Get to Know Fathom

Fathom is a development partners to some of the largest OEMs in the world.

We help customers from ideation to rate production with speed, reduced risk, and we do it with a single point of contact.

The hardest part of manufacturing for our customers is not the first part and not the millionth part, but it’s all of that in between where they need speed and regulated manufacturing and partners with the same sense of urgency that they have.

This is the area when designs are changing, volumes can be unknown, and we’re still solving for what the right level of quality is to hit the form, fit, and function for a particular product. A lot more consideration has to go into this phase to get to rate production for regulated customers.

We have one of the widest services underneath our roofs and our four walls. Fathom brings with it over 25 different manufacturing technologies across the network and over three hundred years of experience across almost every manufacturing discipline. We take a project that needs to be done across many technologies and we manage that through every step in house.

For example, we got an optics company that we work with. One of the toughest parts I’ve seen in my thirty years of manufacturing. It required DMLS, three d metal printing, heat treating, EDM, CNC machining, special coating. The regulations around this product required constant CMM inspections and flow downs that were at the regulated government level. We were able to manage that from the NPI stage to the production stage. They get a finished part at the end of the day.

Our customers in regulated markets are being asked to compress qualification schedules at a rate faster than they’ve ever seen in the past. This means they have to go through trials and qualification in weeks, not months or years. We’re uniquely positioned with our digital infrastructure, our processes, and our quality systems to support their early product introduction all the way to release better than anybody in the marketplace.

Fathom is not just building capacity, we’re building capacity for the regulated space, supported by traceable processes, robust quality, cyber maturity, and the operational discipline necessary to deliver production grade parts reliably and at rate.

We are now experiencing both a medical and an aerospace and defense boom like this country has never seen before, and Fathom is growing at a rate that’s much faster than just the industry is. As we’ve invested heavily to support the demands of production, really the core engagement with our customers remain the same. We like to get involved early in the product life cycle so we can help consult with our customers to understand what manufacturing modality, what quality systems, and ultimately what sort of documentation is required to get their product to market. While we continue to evolve our business so that we can support the needs of regulated markets, as well as more complex design, a things remain the same.

We like for our teams to engage with our customers early so they can support design for manufacturing as well as quality considerations. But ultimately, at the end of the day, what we really pride ourselves on is delivering high quality products on time. We take incredible pride in how fast we can switch over our lines and how fast we can change the cells in order to accommodate an incredibly wide variety of components.

Fathom’s tremendously well positioned in today’s manufacturing environment. Our customers are faced with unprecedented pressure to get high quality product to market faster than any time in their history. We’ve invested in the people, the processes, and systems that allow us to support them from design iteration to release of products. The next ten years couldn’t be more exciting for our company.