History

Middlesex Industries is a product of the Boston High technology university environment. It grew into its present commercial technology through cooperation with that environment.

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Middlesex Welding Company developed Helium-Arc welding techniques under MIT direction

(1930)

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As Middlesex General Industries conducted aerospace test projects under MIT contract.

(1968)

 

 

 

Development of RF sputter systems for high temperature silicon carbide semiconductors under the MIT-NASA contract.

(1970)

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Entry into solutions for optimizing manufacturing. Commercializing and marketing of automated statistical process control for manufacturing.

(1978)

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Development and marketing of manufacturing and logistics software and hardware. First production of conveyor infrastructures for work-in-process material dispatch.

(1987)

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First application of conveyors as infrastructure for the ultraclean environment. Use of queuing theory dispatch logistics.

(1990)

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First semiconductor factory ever built on conveyor dispatch, transporting wafer lots direct tool-to-tool, on a unified logistics network. 10 years ahead of all other technologies of today.

(1995)

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The largest ever factory for production of Hard Disk Drives.

Manufacturing uses all Middlesex conveyor equipment.

(2005)

Nextgen conveyor

Advanced development of conveyor based dispatch of work-in-process continues at Middlesex, while it also made available for use by competition, to help develop a large supplier base for our customers.

(2007)