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About Polymagnet
Most magnets have one job: north on one side, south on the other. Polymagnet exists because Correlated Magnetics Research found a way to program a pattern into that field — turning a simple magnet into a designed part with real, repeatable behavior.
Why Polymagnets
What's special about Polymagnets
Most off-the-shelf magnets have a simple nature — north on one side, south on the other. Some hard-tooled custom magnets have simple configurations of north and south. Polymagnets start from a different premise entirely.
A software-driven magnetizer
CMR invented a new, software-driven magnetizer that opens up entirely new magnetic systems. Rather than simple arrangements of north and south, customizable patterns are designed in software and programmed into a magnet in minutes. Not weeks.
Customize feel and function
Polymagnets are fundamentally different than conventional magnets. You can now customize the feel and function of a magnet system. In the race to design new and differentiated product, Polymagnets are an incredible new design tool to precisely tool the feel and function of a product.
Prototype to production, in days
Polymagnets are manufactured in any quantity, from prototype to production volumes. Since the pattern is created in software, it can be changed and new prototypes delivered in days — with a catalog of pre-engineered designs already built, from incredibly strong holding magnets to magnet systems that spring, latch, release and align.
Where it started
History
The technology behind every Polymagnet traces back to one person chasing a toy idea for his grandchildren.
Correlated Magnetics' co-founder and Chief Scientist, Larry Fullerton, was inspired by youthful imagination to create a self-assembling toy to spark his grandchildren's interest in math, science, and physics. His idea was to shake a box with various pieces and parts that would assemble into a magnetic toy. Using his scientific background in the area of wireless communications, Larry explored creating the toy object by arranging magnets in patterns or “codes” borrowed from signal processing theory and creating complex magnetic fields. He eventually “encoded” specific magnets based on these experimental complex magnetic arrays and crafted the technology driving Correlated Magnetics Research today.
Leadership
Management team
The team leading Correlated Magnetics Research and the Polymagnet product line.
Tim Costello
Chief Executive Officer & Board ChairmanMelissa Morman
Chief Experience Officer & Board MemberJake Zimmerman
Legal Counsel & Board MemberGreg Miller
Chief Financial OfficerSteve Murray
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