Customer Solutions: The FOC Difference

Fiber Optic Center is more than just a distributor

Select Your Equipment, Material and Process Partner Wisely

Assuming the equipment is sufficient to make quality assemblies, it is the process that determines whether the cable assemblies produced, or fiber drawn on this equipment meet your specifications and are shipped on time to your customer, or if they require re-work or even worse, scrapping and starting over.

Equipment Selection

FOC may be the only company in the world that sells and delivers every piece of equipment needed for the automated production of fiber optic cable assemblies, also called patch cords: cable cutting and fiber stripping equipment, metered epoxy dispensing systems and curing ovens, laser cleaving systems, polishing machines and plates, and instruments for all three kinds of testing: interferometer for geometry, microscopes and software for visual inspection, and sources, power meters and switches for insertion loss and back-reflection (bi-directionally if required). Partner with SG Controls of Cambridge, England, the leading manufacturer of specialty fiber making equipment and systems, we provide full turnkey optical fiber manufacturing facilities for specialty fiber and fiber making process procedures.

Material Selection

FOC carries all of the hand tools, supplies and consumables needed for production and testing. Technical experts on staff partner with customers to select the correct epoxy, polishing lapping films, cleaning supplies, cassettes and optical coatings.

Process and Set Up Support

The difference between hitting the ground running and shipping product once the equipment is set up and in operation, or missing and having to figureout what needs to change in order to make a quality product and doing it right the second, third, fourth or more time, is major. Losses include connectors and cable; epoxy and polishing film and other consumables; labor; and equipment that is being depreciated but not producing income. Missed deliveries and returned product usually result in a loss of confidence on the part of the customer, or worse: the loss of the order and maybe the customer. FOC is a partner, after the sale, to ensure that success.

The FOC Difference

FOC also carries all of the hand tools as well as consumables needed for production and testing: epoxy, polishing films, cleaning supplies and cassettes.

“One extremely important item missing from the distribution details is the know-how, the actual procedures and processes that go with each piece of equipment… that is the FOC difference”

There is one extremely important item that is missing from the details above: that is the know-how, the actual procedures and processes that go with each piece of equipment. Assuming the equipment is sufficient to make quality assemblies, it is the process that determines whether the cable assemblies produced on this equipment meet your specifications and are shipped on time to your customer, or if they require re-work or even worse, scrapping and starting over.

The difference between hitting the ground running and shipping product once the equipment is set up and in operation, or missing and having to figure out what needs to change in order to make a quality product and doing it right the second, third, fourth or more time, is major. Losses include connectors and cable; epoxy and polishing film and other consumables; labor; and equipment that is being depreciated but not producing income. Missed deliveries and returned product usually result in a loss of confidence on the part of the customer, or worse: the loss of the order and maybe the customer.