About DCA

ABOUT DCA
  • Woman owned small business
  • Privately held corporation, Majority stock holder Martha Richardson Minority stock holder Paul Richardson.
  • Incorporated in 1982, acquired in 1999
  • 14,000 square foot facility in Hampstead NH
  • ISO 9000: 1000 registered
  • Services provided include, transformers, circuit cards, assemblies, cables, wire harnesses, and box build assemblies
FOCUS
  • Unequaled customer satisfaction
  • Prototype/Repair team ready on a 24 hour notice for rapid prototyping of new products and re-work of circuit card assemblies
  • Small/Medium production runs turn-key or consignment kits
  • Transformers from 1 to 12,000 a year
  • Cables/Harnesses from 1 to 1000 per month capability
  • Box builds from commercial and government partners
MANUFACTURING CAPABILITY
TRANSFORMERS

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  • Ferrite cores
  • Cut cores
  • Toroids
  • Laminations
  • Custom magnetic windigs
  • Open style toroids, series regulator inductors, output filtering chokes
  • Ferrite EE core construction
  • Ferrite E core construction
CIRCUIT CARD ASSEMBLIES

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  • SMT technology, single and double sided
  • Mixed technology, single and double sided
  • Through-hole technology and through-hole to SMT
  • Engineering design, and circuit card layout
  • Component selection
  • Legacy production using lead based solder
  • Design for manufacturability (DFM) and design for testing (DFT)
WIRE HARNESS ASSEMBLY

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  • Cable harnesses and card sets
  • Wire leads and hardware
  • Labeling and testing
  • Electro-Mechanical assembly
BUILD BOX ASSEMBLIES

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  • Electrical control panel and boxes
  • Power supply and audio boxes
  • Electrical and electronic enclosures
  • Switch panels and control consoles
  • Electronic sub-racks
  • Equipment controllers
  • Electric instrumentation
  • Complete product assembly
  • Purchasing design and distrubution
ENGINEERING
  • Printed circuit boards designed for manufacturability to reduce opportunities for defects, and to minimize manufacturing costs.
  • Schematic compatibility with many packages
  • Development of production optimum penalization
  • Packaging design assistance
  • Conversion of through hole to SMT
  • Reverse engineering of old design
  • RoHS conversion and engineering

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TESTING
  • Can write test plans and do qualification testing
  • EMI testing
  • Temperature testing
  • HALT
  • HASS
  • Life testing
  • Shock and vibration testing
  • ESS testing
MANUFACTURING

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  • Prototype, low volume to full production
  • MRP manufacturing software
  • Transformer and coil winding in house
  • Stencil printer
  • SMT component placement machines
  • Convection reflow oven
  • Aqueous cleaning system
  • ESD protection with humuididy control
  • Solders certified to J-STD-001
  • Statistical Process Control
  • Manufacturing personnel certified to J-STD-001
  • Through hole, surface mount, soldering, and rework training in house
  • IPC-610 certified trainer and several specialists

 

QUALITY ASSURANCE
  • Quality system based on ISO9001-2008
  • ITAR registered
  • In process inspection along with 100% final electrical and hi-pot testing
  • Thorough contract and specification review prior to release to engineering
  • Qualified to MIL-STD-810, altitude, humidity, salt fog, dust (fire and sand) explosive atmosphere, immersion, shock, vibration, solar radiation, Halt, Hass, MTBF. Numbers, de-rating to NAVSO P-3641A
  • Certifications / Standards include: MIL-STD-810, 461, 51 0-704, 1399 MIL-PRF-27, VDE, TUV
  • Environmental screening for production including vibration and temperature cycling
  • Calibration of test equipment and measurement equipment per ANSI/NCSLZ-541-1-1994 traceable to N.I.S.T.

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