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The Future of CMMC Compliance: CMMC 2.0

Key Points CMMC requirements are expected to evolve to address new cyber threats. Regularly updated controls and potentially new maturity levels will ensure its effectiveness. CMMC adoption is accelerating across DoD and the federal government. Certified contractors are likely to have a significant advantage. The principles may also inspire voluntary adoption in other sectors. Emphasis on continuous diagnostics and monitoring will be a hallmark of an evolved CMMC program. Leverage automated ...

Defense Contractor Cybersecurity: 5 Benefits of CMMC Compliance

Die Cut Gaskets eGuide: 5 Frequent Design Oversights & How to Address Them

If you make a mistake during the design phase, you run the risk of going over budget and not receiving your solution in time. Our latest eGuide will help you avoid these common design oversights. Get a free copy by subscribing to our blog.

Parker Chomerics Thermal Material Guide

10 Things to Expect from Your Thermal Management Partner

Modus Advanced Welcomes Chris Bourbeau, US Marine Corps Veteran, to the Team

Chomerics Gasket Material: CHOFORM 5575

Chomerics Gasket Material: CHOFORM 5526

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Chomerics Gasket Material: CHOFORM 5550

Chomerics Gasket Material: CHOFORM 5538

Chomerics Gasket Material: CHOFORM 5528

Choosing the Right Manufacturing Process for an Electrically Conductive Gasket

Chomerics Gasket Material: CHOFORM 5541

Chomerics Gasket Material: CHOFORM 5513

10 Things to Expect from Your Parker Chomerics Distributor

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When to Use a Fabric-Over-Foam, or Conductive Fabric Gasket

7 EMI Gasketing Design Considerations

5 Considerations for Selecting a Conductive Elastomer

RF Gasket Materials Guide

Conductive Gasket Materials Guide

Navigating Domestic Supply Chain Challenges

Keep it Close to Home: Importance of Domestic Manufacturing

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Domestic Manufacturing for Defense Partners

Investing in Domestic Manufacturing

Metal Machining Services for Custom RF Shields

CNC Machined Parts with FIP Gaskets: Why Vertical Integration Is Best

The Future of Automation in Manufacturing: People Aren't Going Anywhere 

RF Absorber Sheets vs. Dispensed RF Absorbers

Manufacturing Process Automation at Modus Advanced

The manufacturing industry has made incredible advances in technological innovation over the last few decades. Modern-day manufacturers must keep up with these advances in order to maintain a competitive edge in the global marketplace. Manufacturers are constantly seeking ways to improve their process automation in order to reduce labor costs, lead time, and increase production quality, among other things.

How Modus is Moving Toward 100% Verification with the UR10e Robot 

Precision CNC Machining Services: A Breakdown of Modus's Capabilities

Choosing a CNC Machining Partner for the Prototype Phase

CNC Machining Services for RF Shields

How to Select a CNC Machining Services Partner

Modus vs. a Traditional CNC Machine Shop

RF Shielding Material Guide

Key Points RF shielding materials must be conductive in order to be effective. Material quality matters for both RF shielding enclosures and RF shielding gaskets. Even with high-quality materials, you need a high-quality manufacturing partner to make an effective RF shield. It’s not easy to design a radio frequency (RF) shield. You have to tailor the design to your specific application and device, and you have to make it effective. As if those two tasks weren’t enough, you then have to figure ...

8 RF Shielding Techniques to Know About

What is RF Shielding Effectiveness?

RF Absorbers for Military Applications

RF Shielding Solutions: A Breakdown of Modus's Capabilities

The Best Process for Building a Custom RF Shield

5 Manufacturing Methods for Shielding RF Signals

RF Shields: Why a Vertically Integrated Partner is Best

Key Points Vertical integration is uncommon in RF shield manufacturing, but it provides big benefits. A vertically integrated RF shield manufacturing partner can offer lower lead times and costs, as well as fewer hassles. Modus is the vertically integrated partner you’re looking for.

RF Shield Design Guide

RF Blocking: RF Shields vs. RF Absorbers

What DoD Contractors Should Expect from a Manufacturing Partner

FDA-Approved Materials for Medical Devices

Engineers Make Up More Than 10% of Our Staff. Here’s Why You Should Care.

Aerospace Material Specification Materials

Our Chosen Quality Control Software for Manufacturing

At Modus Advanced, quality is always on our minds. It’s the most important thing we think about because, at the end of the day, if we don’t do quality manufacturing, we’re not going to succeed. Our customers depend on us for quality that’s high enough to meet the most stringent standards, such as those set by the military.

MIL SPEC AA-59588 Class 3 Silicones

Incorporating AI for Manufacturing Quality Control

Our Take: What’s Missing from the 5G vs. Airlines Debate? EMI Shielding

MIL SPEC AA-59588 Class 2 Silicones

MIL SPEC AA-59588 Class 1 Silicones

Modus Advanced Adds Will Gardner as Product and Business Development Engineer

7 Considerations for Selecting an EMI Shielding Gasket Manufacturer

Here’s the thing about EMI shielding gasket manufacturers: they aren’t all the same. Each one brings a wide variety of skills, capabilities, processes and values to the table.

Quality Assurance in Manufacturing: Building a Robust Quality System

Meet Our Manufacturing Quality Engineers

Blanket POs: How to Avoid Supply Chain Disruption in 2022

Your MIL-SPEC EMI Shielding Materials Guide

4 Considerations for 5G EMI Shielding Applications

5 Considerations for EMI Shielding in Space Applications

4 Considerations for EMI Shielding in Electric Vehicles

The roads of the world were home to roughly 17,000 electric vehicles (EVs) in 2010. By 2019, that figure was closer to 7.2 million. All signs suggest that this number is only going to continue to go up as motorists ditch gas guzzlers for EVs in the name of cost-savings, the environment and tech-mindedness.

Guidance for Designing an EMI Shielded Enclosure

5 Considerations for EMI Shielding in Aircraft Applications

Choosing the Wrong Manufacturing Partner: Recovering from Quality Control Issues

Depth vs. Breadth of Manufacturing Expertise: Which is Best?

What is EMI/RFI Shielding?

Modus Advanced Welcomes Daryle Ostrowski as Procurement Assistant

Robotic Gasket Dispensing: 6 Applications for Form-in-Place Gaskets

Form-in-place (FIP) gaskets have applications across a wide variety of industries. Their uses vary greatly, but FIP gaskets have one thing in common no matter how they’re used: they are applied to their destination surface via robotic gasket dispensing.

What is EMI Shielding Effectiveness?

Nolato Form-in-Place Gasket Materials

What’s the Cost of Poor Quality?

4 Reasons We Use a Datron Form-in-Place Gasket Dispenser

6 Tips for Designing a Form-in-Place EMI Gasket

What Happens During a SigShield™ DFM: a Design for Manufacturability Review and Consultation Service?

Form-in-Place Gasket Services: What to Look for in a Manufacturing Partner

Form-in-place (FIP) gaskets are a waste-free and versatile custom gasket solution for devices in a large variety of industries. From defense to consumer electronics, FIP gaskets literally fill the voids to keep all kinds of devices working as intended.

Quality Certifications for Manufacturing: AS9100 vs. ISO 9001

What is a Form-in-Place Gasket?

Modus Advanced Welcomes Jesse Satkoski as Procurement Specialist

Modus Advanced Promotes Tanner Stephan to Procurement Manager

6 Biggest Takeaways from Our Form-in-Place Gasket Design Guide

Modus Advanced Adds Shaun Thiesen as Regional Sales Manager

Modus Advanced Promotes Mike Carson to Senior Field Applications Engineer

New promotion of Senior Applications Engineer will help company bring life changing products to market faster Modus Advanced, a leading manufacturing company, is proud to announce the promotion of Mike Carson to his new role as Senior Applications Engineer. Mike will directly support customers with new and existing applications. As the Senior Applications Engineer, it is Mike's responsibility to directly support customers with new and existing applications as well as provide support to the ...

Parker Chomerics Form-in-Place Gasket Materials

Modus Advanced Promotes Robert Trout to Director of Sales

Why Modus Invests in Cybersecurity to Keep Customers Safe

Form-in-Place Gasket Material Guide

Modus Advanced Adds Hollis Morris as Regional Sales Manager

Extrusions vs. Form-in-Place Gaskets

SigShield™ vs. Traditional RF Shield Production

We are often asked to explain what makes our SigShield™ process different than traditional RF shield production. It can be hard to compare the two head to head when just looking at a quote because the process we’ve built is so unique that most people don’t even know something like it exists.

Strategic Sourcing: What it Means from the Supplier Side

The Story of SigShield™: So Much More than Just an RF Shield

Design Considerations for Machined Parts: 13 Design Features That Can Reduce Your Lead Times and Costs for Machined Parts

SigShield™ Turnkey Machined RF Shields – Wait, What?

A SigShield™ Success Story

Idea to Ignition: Discontinued Gore Materials

What are Partnership Accounts at Modus Advanced?

Internally at Modus we talk a lot about Partnership Accounts. Our dedication to building and serving our Partnership Accounts is what drives us every single day.

Setting Tolerances for Elastomeric or Flexible Parts

What Happens During a Design for Manufacturability (DFM) Review?

Strategic Procurement vs. Reactive Procurement

EMI Shielding Materials Guide

Silicone Gasket Materials Guide

Is Waterjet Cutting the Right Fit for Your Custom Gasket?

Is Digital or CNC Cutting the Right Fit for Your Custom Gasket?

This article is a member of our series on different manufacturing processes for custom gaskets. It follows the same structure, and includes similar introductory text, to ensure that whether you read a single article in the series or multiple, you’ll have all the information you need.

Compashield® Extrusion: Versatile EMI-shielding Gaskets

Is Die Cutting the Right Fit for Your Custom Gasket?

How to Choose a Custom Gasket Company

What is EMI Shielding and Why is it Important for Your Design?

10 Things to Expect from Your Custom Gasket Manufacturing Partner

10 Questions to Ask Yourself When Choosing a Material for Your Custom Gasket

27 Materials for Custom Gaskets and Their Purposes

There are thousands of materials to choose from when building your custom gasket, each with different properties and tolerances to choose from.

8 Important Design Considerations for Custom Gaskets

Replacing Gore GS2100, 5200, and 8000 EMI Products in Your Application

Modus Advanced, Inc. Waterjet Cutting Tolerances

Modus Advanced, Inc. Digital Cutting Tolerances

Idea to Ignition™ Ep. 5: Partnership Accounts

Modus Advanced, Inc.: Proudly Manufacturing in the USA

Idea to Ignition™ Ep. 4: Revolutionizing RF Shield Production with SigShield™

RF Shield Lead Times With Modus Advanced Inc.

Idea to Ignition™ Ep. 3: More About Modus Advanced, Inc.

Idea to Ignition™ Ep. 2: New or Improved Noise & Thermal Solutions for Rail/Mass Transit

Idea to Ignition Ep. 1: The Importance of Supply-Chain Resilience

Engineering Software Tools Help Solve Vibration Isolation Challenges

Parker LORD Vibration Isolators: Performance Based on Science

Of Course There’s Value Working With LORD!

The LORD Channel Partner Model Hi, I’m a LORD Channel Partner! You’re a what? I know, it’s a weird way to start a conversation with an engineer trying to solve a critical vibration isolation issue. The introduction always happens with a smile and then is usually followed by a discovery conversation. Modus Advanced, Inc. has been a trusted LORD Channel Partner for over 25 years. Over the years the program has been optimized into a finely tuned system designed to bring LORD’s engineering and ...

The Incredible Value of Core Suppliers

LORD Vibration Isolators and Shock Mounts - Engineering the Product and Process

The Idea to Ignition™ Methodology Provides the Framework for EMI Shielding Design Success

Idea to Ignition™ - A Manufacturing Methodology

Trishield 2.0: Sometimes 2 is Better Than 1

Are You a Candidate For SigShield™?

Lessons Learned from Machining

Historically a rubber seal and gasket company, Modus Advanced, Inc. recently ventured into the machining business due to increased demand for quick turn RF shields. We now produce complete radio frequency (RF) shields from start to finish, beginning with the machining of the aluminum to the dispensing of a form-in-place (FIP) gasket.

RF Shields: How Should You Measure for Accuracy?

Top Tips for Avoiding Re-tightened Fasteners on RF Shields

How Additive Manufacturing Could Transform the Rubber Industry

3D Printing vs. Compression Molding: What’s the Right Choice?

Engine Vibration Analysis Reduces Development Cost and Time

Key Benefits to Working with a Nolato EMC Production Partner for EMI Shielding Solutions

How to Avoid Quality Control Issues with Component Manufacturers

Component manufacturers with poor quality control can jeopardize your engineering projects. Form-in-Place (FIP) gaskets, die cut gaskets, and custom molded rubber products with part defects may not perform as required. Custom-fabricated components that fail to arrive on-time may cause delays in product development, production, and assembly. These are just a couple of reasons engineers need to be aware of how quality-focused their custom parts supplier is.

Solving the Problem of an Aggressive Timeline: QUICK-TURN RF SHIELDING COMPONENTS WITH FIP GASKETS!

Best Gaskets for Complex Designs and Tight Spaces: Form In Place Gasket

Sourcing FIP Gaskets: Vertically-Integrated Manufacturer vs. Multi-Source Supply Chain

The High Cost of Using Renewable Resources to Manufacture Custom Rubber Products

The Best Manufacturing Method To Prototype Custom Molded Rubber Parts

Best Die Cut Gaskets for Water Sealing – Poron® or Bisco® Silicone Foam?

EMI Shielding Gasket: The Best Application for Compression Molding

EMI gaskets can be fabricated through a variety of methods. The most common techniques tend to be die cutting and compression molding. Some excellent shielding gaskets, such as EMI O-rings, can be cut by hand and then cold-spliced or vulcanized. Water jet cutting and digital or die-less cutting are also used in EMI gasket fabrication. These methods are good choices for prototyping and lower-volume production because there’s no custom tooling.

3 Reasons to Use Nickel-Graphite Silicones for EMI Shielding Gaskets

How is Rubber Bonded to Metal?

3 Reasons to Choose Die Cut Gaskets

The Top 4 EMI Shielding Gasket Manufacturing Processes

4 Keys to Successful Form-in-Place Gasket Design

Why Consider a "Safetied" Vibration Isolation Mount Solution?

How Waterjet Technology Helped Build a Hyperloop Pod

We all know that necessity drives invention and paves the path to progression, so when Elon Musk found himself in traffic during his commute between SpaceX and Tesla, the idea of faster and less congested travel became imminent...Enter the Hyperloop. In 2013, with the help of volunteer engineers from SpaceX, Elon’s idea evolved into a white paper called “Hyperloop Alpha”, aka: The Alpha Paper. The Alpha Paper outlines every aspect of this new technology engineers could conceive; from design of ...

Planning to Prevent Manufacturing Disruption

What Could Happen when Vibration Isolation Isn’t Considered in the Design Stage

Don't Miss Out.... On-Site Thermal Interface Materials Lunch-and-Learn

What's My Solution: Thermal Pads or Thermal Form-In-Place?

3 Ways President Trump Could Transform U.S. Manufacturing

Thermal Management Solutions: 5 Keys to Thermal Dissipation Using Thermal Interface Material

We Are Modus!

WE ARE MODUS! The day came and went. Last month we said goodbye to the name Western Rubber & Supply. For 40 years, our name signified comprehensive capabilities, innovative materials, and an unparalleled commitment to our partners' satisfaction.

Why Rubber is Used for Vibration and Shock Isolation

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