History of Wasco
| • | Wasco Inc. is a highly recognized manufacturer
of pressure and vacuum switches that supplies the Semiconductor,
Automation, Fluid Power, and Hydraulic industries. |
| • | Wasco has been in business since 1963. Initially
through the utilization of automatic screw machines and
other machine shop equipment, Wasco manufactured parts
for other customers. In 1975 Wasco started working on a
pressure and vacuum switch product line utilizing existing
equipment and many years of previous pressure switch design
experience. Since then, three CNC bar fed turning machines
were purchased to provide more unique and efficient designs.
Research, development and testing equipment purchased through
the years have assisted in proving out the more sophisticated
applications to our customers. |
| • | Wasco is a certified supplier
to many of its customers. Wasco satisfies some customers
with "Just
In Time" services. Other customers have asked for
a consignment program which has been satisfied by Wasco's
desire to satisfy the customer totally. Wasco maintains
its portion of military business and has satisfied the
stringent quality requirements. |
| • | Wasco's quality system is set up to conform
to MIL- I- 45208 and subscribes to the principals of Total
Quality Management. Wasco has plans to become ISO 9000
certified in the near future. |
| • | Wasco's entire capsule line of pressure
and vacuum switches are UL recognized. Wasco's UHP series
not only is certified not to leak at the rate greater than
1 X 10 -9 cc/second of helium but is manufactured in a
class 100 clean room. |
| • | Wasco's latest model is the HESS series
which includes a solid state switching electrical. These
were developed in response to the growing use of PLC's
requiring logic level outputs. |
| • | Wasco is a customer driven company and tailor
makes pressure and vacuum switches for the customer's total
requirements. Custom applications includes adding pins
and connectors of customer choice, bar coding, heat shrinkable
label markers, adding customer part numbers to the label
or anything else that makes it easy for the customer. |
| • | Customers will find Wasco to be very competitive
in price. Wasco also offers a mix and match for customers
who purchase for more than one pressure switch application.
Wasco encourages annual blanket orders to allow for maximum
cost savings to the customer. Samples are available for
customer test and evaluation. |