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WELCOME TO NORTHERN APEX

Northern Apex was established in 1998, as a strategic part of the Fort Wayne Indiana based Adaptive Technologies Group which was founded in 1989. The founding mission of Northern Apex was to offer an engineering team focused on automating the tracking and delivery of the critical data needed for control and management of personnel, materials and equipment. Today, Adaptive Technologies includes over 120 engineers, technicians, project managers, and assembly team members whose only goal is to make our clients more productive. We do this by offering a wide range of automation solutions and product enhancement services. We have delivered over 6000 unique projects to date and have customers ranging from medical, automotive, electronics, energy and distribution. The Northern Apex group delivers world class solutions to our clients so they can gain in profitability, market position and maintain a leading competitive advantage.

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Our goal is to energize business advancement with our success driven team; delivering the best instantaneous information systems technology to help our customers gain a significant market and profit advantage. Put simply, to impress with success. Since 1998, Northern Apex Corporation has developed a reputation for innovation, customer focus, and affordability and we are recognized and respected as a pioneer and a leading integrator in the world of information management and hardware solutions including RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology.

OUR LEADERSHIP

Chief Technology Officer Rick Raber Portrait

Rick Raber

Chief Technology Officer
Northern Apex

Rick has been involved with successful manufacturing & field support systems design and development for more than 30 years. Included in this experience is a 20-year tenure as CTO at Northern Apex Corporation. Rick has lead Northern Apex’s engineering team to create electronic designs, complete RFID/automatic identification solution integration, and has provided total engineering and technology management.

Career Highlights

System architect of the solution that won the 2015 APICS Innovation Award of Excellence
Testimony before the House Subcommittee on Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Security
Recognition as a subject matter expert in the physics of RFID and its application to the fields of property and asset management, retail jewelry, pharmaceutical, life sciences, RTLS and manufacturing
Project Manager for several FDA validated, item and case level pharmaceutical product RFID tracking projects
RFID site survey and needs analysis

Project design and management responsibility for hundreds of fielded, multi-frequency, active & passive RFID solutions (125/134.2 kHz, 13.56 MHz, 303/433 MHz and 900 MHz) since 1999
RFID application expertise from conceptual design and development to deployment of software, hardware, and tag packaging
Engineering team management for a multi-platform technology solution provider
Communications/networking infrastructure analysis and design
Handheld, kiosk and complete production line design and RFID deployment experience

ADDITIONAL SERVICES

Integration

Northern Apex’s key integration tool is that we can easily move well beyond other basic technology integrators. Our family of companies specializes in many aspects of advanced technologies from RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and other Auto-ID, solutions, as well as electro-mechanical assemblies, controls and custom circuit boards. In addition, our teams can provide custom kiosk, point of purchase interface components and even automated production handling systems. Feel free to visit the links on this page to check out each of our companies.

Conceptual Reviews and Prototyping

Our diverse engineering team works directly with you to take existing products, processes, or needs and assess feasibility from concepts to prototypes. Our multiple disciplined engineers balances needs versus wants, as we work through the creation of drawings, schematics and bill of materials to understand payback and ROI scenarios in an efficient, cost effective manner.

Enterprise Technology Solutions

We will analyze your business's critical systems, processes, and applications and create a solution that will help you increase productivity, reduce costs, and maximize your system's potential. Since business enterprise can be unique for each company, our diverse disciplines of engineering, management and technology experts help to outline and implement a plan that meets your current and future growth needs. Software, hardware, and business systems are dissected, analyzed, and developed to fill the potential voids in your existing infrastructure.

Automatic Identification

We utilize automatic identification solutions to help address your company's problem areas. Our solutions employ RFID (radio frequency identification), barcode, RTLS (Real-Time Locating System), and other technologies, to address the issues in your store, office, or manufacturing facility. If your company is involved in supply chain, manufacturing, work-in-process, warehousing, logistics, retail or property/asset management, our goal is to provide hardware, software, and accurate, real-time data to improve your efficiency and bottom-line.

Control Boards

Our Team is a dedicated manufacturer of custom electronic controls spanning a wide variety of applications. We build simple to complex circuit board assemblies and controls, as well as offer engineering services to create the control or board layout to fit your specific application.

Electro-Mechanical Assembly

We are an extension of your production floor; offering electro-mechanical assembly services, as well as packaging options. We will design and assemble your product to fit in the enclosure that works best for your application.

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