New Building Dedicated Solely to Manufacturing

The new building at Cypress Technologies is now fully completed and is operational. This is our second building, and it is dedicated solely to manufacturing. Of the 20,000 sq/ft, only a few offices exist for training, meetings, and breaks. According to Greg Child, “We’ve built a strong bond with our customers over the last 25 years. Quite often our customers ask us to broaden our services, something our existing building could not accommodate especially with the larger, heavier products often seen in the oil and gas industry. Now, with the completion of our new building, we not only more than doubled our manufacturing capacity, but we have a brand new building and equipment that can accommodate those grander sized projects. “The second building shares the same address: Cypress Technologies Corporation 17301 FM 1431, Leander, TX 78641. Along with panel, cable, and through-hold PCBA manufacturing, our new facility has a compact pick and place machine for surface mount board builds.

Lean Manufacturing Initiative

Additionally, the new building allows Cypress to roll out phase two of our lean manufacturing initiative. Almost a year ago, we started a small project to test lean manufacturing. That small project changed the way we run our business. The benefits of lean manufacturing have been realized already at Cypress. We have seen increased productivity, lower costs, less lead times, and better quality. This is especially important to us right now, as we strive to stay a lean machine during the slow global economy.

Driven by the slow economy, Cypress Technologies is also moving research and development resources towards other markets. For over 25 years, Cypress has traditionally serviced the oil and gas market space. However, offshore rig counts continue to fall along with all aspects of fossil fuel for energy. Additionally, the current administration is applying governmental pressures and providing grant money for companies developing products and services geared around renewable greener energy. Since the oil and gas industry may be slow to rev back-up again, we feel it is important to diversify our business now more than ever.

Cypress Diversifies: Supports Security, Medical Product Companies and Military Industries

In an effort to diversify, Cypress has targeted and met with several medical product companies. Additional market expansion is expected in both the security and military industries.

Our push into the military industry is a natural fit for us as they share common problems, designs, and quality levels seen in the oil and gas industry. In fact, we have done 100’s of projects for the military and companies that service the military. The only difference is they sought our services versus us finding them.

Additional resources are focused towards hazard rated products. Approximately three months ago, Cypress launched an effort to design and build ATEX controlled products. ATEX is the framework for controlling explosive atmospheres. ATEX provides standards of equipment and protective systems. It is based on two directive requirements one being the ATEX workplace directive and the second being the ATEX equipment directive. Cypress will design and manufacture products for both directives. Our Quality Management System is established, documented, implemented and maintained in accordance with ISO 9001:2008. Our system also includes Standard EN 13980:2002, which includes POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE ATMOSPHERES - APPLICATION OF QUALITY SYSTEMS.

Our quality mission statement is “Excellence through exceeding customer expectations is our goal. Nothing less is acceptable”. Let us exceed your expectations!