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Temex will soon become Rakon Temex, a subsidiary of Rakon France

23.07.2010
Rakon is a global leader in the design and manufacture of frequency control solutions and the world leader supplier of crystal oscillators to the GPS market and also a leader to the...




TEMEX will be present at 2010 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium

06.05.2010
  The International Frequency Control Symposium is one of the leading international scientific events where to learn about new enhancements and discoveries on the...




The FREQUENCE 2009 project presented by the TEMEX R&D was selected by the French National Research Agency (ANR) for the "Functional Materials and Innovative Processes" Programme

08.01.2010
The ANR will partially fund the FREQUENCE project managed by TEMEX jointly with FEMTO-ST and GEMMA. The project title is: "Modelling of crystal resonators and innovative processes in...

ABOUT TEMEX

MANUFACTURING

TEMEX designs and manufactures space qualified and military standard frequency control products using the latest technology in crystal resonators and filters, SAW and crystal oscillators, and signal processing sub-systems. We are using discrete, surface mount, ceramic and hybrid packaging technological solutions for our products.

Headquartered in Mougins, Technological Park of Sophia Antipolis, Temex has its up-to- date 1350M² operating facilities with modern clean room (class 1000 to class 10000) in Troyes, near Paris.


From single crystal to high-end space and defense qualified highly reliable frequency components

TEMEX is well known for its manufacturing expertise and design approach in crystal processing on all the stages:

1. Slicing: we cut bars to make SC cut.

2. Angular improvement: this operation consists in changing the angle a little bit to have a good spread.

3. Rounding : we round the square crystal (after this operation we have a circular one)

4. Lapping: we process the first step in reducing the thickness for adjusting the frequency.

5. Polishing: it is the second step of frequency adjustment with a thinner abrasive.

6. Cleaning: we remove all abrasives with cleaning agents.

7. Plating : we start to add metal layer to adjust the frequency

8. Cementing : we stick the lens and metallic bases together with an electro-conductive paste

9. Final adjustment : we add a small quantity of metal to adjust precisely the frequency

10. Encapsulation/packaging: we close the package under controlled atmosphere

11. Pre aging : we make a thermal stabilization on the resonator

A perfect knowledge of the crystals process and very skilled engineering and R&D enable us to propose an appropriate crystal technology solution to meet high-end design requirements.

Manufacturing philosophy: global dynamic approach in manufacturing chain evaluation

The success of modern high technology factory is based on its efficient production organization capable to evaluate the dynamic of internal and external factors. Dynamic evaluation approach allows TEMEX to build the most appropriate company strategy.
Production System requires to create synergies between:

• the top management directly involved
• all the employees
• the experts network

Our global production evaluation approach is applied to the following areas:

• Definition of TEMEX future business areas

• Benchmarking of competition, clients and prospects, partners, experts and suppliers

• Building and strengthening of the technical expertise, organization and resources

• Audit of situation evaluation

• Planning and ranking of actions priorities

• Implementing of Action Plan with close follow up

• Monitoring and optimization of company structure and resources 


For TEMEX managing the production processes means to manage the entire supply chain: