Criterion offers a wide variety of fabrication and turn-key sub assembly services including laser welding, ultrasonic welding, and sub assembly services that can lower overall product costs. By leveraging our specially designed automated laser welding process for example, we can eliminate components such as gaskets or O-rings. Our assembly capabilities allow us to provide our customers with complete assemblies that can include the plastic dome, the trim ring and other housing accessories.
This value added service can then allow us to ship product directly to our customers' distribution sites. This eliminates customer scrap and handling costs. Our turn- key assemblies also reduce the need to track multiple SKU's - further reducing inventory handling costs.
We are proud to offer several, unique assembly methods that meet IP66, IP54, NEMA 4 and other environmental requirements.
Laser Welding
We have designed our laser welding process to allow us to help customers eliminate the need for gaskets, o-rings, Loctite and other hardware items while providing a higher quality product at a lower cost. We use a custom laser welding system to permanently join materials using the radiation from a focused, energy-dense, beam of infrared light. This non-contact welding process minimizes thermal and mechanical stresses, and provides an extremely small heat affected zone, thus ensuring that components are exposed to the least hostile welding environment possible.
Ultrasonic Welding
Like laser welding, our ultrasonic welding process allows us to help customers eliminate the need for gaskets, o-rings, loctite and other hardware items while providing a higher quality product at lower costs. We offer programmable ultrasonic welding for joining a wide variety of plastics.
Mechanical Assembly
Our turn-key assembly services are performed by highly trained and skilled operators. These services can range from simple assemblies with minimum hardware items to more complex assemblies requiring a greater amount of hardware items such as trim rings, UV cured adhesives, seals, o-rings and more.