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Spectrum Control is a leader in the
design, development & manufacture
of custom electronic components and systems.
Integrated Design, Development, and Testing Services
We provide an integrated approach to problem solving by offering our customers consulting, diagnostic testing and design services. We believe that our testing facilities and capabilities exceed those of our major competitors and, accordingly, may give us a competitive advantage. Our engineers typically work closely with customers to develop a product or system design. Although our customers generally provide the initial engineering guidelines for a particular product, our design engineers are often called upon to work together with a customer’s design team to develop a solution. An important part of our solution is ensuring at an early stage, before time and money are spent on manufacturing, that the product design will meet all performance specifications and can be produced efficiently and cost-effectively. Our design engineers include EMI, power, microwave, and sensor specialists. We believe that by integrating our product design and development efforts with those of our customers, we create increased reliance on us and increased incentives to utilize us as a single source strategic supplier.
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Flexible, Low-Cost Production Capabilities
Once a design is completed, we apply our vertically integrated manufacturing processes to produce a solution that meets our customers’ functionality and cost objectives. We maintain a state-of-the-art ceramic production facility in State College, Pennsylvania, with advanced manufacturing equipment primarily designed for the production of specialty ceramic capacitors. These ceramic products are critical components of our Advanced Specialty Products. Our State College facility, along with our extensive ceramic expertise, enables us to maintain short lead times for our signal product prototyping and production orders. We also maintain metal fabrication capabilities with computer numerically controlled (“CNC”) equipment to manufacture the metal utilized in many of our power integrity, microwave, sensors, and power management systems product offerings. By performing the metal fabrication in-house, we are able to shorten the lead time for these product offerings and reduce our overall material costs. Our philosophy of vertical integration, along with utilizing demand flow manufacturing processes, enables us to meet the growing OEM customer demands for flexible production schedules and just-in-time inventories.
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High Quality, High Performance Products
 Our customers demand a high level of quality and performance. We believe we meet our customers’ requirements for high quality products manufactured to increasingly exacting specifications, including performance and quality standards that are set by agencies and other government bodies whose regulations may apply to specific telecommunications or other equipment. We emphasize a quality culture, driving continuous product improvement and a company-wide commitment to quality. As part of our commitment to high quality manufacturing, all of our domestic and foreign manufacturing facilities have achieved and maintain ISO 9001 certification, and we have been approved by defense customers under the requirements of the U.S. military quality system. Most of our manufacturing facilities also have achieved and maintain the automotive industry quality standard of QS 9000.
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Our Markets
Although our components and systems are used in many industries worldwide, our largest individual markets are military/defense and communications equipment which collectively represented approximately 66% of our fiscal 2008 sales. Military/defense applications for our products include secure communications, smart weapons and munitions, countermeasures for improvised explosive devices, radar systems, military vehicles, aircraft, missile defense systems, and simulation equipment. In communications, our products are used in numerous systems including wireless base stations and towers, broadband switching equipment, global positioning systems, Wi-Fi, optical networks, and Internet services. Other significant markets for our products include medical equipment, industrial instrumentation, and commercial aerospace. Automotive represents an emerging market for our products, with significant applications in DC motors, telematics, and electronic safety controls.
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