Industrial Strength: Sensors From Milford Keep Production In Line
You tend to see your favorite foods in a new light once you've seen them processed in massive quantities and at mind-bending speed.
By-and-large, the food cranked out at these plants hits store shelves without a hitch. One bag of potato chips is the same as the next, and that's how it's supposed to be. Consistency is king when it comes to making snack food.
And that consistency doesn't happen by chance. It happens because of sensors manufactured by the about 30 employees of Process Sensors Corp., which has its world headquarters, and does all of its manufacturing, at the 495 Commerce Park in Milford.
An Eye On The Line
For the past 10 years Process Sensors has made "near-infrared" sensors that monitor moisture on production lines in manufacturing facilities. The sensors look like small metal boxes with a lens attached, and make sure companies' crackers, chips, paper, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, wood and other products are coming down the line as they should be.
Process equipment monitors all of Pepperidge Farms' product lines, scanning each and every little Goldfish and cookie for excess moisture.
Process is also in Utz snackfood factories, Phillip Morris tobacco processing plants, at Georgia Pacific and very soon will be monitoring the lines at Cape Cod potato chips in Hyannis.
There's an interesting mix of businesses at the 495 Commerce Park. It's home to a Fallon Clinic Optical Center, Sherwin Williams and Caremark Inc. warehouses and the Edward D. Cormier architecture firm.
Other manufacturers in the park include Bytex Corp., which designs and manufactures switches for wide area network communications systems and ATM firewalls.
Florida-based Techdyne Inc. has had a 5,500-square-foot facility at the park for a little more than four years. Techdyne is an electronics manufacturer that specializes in cables, wire harnesses and printed circuit boards. The company also assembles those subassemblies into higher-level components for customers.
The Massachusetts Alliance for Economic Development lists one of the park's tenants as "Omega Farm Services," which sounds pretty interesting, but that business' real name is Omega PharmServices Inc., and the correct spelling lets you know that Omega doesn't mend fences or butcher cattle.
In fact, Omega began as a regulatory consultancy firm for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, but has grown to also become a contract laboratory for microbiological testing and formulation development. Omega says it can help biotech and drug companies become more efficient and speed up their product development programs. The company does still provide quality assurance and regulatory consulting.
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