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Displays & Indicators: Compelling Color
In a mature consumer electronics market, good engineering alone won’t guarantee a product’s success. To rise above the crowd and win over consumers, a product needs to offer something more: an engaging and appealing user interface. One can appreciate the power of advanced user-interface design by looking at Apple’s iPhone. The iPhone was not the first touch-screen smart phone, but it was the first to add the “wow” factor. The iPhone’s graphically rich, seductive, and simple user interface makes complex technology accessible to a younger, trend-seeking audience, not just the tech-savvy business professionals traditionally targeted by the segment.
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Gas Technology: Good Looking, Good Cooking
Burners on gas cooktops and rangetops have come a long way over the years. They can simmer so low as to melt chocolate and hold it in that melted state for hours. Yet that same burner can boil up to 4 quarts of water in a little more than 10 minutes. The cooktops available today can come in a variety of sizes and styles, differing from manufacturer to manufacturer. While different in many ways, at their core, gas burners found on cooktops and rangetops are very similar. Gas flows from a main gas valve to the burner through a venturi tube, which allows the gas to properly mix with air for clean combustion. The mixture flows into the burner where it is lit by an igniter. From this stepping off point, however, technology begins to vary.
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Tyco Electronics
The PolySwitch circuit protection devices are functionally equivalent to the company’s existing RXEF overcurrent protection devices, but are available in a form factor that is 30 percent smaller.
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Rosenberg
The backward curved centrifugal fans are available with or without housing in five sizes, from 16 in. to 25 in. The fans deliver up to six inches of static pressure and have a maximum capacity of 16,450 cfm.
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Displays & Indicators: Compelling Color
In a mature consumer electronics market, good engineering alone won’t guarantee a product’s success. To rise above the crowd and win over consumers, a product needs to offer something more: an engaging and appealing user interface. One can appreciate the power of advanced user-interface design by looking at Apple’s iPhone. The iPhone was not the first touch-screen smart phone, but it was the first to add the “wow” factor. The iPhone’s graphically rich, seductive, and simple user interface makes complex technology accessible to a younger, trend-seeking audience, not just the tech-savvy business professionals traditionally targeted by the segment.
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Connectors: Know about Glow?
Since successfully addressing the well publicized issues created by the RoHS and WEEE directives on the restriction of hazardous substances, the connector industry is now facing a new challenge -— Glow Wire. Although the IEC 60335-1 standard is primarily relevant in Europe, North American companies need to comply in order to service their global customers.
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Displays & Indicators: Compelling Color
In a mature consumer electronics market, good engineering alone won’t guarantee a product’s success. To rise above the crowd and win over consumers, a product needs to offer something more: an engaging and appealing user interface. One can appreciate the power of advanced user-interface design by looking at Apple’s iPhone. The iPhone was not the first touch-screen smart phone, but it was the first to add the “wow” factor. The iPhone’s graphically rich, seductive, and simple user interface makes complex technology accessible to a younger, trend-seeking audience, not just the tech-savvy business professionals traditionally targeted by the segment.
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Gas Technology: Good Looking, Good Cooking
Burners on gas cooktops and rangetops have come a long way over the years. They can simmer so low as to melt chocolate and hold it in that melted state for hours. Yet that same burner can boil up to 4 quarts of water in a little more than 10 minutes. The cooktops available today can come in a variety of sizes and styles, differing from manufacturer to manufacturer. While different in many ways, at their core, gas burners found on cooktops and rangetops are very similar. Gas flows from a main gas valve to the burner through a venturi tube, which allows the gas to properly mix with air for clean combustion. The mixture flows into the burner where it is lit by an igniter. From this stepping off point, however, technology begins to vary.
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Quality & Standards: Chemical Content
Just as the manufacturers of the world thought they were getting a stranglehold on the compliance requirements in the European Union (EU), the EU throws in another regulation to comply with. On June 1, 2007, the Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals Regulation (EC 1907/2006), more commonly known as REACH, came into force. The REACH Regulation was created with the intention to protect human health, as well as the environment, by reducing the risk of harmful chemical exposure.
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Motors: Motion Without Magnets
Most motors are made of metal and they use permanent magnets, electromagnets, or a combination of both to induce motion. While these magnetic motors are perfectly suitable for the vast number of potential applications there are some applications, particularly in the medical industry, that require motors that are not made of ferrous materials and that do not use magnets.
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Quality & Standards: Chemical Content
Just as the manufacturers of the world thought they were getting a stranglehold on the compliance requirements in the European Union (EU), the EU throws in another regulation to comply with. On June 1, 2007, the Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals Regulation (EC 1907/2006), more commonly known as REACH, came into force. The REACH Regulation was created with the intention to protect human health, as well as the environment, by reducing the risk of harmful chemical exposure.
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Software: Speedy 3D
In today’s business climate, flexibility drives the ability of product manufacturers to stay competitive. As the costs of labor, materials and transportation fluctuate, manufacturers must continually assess the profitability of their design and supply chains. Consumer trends and new manufacturing processes further compel them to seek innovative ways of bringing new products to market quickly and efficiently.
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