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Holiday Update:
Fiber Optic Center will be closed December 24 and 25. Due to potential early carrier pickups, PLEASE HAVE ALL ORDERS IN BY NOON ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 23.
We will resume our regular business hours on Thursday, December 26.
Fiber Optic Center will be at Photonics West - Schedule your meeting with a member of the FOC team now
Welcome to Technical Horsepower Consulting, LLC. (THC)
THC is an international high technology consulting company incorporated by Wayne Kachmar and built on his 40+ years of optical cable industry experience. Work includes consulting for wire companies adding fiber optics line in their manufacturing, cable companies developing and testing new cable designs and assembly houses determining cable specs or incoming cable quality tests programs.
Additional services include program guidance for certified test houses, optical cable spec requirements, independent outside expert review of cables or installations, optical patent attorney support, independent lab support of environmental chamber time, physical tests etc. and United States cable operation set up consulting (specifically for foreign companies) including but not limited to spec conversion, plant operation set-up, overall equipment and product line evaluation.
Technical Horsepower Consulting for
Facility And Training Services
The quickest way to identify and communicate accurate information
FACILITY REVIEW
Being able to see the entire process from an outside perspective.
Looking at present practices in light of the present state of the art
Evaluating readiness for client audits
Gauging clients' capabilities for adding new processes or products (GAP ANALYSIS)
External Perspective
External comparison of best practices.
Client audit dress rehearsal
Are you using the best process or equipment for the task?
Staff Training and Interaction
Ability to have one on one discussions with multiple team members
Facilitate peer reviews of processes or products
Interactive team training on best practices and demonstrations of different processes.
With over 40 years of fiber optic cable and connector experience and over 100 patents either granted or published. We can provide the necessary creative horsepower to move existing projects to completion as well as lead interactive brainstorming sessions with your creative team to extend the options in developing new concepts into products.
In today’s world a new mousetrap is only as good as the number of customer qualifications it meets. No matter how different or unique a new product is, without compliance to detailed customer performance specifications it still will sit on your shelf. We can help with onsite support of qualification testing, assisting in third party testing and even be onsite to conduct testing with your customer to help smooth out qualification and test issues as they arise.
THC can offer custom tailored training to your staff. This can be in conjunction with an onsite consult for a specific problem or standalone training. When you have new engineering or quality staff, existing training materials may foster many questions that are not answered as new requirements and technology are introduced. THC can offer a mentorship option to you as well. This option can provide a source that is available to quickly add value to your staff bringing new members up to speed on this rapidly changing technology.
Outside services are a quick way to increase project completions but the usual concern of outside services is that the expertise goes away at the end of the project. This is usually true; however, the best possible solution is to embed your own personnel alongside THC’s expert experience. This form of mentorship allows new members of your team to acquire significant experience in purely technical expertise. At the end of the project, you have a valuable new resource that can provide ongoing continuity to the project and has the advantage of training and mentorship from a purely technical perspective. You still retain mentorship of company culture and management practices. In many ways you jumpstart your staff with new input that allows for more cross fertilization of ideas and concepts.
Over 40 years in
optical fiber industry expertise to evaluate
cable and connector design
factory start-ups
US and international locations
RAPID RESPONSE
Immediate response on problem
complete solutions outside perspective
industry experience evaluation
standard operating procedures
staff training
EXPERIENCE
Large and small corporations
individual proprietorships to multinationals continued support
with limited consulting time
start-up, acquisitions, largest global companies
fiber optic cable and assembly
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