-seal tube ovens, cold weld vacuum sealers, ESP resistance welders and more. As our customers can see, no expense has been spared to make this clean room one of the industry’s best for processing crystals.
The crystal tech room at Wi2Wi has some of the most modern process equipment available, including four-way polishing, Future Fab 2-Station Pre-Wash, Crest 6-Station Automated Wash and SemiTool Spin Dryer systems that are all in compliance ISO and Government standards.
