Category Archive: Capabilities

Start to Finish with Technicon Acoustics

A common problem for many OEM’s is excessive noise or heat that needs to be controlled. As a leading manufacturer of acoustic and thermal solutions, we are experts in creating solutions that absorb or block unwanted noise and heat. Technicon Acoustics is dedicated to not only finding the perfect solution for your product, but also to ensuring the entire process from development to delivery is pleasant and stress free. We provide quick lead times that meet your needs, expedite urgent orders, and find cost-effective and long-lasting solutions by understanding your needs and constraints.

Technicon Acoustics supports your end-to-end product development needs. We ensure your satisfaction with the ordering process, material, manufacturing, and delivery of the final product.

Walkthrough Process/ Discovery Process

When customers reach out to Technicon Acoustics to solve a noise or heat problem, we want to understand their needs and expectations. We ask the customer to explain what they need from the product and how they want it to function. We follow up by requesting a description of the customer’s environmental conditions and any limitations that might affect product use. Finally, we ask the client what their goals are for the product.

Understanding the customer’s needs allows us to design a product to meet them. We may recommend an alternative to the customer’s initial request and make adjustments to facilitate the customer’s environment, limitations, and goals. After we have a thorough understanding of the customer’s needs, we send the client sample materials to evaluate.

Once the client is confident in the material selection, we create a prototype in full scale to allow the customer to test the final product. After evaluating the prototype, we create a bid package with additional options that the customer may want to include in the final product. Once accepted, Technicon Acoustics performs quality approval and inspection to ensure the product meets our quality standards and the client’s needs. From there, we begin manufacturing the custom product.

Our team also provides dedicated customer support and post-production support after the product ships to the client. Our knowledgeable team is committed to delivering responsive answers to customer inquiries and ensures accurate and on-time delivery.

The Order Process/ Execution/Committing to Quality

At Technicon Acoustics, we strive to offer the perfect order experience for our customers. This starts with our industry leading 2 week lead time and 99.16% on time shipping performance. Our OEM partners expect top quality from their suppliers. Technicon consistently delivers world class quality with a 99.91% performance score thanks to our ISO 9001:2015 quality standards and dedicated production team. Our goal is to be the low maintenance, top performing vendor for all of our OEM partners 

Technicon Acoustics can also deliver the following value-added solutions to ensure our products meets the customer’s needs and expectations:

• Just-in-time (JIT) delivery to eliminate the need for on-site storage and potential waste
• Custom kitting using our die-cutting and CNC cutting services
• Simplified inventory management, labels for individual parts, and custom-made perforated pieces for efficient installation
• Improved production flow and performance using Kanban inventory management

Partner With Technicon Acoustics

Technicon Acoustics provides the best product by understanding the needs of our customers and building a custom product to fulfill their goals. Our customer service team strives to deliver the perfect order with the best ordering experience, and we welcome feedback to help us improve.

If you are interested in partnering with Technicon Acoustics, reach out and talk to our experts about your needs and goals today. You can meet our team to collaborate on the ideal solution and provide feedback to help us improve the design. We will finalize the design and deliver a product that meets your expectations. Contact us or request a quote to learn more about our made-to-order acoustic and thermal solutions.

Serving Our Customers the Right Way

Technicon Acoustics works with a variety of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) based in North America. Our product solutions protect against unwanted sound, vibration, and thermal energy through the use of sound dampening or sound absorption technology.

We specialize in creating custom solutions for blocking, isolating, deflecting, and absorbing sound and heat energy. Our ultimate goal is providing the perfect ordering experience for every single customer we serve.

Technicon Acoustics and the Perfect Order

Creating an ideal ordering experience means ensuring you receive the right products, created to your exact specifications, on time. We use these three factors to guide our customer interactions:

1. Quality Performance

Every employee on our team believes in the importance of quality performance during every aspect of the job. We maintain strict quality control standards, focus on delivering real value, and make sure every step in our process is geared toward making every order better than the last.

2. Shipping

We know how important it is to get the parts you need precisely when you need them. Our fill rate and strict delivery practices ensure our customers always receive their orders on time, at the right location, and according to your facility’s procedures.

3. Order Accuracy

Our warehouse management system is the foundation of our excellent order process. We track every component and order to make sure it’s handled quickly, carefully, and diligently. Our packing process is designed to mitigate the risk of errors, so you receive your products exactly as ordered.

Delivering on these three principles without fail is important to our team. Our customers rely on our superior service every day, so we focus on excellence every day. At Technicon Acoustics, our commitment to customer service is incomparable and makes us a reliable partner for all of your sound control needs.

What Customers Get with Technicon Acoustics

When you choose Technicon Acoustics, you get dedicated customer support, customizable solutions, and easy access to value-added services.

Dedicated Customer Support

We’re available to answer your questions or concerns at any time. Our customer support team can fully answer your inquiries with knowledgeable explanations and help you solve anything from logistical concerns to engineering issues. Your feedback is important to us, and we’re always refining our support strategies to give customers the support they need, when they need it.

We prioritize responsiveness in every customer support interaction. If you need a fast order delivered to your facility as soon as possible, we can make it happen. Our team can expedite critical orders with minimal lead time. If you have questions or concerns, we’ll deliver answers as soon as possible. Our support team is available from initial quoting through final delivery and beyond.

Customizable Solutions

No two OEMs are alike, so the products you rely on should match your facility’s specific needs and processes. At Technicon Acoustics, we create an extensive range of products for different applications, environments, and markets.

If none of our standard solutions seem to be the right fit, talk to our experienced staff about custom orders that meet your facility’s needs for absorbing or isolating sound and thermal energy. Our team uses a time-tested methodology to create custom products that feature excellent performance in their intended applications. Ultimately, our custom projects offer cost-effective and comprehensive solutions to noise and vibration challenges while reducing your company’s environmental impact and costs.

Value-Added Services

Our value-added services are integral to each customer order experience. They include the following:

• Custom designs with perforated cutting for easier on-site installation, individual part labels, and simple inventory management
• Die cutting and CNC cutting applications for custom kitting
• Just-in-Time (JIT) delivery services that reduce waste and on-site storage constraints
• Kanban inventory scheduling for improved performance and better production flow

Full-Service Manufacturing with Technicon Acoustics

At Technicon Acoustics, we strive for 100% customer satisfaction every day. We’re a full-service manufacturing company and our 85,000-square-foot facility has the tools to handle custom orders, large and small production runs, and personalized value-added services.

Contact our team or request a quote today to learn more about our products or to talk with an engineer about a custom project.

Double Belt Lamination Technicon Acoustics

Technicon Acoustics adds double-belt lamination capabilities

At Technicon, we continue to invest in the latest manufacturing technologies to ensure we can make high quality materials as effectively as possible.  Our newest equipment is a new double belt lamination process.  This line has independent heat zones on the top and bottom as well as infrared heating on the in-feed side of the machine.  This gives us the ability to laminate multi-layer materials in one pass as well as the ability to laminate new materials that will expand our product line.  

Technicon Acoustics, located in Concord, NC is the leading manufacturer in Acoustic and Thermal solutions for OEM’s across North America. We design, develop, and deliver parts and materials that absorb, block and isolate sound and thermal energy.  

For more information about our Acoustic and Thermal fabrication capabilities, please visit our capabilities page.  

5 things to know about Die Cutting

5 things to know about Die Cutting

More cutting methods are available now than ever before. In the early days, Friction Sawing used to be the “go-to” material cutting option. Now, there are literally dozens of choices. In this blog, we’re going to focus on Die Cutting and determine if it’s right for you.

What is Die Cutting?

According to Wikipedia, Die Cutting is “the general process of using a die to shear webs of low-strength materials, such as rubber, fiber, foil, cloth, paper, corrugated fiberboard, paperboard, plastics, pressure-sensitive adhesive taps, foam and sheet metal”.  Die cutting provides versatility in fabrication and allows us to make custom parts, like gaskets across a variety of applications and are perfect for providing high volume precision cutting.

1.) Benefits of Flatbed Die Cutting

First, there’s Rotary Die Cutting and Flatbed die cutting. Flatbed Die Cutting is the process of cutting or perforating the desired shape our of material using a hydraulic press. Flatbed cutting reduces overall cost and used generally for large production runs, higher cutting efficiency, high part consistency. The Flatbed cutting process allows quick change over times from one part to another which increases overall efficiency.

2.) Common Applications

• Acoustical Insulation
• Appliances
• Compressors
• Generators
• Heavy Equipment
• Marine
• Medical Equipment
• Power Tools
• Tractor
• Truck Body and Cab

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3.) Die Cutting is perfect for custom kits

Die Cutting allows customed engineered designs to be cut into one large piece with perforated cuts, with each individual part separately labeled. This allows for quicker receiving and an overall simplified inventory process. Kitting makes assembly workers more efficient and increases output helping you reduce labor costs.

Worried about Quality and re-work? At Technicon, for the previous 12 months, our quality performance was 99.98%. See the  //www.techniconacoustics.com/company-about-us/the-perfect-order/

4.) Puts the “Lean” in Lean Manufacturing

Die Cutting reduces Material wastes and costs, time set up, loss and decreases parts. The more parts the less the efficiency.

1. Saves on Storage Space
2. Just In time delivery- get what you need exactly when you need it
3. Get custom packaging

5.) Die Cut Gaskets

Are reliable, customizable, and cost-effective. Die cut gaskets can be produced on rotary or flatbed equipment that helps reduce overall cost. At Technicon, we have a multiple point checklist in the production process. Pre- Production Planning or (PPP) can cut costs to make sure that everything is examined and in order from the time of the RFQ to purchasing and packaging. Die cutting allows us to give you design flexibility, low set up cost and supply chain flexibility.

Our Favorite TED Talks about Sound and Noise

Harnessing the power of sound

Humans are wired for sound. Steve Keller, one of the world’s leading experts in the field of audio branding, explores how brands are harnessing the power of sound and music to shape our perception and influence our behavior, ultimately asking the question: How can we use these same strategies and
tactics to make our world a better place?

The 4 ways sound affects us

Playing sound effects both pleasant and awful, Julian Treasure shows how sound affects us in four significant ways. Listen carefully for a shocking fact about noisy open-plan offices.

Tinnitus Ringing of the Brain

In this talk, Josef Rauschecker illuminates the science behind tinnitus as well as the current state of treatment options.

SShhh! Sound Health In 8 Steps

Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health — even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap earbuds) and restore our relationship with sound.

Why Architects need to use their ears

Because of poor acoustics, students in classrooms miss 50 percent of what their teachers say and patients in hospitals have trouble sleeping because they continually feel stressed. Julian Treasure sounds a call to action for designers to pay attention to the “invisible architecture” of sound.

What are some of your favorite Ted Talks?

Technicon Acoustics

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