Looking at a product from the customer's perspective can sometimes be the key to developing a new technology. That's what happened when engineers at Trombetta Motion Technologies, Inc. (Menomonee Falls, WI) started looking at industrial solenoid products, and their inherent shortcomings, from the perspective of OEMs. "We started with a clean slate approach," recalls Dennis Mailer, Trombetta's vice-president of engineering. Although his company had made industrial solenoids, relays, and other electrical components for years, their new Equalizer would be designed from scratch. "The only part of the past we clung to was the acquired knowledge we had in this area." The Trombetta engineers sought to eliminate common problems they regularly see with work solenoids on industrial equipment, as well as simplify existing systems consisting of solenoids, controls, and the wire harnesses connecting them. "We strive for elegant solutions," says Mailer. "This undertaking was handled with an awareness and acquired knowledge of both currently available electronic technologies, and trends in available component costs-versus-performance."
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