What’s it like being a small manufacturer, building components that will eventually go into a Space Mission? How do companies work with universities to help with Research and Development? On this episode of Market Hunt, we chat with Brian Creber, President of B-Con Engineering.
Check out the B-Con Case Study on the International Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub.
Questions or feedback on our episode? Get in touch with show host Thierry Harris: thierry.harris@cartouchemedia.com
Guest bio: Brian CreberBrian Creber is President of B-Con Engineering.
Established in 1988 as a contract optical system design and prototype fabrication service provider, B-Con continues to meet the critical needs of the high-tech sector for optical engineering and optical component fabrication.
In 1997 B-Con set out to establish itself as a world leader in optical component and optical system manufacturing by providing turnkey optical engineering, prototyping and production services. B-Con is the ultimate partner for optical component fabrication and optical component outsourcing.
Today, B-Con holds numerous patents in the diamond turning and metrology fields. These patents demonstrate how B-Con is on the leading edge of optical engineering, taking optical component fabrication to another level.
Brian has 45 years of Engineering experience in the Lasers, Optics, and Systems Engineering field.
He graduated from Queens University in Engineering Physics in 1975
Episode Links:
B-Con Engineering
Phoenix Mars Lander
National Research Council Canada
Canadian Space Agency
McMaster Manufacturing Research Institute
University of Lethbridge
Pufferfish Displays
MDA
Ball Aerospace
Space Technologies
Market Hunt is produced by Cartouche Media in collaboration with Seratone Studios in Montreal and Popup Podcasting in Ottawa.
Market Hunt is part of the International Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub network. Funding for this program comes from the Social Sciences and Humanities Resource Council of Canada.
Executive Producers: Hamid Etemad, McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management and Hamed Motaghi, Université du Québec en Outaouais.
Associate Producer, Jose Orlando Montes, Université du Québec à Montréal.
Technical Producers Simon Petraki, Seratone Studio and Lisa Querido, Pop up Podcasting.
Show consultant, JP Davidson.
Artwork by Melissa Gendron. You can check out the ie-Knowledge Hub Case studies on B-Con Engineering, as well as other cases at ie-knowledgehub.ca.