Conexant has created a new set of advanced algorithms to help deliver a clear and easily understandable signal from a far-field source. We have all experienced the sense of frustration when losing the one remote that controls everything from the television’s surround sound to the blinds in the bedroom. What if we were able to…
Custom Washers and Stampings for the Appliance Market from Boker’s
Boker’s, Inc. announces its ability to custom manufacture washer and stamping solutions for virtually any appliance application. With over 90 years of experience, Boker’s washers and stampings offer an ideal solution in diverse appliances, including air conditioning units, ventilation hoods, washing machines, dryers and many more—meeting appliance manufactures’ exact specifications. Washers are available with outside…
How Whirlpool uses PTC CAD and PLM technology
Home appliances aren’t what they used to be. Consider, for example, washers and dryers. At this week’s PlanetPTC conference, Fred Bellio, CIO of Whirlpool’s Global Product Organization, and Jeff Burk, Director of Whirlpool’s Constellation Program Management Office, described some of the complexities of his company’s Maytag Maxima line of washers and dryers. Washers and dryers […]
Design for Manufacturability: DDM Changes the Rules
Did you know that direct digital manufacturing (DDM) can free you from the restraints of conventional manufacturing? By doing so, it allows you to expand your creativity, fine tune your ideas, chop weeks from your product development process and help your company save money. In this 20 minute webinar, we’ll show you how DDM can…
AC and DC Fans for High Dust and Moisture Environments
Providing design engineers with a wide range of DC and AC fans for dusty or moist environment applications, Orion Fans announced the availability of an IP55 rating for a significant number of its fans. The availability of this rating in most DC and selected AC fan series enables their use in several applications including certain…
Create High-Definition Designs with Haptic Driver
Tactile feedback for research and consumer use is growing. The latest device comes from Texas Instruments. The DRV8662 is an integrated piezo haptic driver for mobile consumer and industrial designs. It features an integrated 105 V boost converter, power diode, and 50 V to 200 V peak-to-peak (Vpp) fully differential amplifier, resulting in a 50%…
Solving Assembly Challenges in Reduced Footprint Applications
Smaller, lighter, and thinner electronic devices and their inherently restrictive design envelopes present several challenges on the road to their assembly and manufacture. Hardware for component attachment must perform reliably, despite the shrinking and limited footprints for fastener placement and installation. In addition, designers face reduced parts counts for weight savings and production economies. An entirely…
C & K Expands Product Offering with Acquisition of Comax Industrial Co. Ltd
C&K Components, a leading international supplier of pushbutton switches, tact switches, toggle and rocker switches, and smart card interconnect devices, has expanded its switch product offering with the acquisition of Comax Industrial Co. Ltd. An innovative designer and manufacturer of switch products and assemblies, Comax Industrial Co. manufactures more than 250 million parts annually for…
Pomona-gruppen AB Invests 10MSEK in Smarthome Solution Provider H & D Wireless AB
Pomona-gruppen AB, a major Swedish industry group invests 10MSEK in a total round of 11,5MSEK in H&D Wireless AB. The technology from H&D Wireless is a world class Wi-Fi system solution that offers IPv4/v6-communication between the Cloud service, the customer’s mobile phone (android or iPhone) and to devices in the home to monitor and control…
How 3D Printers Help Black & Decker get Products to Market Faster
In this webinar, Christopher Barretta from the Stanley Black & Decker Industrial Design team discusses how the Objet Geometries PolyJet Matrix™ machines have improved the prototyping and evaluation process for the next generation of products coming to market. Through the use of 3D printing technology, the prototyping team delivers conceptual models faster, getting ideas in…
Connectors for High Pressure Filling Applications
Refrigeration Quick Disconnect (RQD) connectors reliably connect to refrigerant lines for charging or evacuating cooling appliances and applications under high pressure. They are rated up to 750 psi. They are available in 1/4-in. and 3/8-in. male PCU, Hansen or similar style tips. These connectors work with components that must handle the higher pressures called for…
Join the first Design World Tweet Chat on Feb. 2
Join Design World on Wednesday, February 2nd, for the inaugural Design World Tweet Chat. Our entire editorial team will be tweeting with you on the topic of engineering education. To participate, just include #DesignWorld in your tweets that day, from 10 a.m. through 5 p.m. Eastern time. You can comment, respond to other tweets, even…
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions launches updated iPhone App
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has launched an updated version of the recently released iPhone app “ISO Fits & Tolerances” that allows switching between inch and metric measurements. Providing results based on the ISO 286 System of Limits and Fits, the updated version also adds additional tolerance classes and is available in English, Spanish, German and Dutch.…
TPK Touch Solutions Selects Aras PLM Software
Aras announced that TPK Touch Solutions, Inc. selelcted Aras enterprise PLM software to streamline their product development process and increase customer response time. As an Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) for smart phone, MP3/4, touch computer, and GPS providers, the ability to maintain and secure customer intellectual property and respond rapidly to evolving customer needs is…
Point-Of-Purchase Display Fixtures from SDP
New Hyde Park, NY — A new series of point-of purchase display fixtures from Stock Drive Products (ISO 9001:2000 Registered Manufacturer) feature spring powered reels. These display fixtures, identified as the A3Z55-… Series are stocked in 3 different sizes for displaying small products such as appliances and communication devices. These P.O.P. units each contain a…
McGill Lighted Rocker Switches
ROSEMONT, IL – Aiming to provide its OEM customers with greater variety and choice, McGill is now offering a broad line of lighted rocker switches available in several attractive designs including illuminated, angled and curved rocker versions. McGill is targeting its lighted rocker switches at the appliance, panel board, office equipment and consumer electronics markets.…
The Wonderful World of Piezoelectric Film
Piezoelectric film is made of multiple, tiny, interlocking crystal domains that have positive and negative charges. When compressive or tensile mechanical stress is applied to the elements the crystal generates a proportional voltage — the property of an ideal dynamic strain gauge. Even a small bit of piezoelectric film can generate thousands of volts and…
GE Ingenuity Throws Dallas Cowboys Stadium to Technological Forefront
CLEVELAND, OH — As the largest NFL venue ever built, the Dallas Cowboys’ new billion-dollar stadium is an engineering marvel. GE’s contribution to the project—cost-effective and energy-efficient lighting and electrical distribution equipment—has satisfied the Texas-sized expectations of the Cowboys organization. For GE Appliances & Lighting, the charge was to go on offense, developing and delivering…
Wilbrecht LEDCO’s Redesigned V4 Microswitches
St. Paul, MN–Wilbrecht LEDCO, Inc. announces its newly redesigned MP500 series of V4 microswitches. The improved V4 microswitches offer a reduced differential movement of 0.05mm and below to better accommodate industrial applications such as electromagnetic brakes or pressure switches that require very small differential movements to operate correctly. Although compact V4 switches deliver size and…
Silent Running
Acoustic nonwoven material improves sound absorption of home appliances, automobile interiors, subway floors, office walls as well as marine and airline applications that must meet noise requirements. The material provides ‚“the silence‚†within the newest quieter home appliances from major manufacturers. It helps manufacturers meet lower noise requirements without adding bulk to the composite material.…
Clarifying Agent Clears Up Washing Machines
When Suggar, a leading appliance maker in Brazil, began offering transparent top doors instead of opaque plastic doors on three of its most popular washing machine models, sales went up. According to Marcelo Emrich Soares, manufacturing director, Suggar, its customers like the look of clear plastic. Initially, the company used styrene acrylonitrile (SAN) to provide…
Photocopier Market Benefits from Belts
Equipment in the photocopier market is becoming more complex every day. These new developments are driving demands for greater production speed and increased levels of quality. Fenner Precision, a design and development company of belts, pulleys, and tires used in paper propulsion and motion control applications, manufactures a reinforced dual-durometer belt for photocopiers and digital…
STMicroelectronics Enhances VIPer Family
Geneva – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has introduced the VIPer17 off-line switched-mode converter, which integrates an 800V avalanche-rugged MOSFET as well as numerous features to save external components and ensure efficient operation during standby mode. Constant-current operation with an adjustable set point allows use with all mains voltages in SMPS (switched-mode power supply) designs up to…
Kingbright Ultra-Bright 0.5W SMD LEDs
Kingbright Corporation achieves another milestone in developing the ultra-bright 0.5W SMD LEDs with high quality and robust reliability. Available in various color selections (blue, white, warm white, green, yellow, red) as well as RGB Full Color option at 120mA per channel, Kingbright’s Ultra-Bright 0.5W SMD LED’s vibrant and compact package with wide viewing angle of…
New Materials Quiet Noisy Appliances
Jim McKevitt, 3M Acoustic Solutions, St. Paul, MN According to a recent survey by Ipsos, consumers are happy with their washing machines, dishwashers, vacuums, and other appliances. They have only one complaint – noise. What’s more, the survey found that consumers are willing to pay a premium for a branded sound blanket such as ThinsulateTM…