Mission
Cryogenic Control Systems, Inc. (Cryo-con) is a manufacturer of
electronic equipment for both laboratory and industrial process
control applications. Our mission is to provide the cryogenic industry
with high quality, innovative and technically superior instrumentation.
Technical Strengths
Cryo-con's core technical strength is the development and manufacture
of cryogenic instrumentation. This often requires the design of
unusual circuits that work with the exotic sensors found in some
cryogenic systems. However, much more importantly, our products
must be made to operate in extremely low noise environments without
corrupting any measure of overall system performance.
Cryogenic techniques are frequently used to lower electrical noise
in environments where extreme sensitivity is required. If system
instrumentation couples electrical noise into such an environment,
even at an extremely low level, measurement data can easily be corrupted
or destroyed. Electronics designed primarily for room-temperature
applications are frequently unsuitable for cryogenic use.
Every Cryo-con product is designed for extremely low noise cryogenic
environments. Therefore, the minimization and management of electrical
noise is a key element of our design methodology. This requires
extensive experience in the use of modern components that must be
applied with tested and proven noise reduction techniques.
Cryo-con’s development staff has worked together as a team for
over 15 years. Our experience with dilution refrigerators and many-channel
SQUID systems is leveraged into our products; which we believe are
the lowest noise instruments on the market today.
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is used to significantly improve
performance in a wide range of applications. In Cryo-con’s products,
DSP is used to improve measurement accuracy and control stability
well beyond limits imposed by electronic hardware. Examples include
the signal decimation, lock-in detection and Cubic Spline algorithms
used in temperature measurement as well as the signal dithering
and enhanced PID used in our control loops.
DSP is used to provide our instruments with 'simply smarter' operation
including Adaptive Cryocooler Signature Subtraction and Linear-Mean-Squared
based autotuning.
Business Model
Cryo-con's modern and efficient business model ensures that we
will be a sustained, reliable and quality supplier to our growing
customer base.
State of the art Computer Aided Design (CAD) software is used extensively
throughout design, development and manufacturing.
CAD systems directly generate all tooling required for the fabrication
and assembly of our circuit boards. Surface mounted electronic components
are used so that computer-vision based machines can assemble these
circuit boards automatically, thus ensuring high accuracy.
CAD systems are also interfaced directly to our Material Resource
Planning software. This integrates material requirements with sales
forecasts in order to ensure that we can reliably ship products
against customer requirements.
Quality
Testing and calibration functions are highly automated to ensure
product quality. Each instrument is subjected to Burn-In under full
operating conditions. Final testing is computerized and uses the
instrument's internal loop-back circuits to ensure 100% coverage
of all circuit paths.
Calibration is performed using NIST traceable standards. A complete
calibration report and a certificate of traceability are shipped
with each instrument.
Cryo-con's state of the art designs and sophisticated computerized
operational systems result in cost-effective, high quality products. |
