Columbia Tech provides the highest degree of manufacturing excellence for customers seeking turnkey manufacturing and global fulfillment services. Our business model contains a unique blend of front-end DFM and NPI services combined with worldwide purchasing leverage and customized manufacturing programs renowned for extreme flexibility and attentiveness to detail. 

Coghlin Companies occupies over 135,000 square feet of space at our manufacturing and engineering campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.  Existing design and integration programs taking place at Columbia Tech incorporate:

·         Electro-mechanical Assembly                              

·         Cable and Harness Assembly (electric and air)    

·         Printed Circuit Boards (SMT, Thru-Hole and BGA)

·         Pneumatic and Air Interface Assembly

·         Power Distribution and Controls

·         Software Integration and Chip Programming

·         Mechanical and Precision Machine Component Assembly

·         Electronic Assembly and Box-Build

Rack Integration and Total Machine Build

Our Practical Approach

 

Coghlin Companies Inc. is a total turnkey operation, and with our customers, we take the following approach:

 

·        Review existing products

·        Evaluate functionality

·        Initiate suggestions for cost and functionality improvement

·        Implement customer approved design changes

·        Develop manufacturing process documentation 

·        Set up flexible manufacturing cells                                      

·        Procure material                                                                                                                                                           

·        Design functional test equipment and procedures (if required)

·        Assemble

·        Inspect and Test

·        Deliver just in time (locally or worldwide)

·        Adhere to stringent revision control and serialization requirements

·        Repeat Cost Reduction Initiatives 

Diverse Customer Base

Industries actively being served by the Columbia Tech organization include homeland security, environmental, telecommunications, semiconductor equipment, alternative energy, automated assembly, inspection, test, medical instruments, pharmaceutical, storage, wireless, food service, robotic, automation, military, vending and xray.

Certifications and Registrations

Coghlin Companies has experienced significant growth while maintaining a sterling reputation of providing exceptional quality workmanship, service and flexibility. We are ISO 9001 & ISO13485:2003 Registered, UL Listed, TUV Certified, CSA and CE Approved, and we have experience in the areas of NSF Compliance.

Comprehensive Test Services

Columbia Tech is fully equipped and staffed to provide functional test services to verify computer control functions, power delivery and distribution, and mechanical operation. We are prepared to design, engineer and build specialized test equipment as well as use standard and customer-supplied testing gear. In addition, our services include burn-in, extended cycle testing and MTBF testing.

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RoHS Compliance

The Columbia Tech Lead-Free Design & PCB Conversion Services Program provides customers with a product life-cycle compliance strategy and a practical plan to assure compliance with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive. Our services include an audit/verification study of your supply chain, inventory and new designs. We help secure RoHS-compliant components throughout the supply chain and a verification that outsourced electronics are RoHS compliant.

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