Facilities

BCS Machine Company, Inc. maintained a leading edge environment for advanced orthopedic medical device manufacturing and design consultation services. This environment included a modern CNC infrastructure, an ISO registered Quality Management System, interactive engineering support systems, including the latest in computer-aided design and manufacturing software, as well as an advanced virtualized information, network, and storage infrastructure.

A successful implementation of orthopedic designs from alpha-stage development prototypes through final product launch required the ability to conceptualize innovative machining approaches when using complex multi-axis CNC machines. BCS embraced this ideology and had the CNC infrastructure in place to meet the exacting customer demands for even the most complicated designs.

Internally, our customer engineering and design support was continually evolving through innovative machining facilities that utilize different solid modeling, simulation, and feature based machining (FBM) techniques within the orthopedic space. A partial facility list outlining many of the capabilities found at BCS is provided below.

Partial Facilities List

BCS also maintained a variety of manual machining equipment such as engine lathes and vertical mills. Parts cleaning and passivation was an in-house function that used ultra-sonic cleaning and a passivation station. Hand finishing of parts was accomplished using a mixture of Trinco dry blast cabinets, vibratory tumblers, Baldor belt sanders, buffers, and finishing wheels depending on the specifications. Welding and grinding were performed on-site using a Tig welding system and a fully automatic surface grinder with magnetic chuck, respectively. BCS also maintained a range of miscellaneous equipment required for day-to-day operations including cut-off saws, vertical saws, and a hydraulic press. External services such as vacuum heat treating, electro-plating, anodizing, chrome coating etc., were contracted with highly respected local and national firms known throughout the medical device community.

Manufacturing complex orthopedic devices generated vast amounts of critical data during all phases of the product manufacturing life-cycle. Computer-aided design and manufacturing, shop floor processes, quality and inspection, and front office business activities all used a highly efficient and well integrated information architecture. That is why in addition to a modern CNC environment, BCS also maintained an advanced information technology (IT) architecture that was highly capable of processing, storing and securing the large amounts of data created by these uniquely complex orthopedic devices.