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Discovering Precision Power Leadership at Advanced Energy’s Analyst Day
December 06, 2024
On November 19, 2024, Advanced Energy (AE) hosted its 2024 Analyst Day in New York City and provided a comprehensive view of the company to Wall Street analysts and investors. The executive team shared the company’s strategies, growth prospects, new products, and updated financial model. Investors also had the opportunity to view AE’s precision power products at demo stations and learned about the
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Understanding Forward and Reflected Power in RF Systems
January 14, 2025
Reflected power is a fundamental concept in RF systems, yet it remains widely misunderstood. The term often evokes images of wasted energy and inefficient systems, but that is not the full, accurate picture. This blog explores forward and reflected power, clarifies common misconceptions, and discusses their relevance the demands of RF plasma power in semiconductor manufacturing.
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Taking the Temperature of Innovation
November 04, 2024
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.
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How the Latest Innovations in Switched-Mode Power Conversion Boosts Efficiency, Flexibility and Reliability in Today’s Power Systems
August 27, 2024
Power system designers today face intense pressure to raise conversion efficiency and save energy as they strive to deliver sustainably improved performance. One key to reaching greater efficiency is switched-mode power conversion.
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Understanding Forward and Reflected Power in RF Systems
January 14, 2025
Reflected power is a fundamental concept in RF systems, yet it remains widely misunderstood. The term often evokes images of wasted energy and inefficient systems, but that is not the full, accurate picture. This blog explores forward and reflected power, clarifies common misconceptions, and discusses their relevance the demands of RF plasma power in semiconductor manufacturing.
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Discovering Precision Power Leadership at Advanced Energy’s Analyst Day
December 06, 2024
On November 19, 2024, Advanced Energy (AE) hosted its 2024 Analyst Day in New York City and provided a comprehensive view of the company to Wall Street analysts and investors. The executive team shared the company’s strategies, growth prospects, new products, and updated financial model. Investors also had the opportunity to view AE’s precision power products at demo stations and learned about the
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Industrial Electric Furnaces: Cost Reduction with SCR Power Controllers
December 04, 2024
Thermal processing control systems, such as the Rockwell Automation® Programmable Automation Controller, are fundamental to these operations. In addition, temperature measurement loops are required for control and shut-off. These are typically either thermocouples or pyrometers for harsh environments. Power control architectures that regulate energy input to furnace heaters via SCR power controll
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Optimizing Electroporation: The Role of High Voltage Power Supplies
November 26, 2024
The effectiveness of introducing substances such as antibodies, drugs, viruses, or any other materials into a cell is greatly enhanced by using a modern technique: electroporation. However, the success of the electroporation process is highly dependent upon the quality of the high voltage power supply.
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OCP Global Summit 2024: Shifts from Open, Standardized Hardware?
November 25, 2024
Since founded by Facebook (now Meta) in 2011, the Open Compute Project (OCP) has been at the forefront of developing open standards for both enterprise and data center applications. It is backed by other hyperscale and enterprise entities such as Google, Microsoft, Dell and HPE. Traditionally, the OCP Summit has been highly influenced by Meta’s latest developments and how it is driving the industry. As OCP evolves, new standards and different approaches have been proposed as alternatives or additions, such as the Open19 19-inch rack solution supported by LinkedIn a few years ago. This year, the Summit saw some new trends in standards and form factors.
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Top Trends from Glasstec 2024: Sustainability, Advancement of DC Power and Emerging Markets
November 21, 2024
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.
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Furnaces North America 2024 – The Buzz? Energy Efficiency and Standards Compliance
November 11, 2024
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.
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Innovating Faster for Customer Success
November 07, 2024
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.
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Taking the Temperature of Innovation
November 04, 2024
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.