09.06.18
Newton Cyberfacturing is now nScrypt Cyberfacturing, and its co-founder, Mike Newton, will ramp up nScrypt’s contract design and manufacturing service.
After Newton and Dr. Ken Church, nScrypt’s president and CEO, founded Newton Cyberfacturing in 2012, nScrypt and Newton Cyberfacturing maintained parallel cyberfacturing businesses, providing solutions for Application-Specific Electronics Packaging (ASEP) and 3D Printed Circuit Structures (PCS), digitally manufacturing components, subsystems and platforms for the military and for the medical and commercial electronics industries. nScrypt is now bringing Newton Cyberfacturing in-house and renaming it nScrypt Cyberfacturing.
“nScrypt or its research company, Sciperio, were doing high-precision 3D printing and micro-dispensing as far back as 1999, when we printed conformal antennas for the DARPA’s (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Mesoscopic Integrated Conformal Electronics (MICE) program,” Dr. Church said. “That same year, we printed a helmet on the head of a living ant (the ant wasn’t harmed). We directly 3D printed a 900 MHz transmitter for the MICE program in 2001. I believe we were the first to do these things.”
Newton, who will run nScrypt Cyberfacturing, has more than 30 years of experience in advanced microelectronics and microsystems. He has built and managed a number of fabrication and research labs serving both commercial and government markets and scaled ceramic microelectronic products for both the commercial and military industries. He also serves as nScrypt’s director for electronic packaging, 3D printed electronics, and functional devices.
He currently serves as the Florida Chapter president for the International Microelectronics, Assembly and Packaging Society (IMAPS). He also serves on the roadmapping working group for NextFlex, IPC’s D66a Printed Electronics Standards Committee. Newton is also involved with NASA’s In Space Manufacturing (ISM) Working Group.
Newton previously served as chief technologist for microsystems with the Microelectronic Core Technology Group at Harris Corporation. In this position, he led strategic technology pursuits for the US Department of Defense, the US National Labs, and DARPA. He holds 47 patents in microelectronics, sensors, ceramic structures, MEMS, and antenna technologies.
“nScrypt’s new business unit will have three strategic focus areas: direct digital design and product co-development with our cyberfacturing customers; digital multi-material manufacturing of the co-developed designs using nScrypt’s digital manufacturing equipment, which combines 3D printing, micro-dispensing, micro-milling, and pick and place; and modular turnkey cyber-based manufacturing systems for use by others, such as the DoD and industry,” Newton said.
After Newton and Dr. Ken Church, nScrypt’s president and CEO, founded Newton Cyberfacturing in 2012, nScrypt and Newton Cyberfacturing maintained parallel cyberfacturing businesses, providing solutions for Application-Specific Electronics Packaging (ASEP) and 3D Printed Circuit Structures (PCS), digitally manufacturing components, subsystems and platforms for the military and for the medical and commercial electronics industries. nScrypt is now bringing Newton Cyberfacturing in-house and renaming it nScrypt Cyberfacturing.
“nScrypt or its research company, Sciperio, were doing high-precision 3D printing and micro-dispensing as far back as 1999, when we printed conformal antennas for the DARPA’s (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Mesoscopic Integrated Conformal Electronics (MICE) program,” Dr. Church said. “That same year, we printed a helmet on the head of a living ant (the ant wasn’t harmed). We directly 3D printed a 900 MHz transmitter for the MICE program in 2001. I believe we were the first to do these things.”
Newton, who will run nScrypt Cyberfacturing, has more than 30 years of experience in advanced microelectronics and microsystems. He has built and managed a number of fabrication and research labs serving both commercial and government markets and scaled ceramic microelectronic products for both the commercial and military industries. He also serves as nScrypt’s director for electronic packaging, 3D printed electronics, and functional devices.
He currently serves as the Florida Chapter president for the International Microelectronics, Assembly and Packaging Society (IMAPS). He also serves on the roadmapping working group for NextFlex, IPC’s D66a Printed Electronics Standards Committee. Newton is also involved with NASA’s In Space Manufacturing (ISM) Working Group.
Newton previously served as chief technologist for microsystems with the Microelectronic Core Technology Group at Harris Corporation. In this position, he led strategic technology pursuits for the US Department of Defense, the US National Labs, and DARPA. He holds 47 patents in microelectronics, sensors, ceramic structures, MEMS, and antenna technologies.
“nScrypt’s new business unit will have three strategic focus areas: direct digital design and product co-development with our cyberfacturing customers; digital multi-material manufacturing of the co-developed designs using nScrypt’s digital manufacturing equipment, which combines 3D printing, micro-dispensing, micro-milling, and pick and place; and modular turnkey cyber-based manufacturing systems for use by others, such as the DoD and industry,” Newton said.
