About Calex Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Calex Mfg. Co., Inc. is a privately held company with corporate
headquarters located in Concord California, 25 miles east of San Francisco.
Calex, founded in 1962, employs 135 people with sales of approximately $10,000,000.
Calex was founded as a partnership in 1962 with the mission of developing instrumentation
and power conversion products and providing world class service and quality.
The company incorporated in 1963.
Products, Markets, and Applications
Calex is a middle level "high tech" company. Calex manufactures roughly 35,000 products each month consuming approximately 1,000,000 components. Calex has over 1000 different standard and custom catalog products.
DC/DC Converters
These printed circuit board mounted products are used in telecommunications, medical instruments, military and industrial control systems. Input voltages range from 3 VDC to 300 VDC. Output voltages range from 0.75 VDC to 180VDC. Isolated and non-isolated products are available in both surface mount and through hole configurations. Calex also offers DIN Rail mount converters for process control applications. Calex offers both standard and custom solutions.
CBAM™
Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) power solutions for military and aerospace applications. The CBAM™ offering includes filtering, hold-up, power quality and load sharing modules. All modules are compatible with Calex DC/DC converter products.
AC DC Power Supplies
Encapsulated printed circuit board mounted AC to DC power supplies with power levels from 1.5 watts to 10 watts. These are low noise linear designs and are typically used in analytical instruments, medical instruments, industrial scales and weighing systems.
Signal Conditioners/Instrumentation Modules
Instrumentation amplifiers and other instrumentation modules for conditioning low level DC signals with special focus on strain gage signal conditioning. Calex also manufactures a variety of analog I/O modules for Micro PLCs. Input options include TC, RTD, Strain gage, 0-10V and 4 to 20 mA.
Manufacturing Operations
Calex has manufacturing operations located in two plants totaling approximately 25,000 square feet. One plant is located in Concord, California and is used to introduce new products and support low volume/high mix production.
The other plant located in Tijuana, Mexico is dedicated to high volume products. Both plants utilize the same production equipment and all products can be built at either facility.
8 - SMT Work Centers
2 - Solder Paste Screen Systems
2 - Reflow Ovens
2 - Wave Solder Systems
8 - Burn In Racks
8 - Automatic Test Systems
Both plants are connected with a single ERP system integrated through a Wide Area Network (WAN) to optimize inventory and reduce lead-times. Calex supports it's customers with minimized lead-times and flexible delivery schedules to support Just in Time (JIT) planning and inventory control.
Quality Assurance
Calex is ISO 9001:2000 registered and fully complies with the quality and reliability
requirements of manufacturing companies throughout the world. Our 5 Year product
warranty is supported by our Quality Assurance operations and through the design
efforts of experienced circuit designers. Our quality assurance operations conduct
regular internal quality audits to support our continuous improvement commitment
to our customers.
All products are 100% tested on automatic test equipment and handled in a static
safe environment. PPM performance data is available upon request and validates
Calex's position as a top quality supplier.
The European Commission has proposed the Restriction of Hazardous Substances
(ROHS) Directive, restricting certain hazardous substances in electrical and
electronic products sold in Europe after July 1, 2006. Calex's products ordered with a "(RoHS)" after the part number are in compliance with this directive.
Customers
Calex serves the high-end, quality oriented, COTS market as well as the military COTS market. Our product and service reputation is excellent.
Calex customers include many industry leaders such as Kodak, IBM, Rockwell,
Hewlett Packard, Chevron, Unisys, E.I. Dupont, 3M, United Technologies, Lockheed
Martin, Ford Motor, AT&T, Brookhaven National Labs, Gleason Works, Otis
Elevator, Chrysler, Hughes, Lawrence Livermore Lab, Schlumberger, Abbott Labs,
General Electric, General Motors, Texas Instruments, Michelin Tire, Siemens,
and hundreds of other active users.
Calex has been exporting products since 1968. Our products are currently being
shipped to the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary,
Sweden, Holland, Italy, Germany, South Africa, Korea, Israel, Japan, and Taiwan.
Exports represent about 10% of sales.