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The Advanced Energy (AE) team recently returned from Düsseldorf, Germany where we attended the biennial Glasstec trade fair. This event brought together the global glass manufacturing industry gathered to explore technologies, trends and challenges. We connected with customers, partners and industry experts from all over the world and discussed the challenges they face as they seek to drive the industry forward.

The 2024 Furnaces North America (FNA) trade show is a premier event for industrial heat treatment. It attracts global attendees and highlights advances and challenges affecting heat treatment processes. The show offered insights into emerging industry trends, including energy efficiency, regulatory compliance and process certification standards.

Advanced Energy has long been a pioneer in precision power for the most demanding applications in semiconductor manufacturing, industrial equipment, medical instruments, and data center computing and communications. Our customers rely on us to deliver high-performance, reliable standard and customized products that meet their exact needs and specifications. Often Advanced Energy’s power solutions are critical to our customers in shrinking their time-to-market and maximizing competitive advantage.

Many industrial manufacturing processes require monitoring and control of temperature at key points in the operation to ensure the highest product quality, maximum throughput and optimized yield. To meet these demands, innovations are driving new precise and reliable thermal measurement solutions. Traditional technologies such as thermocouples and thermistors are giving way to more sophisticated optical techniques that deliver improved reliability and repeatability needed by modern thermal processes. This has led to the growing use of fiber optic sensors that are immune to electromagnetic interference (EMI) common in industrial environments, and non-contact pyrometers that measure precise thermal radiation.

Medical diagnostic and surgical systems must follow some of the world’s strictest safety standards. The best known is the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 60601, which ensures there is no risk to patients and/or operators, but there are others to consider when developing healthcare products for worldwide markets.

A new approach to LED lighting systems offers tangible benefits to the bottom line across a range of applications. This includes horticulture operations, with industrial-scale greenhouses enabling larger and more productive harvests, as well as underground or multi-story parking garages, warehouses and other industrial facilities.

The reliability issue is a significant pain point because a so-called “truck roll” (a visit by a service technician to the base station to repair or replace a component, circuit board or other assembly) is a costly last resort that service providers want to avoid. Unplanned downtime and maintenance costs can mount very quickly, reaching many hundreds of times the cost of any specific part or system that has failed.

It is increasingly used in construction applications and is also essential to solar energy components, such as photovoltaic panels, that will be key to a sustainable future. Alongside this, billions of mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones have been shipped. Every single one of these devices relies on glass for the screen, which is the primary human-machine interface (HMI).