Bishop-Wisecarver recently announced that Dualvee® Vacuum Wheels have been selected as a finalist in the 14th Annual Golden Mousetrap Awards in the Motors and Mechanical Motion Devices category.

Pittsburg, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/22/2015 -- Bishop-Wisecarver Group, a WBENC-certified, woman-owned family of companies that offer guidance solutions, contract specialty manufacturing and mechatronic-based engineering services, announced today that Dualvee® Vacuum Wheels have been selected as a finalist in the 14th Annual Golden Mousetrap Awards in the Motors and Mechanical Motion Devices category. The Awards, sponsored by Design News, celebrate the companies, products and people who are energizing North American design, engineering and manufacturing. Winners in the 16 technology categories will be announced at the Golden Mousetrap Awards ceremony February 10, 2015, in Anaheim, California.

DualVee Vacuum Wheels are a standardized, off-the-shelf, mechanical component solution enabling faster and more simplified design iterations in the complex and challenging vacuum environments where it is difficult to implement guided motion or product manipulation devices. Bishop-Wisecarver's unique guide wheel technology is ideally suited for guided motion within vacuum environments such as automated material handling and manipulation equipment, sliding racks for loading and unloading, loadlock and transfer systems, and other custom positioning mechanisms.

"Having the DualVee Vacuum Wheels selected as a Golden Mousetrap Awards finalist is an honor we share with our customers who trust us to deliver the best engineered products and expertise to solve their needs, while also providing increased efficiencies and accelerated time to market," said Pamela Kan, president of Bishop-Wisecarver.

DualVee Vacuum Wheels are part of Bishop-Wisecarver's DualVee® line, a complete product offering of component-based linear guide wheel bearings to include 90-degree guide wheels, wheel mounting bushings and journals, 90-degree linear guide tracks, wheel covers, lubricators and accessories. DualVee Vacuum Wheels are made of vacuum compatible AISI 440C and 304 stainless steel and grease, capable of ultra high vacuum down to 10-9 mbar and the all stainless steel construction provides for good chemical resistance over a wide range of temperatures in challenging vacuum applications.

About Bishop-Wisecarver Group
Bishop-Wisecarver Group (BWG) is a woman-owned family of WBENC-certified companies that works with manufacturers to engineer, manufacture, and build linear and rotary motion solutions, custom complex assemblies, and optimal embedded intelligence systems. Through the integration of mechanical, electrical, software, control and systems design engineering expertise, 60+ years of experience and 20,000+ unique clients, BWG continues to provide a single point of service that results in custom designs, increased efficiencies and accelerated time to market.

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Pittsburg, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/19/2014 -- Bishop-Wisecarver Group President Selected as one of the Astra Leadership Forum Committee Representatives

Pittsburg, Calif. – November 18, 2014 – Bishop-Wisecarver Group, a WBENC-certified, woman-owned family of companies, announced today that their President, Pamela Kan, has been selected as one of the Astra Leadership Forum Committee Representatives (FCR). Astra is a regional partner organization for the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the national organization providing certification for women-owned business. Kan will serve in this new role while also maintaining her position as Astra's founding chair of the Women in Manufacturing Group.

Astra was established in 2000 as a non-profit committed to driving real change for women in business. Astra is a regional partner office (RPO) for WBENC and represents successful women business owners in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Northern California and Washington.

The Leadership Forum serves in an advisory capacity providing input and feedback to WBENC. Forum leaders represent the voice of all women business enterprises and participate in programming opportunities such as development and networking with corporate and government entities.

"Serving with Astra is a great opportunity to help other female business owners connect, learn and find success," stated Pamela Kan, President of Bishop-Wisecarver Group. "In this new role, I look forward to being a liaison between the Astra's WBEs businesses and WBENC so that our specific regional concerns and ideas can be addressed. By working together, we will all be more successful."

Kan will begin her new role as Astra's Leadership Forum Committee Representative in November at the annual WBENC Committee and Board of Directors Meeting in Maryland.

About the Bishop-Wisecarver Group - http://www.bwc.com
Bishop-Wisecarver Group is a woman-owned family of WBENC-certified companies in its second generation, and has remained one of the most respected names in custom automation solutions and guided motion technology since 1950. The San Francisco Bay Area company manufactures, stocks and distributes guided motion components and systems for linear, rotary and curved track applications. Bishop-Wisecarver products are used worldwide in industries such as packaging, medical device manufacturing, wood processing, food processing and semiconductor fabrication.

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