Food and Beverages depend upon maintaining critical temperatures
Not cold enough or not hot enough may affect your health.
Food and beverages not refrigerated at the correct temperature may spoil.
Food not cooked / prepared at the correct temperature may contain bacteria from E. Coli to Salmonella.
Food & Beverage Service
Ovens , Warmers, Toasters
Cookers, Steamers, Fryers
Refrigerators, Freezers, Ice Makers
Slicers, Blenders, Dishwashers
Conveyors, Dispensers, Packaging
Store Smart Shelves
Hazardous Location Certifications
Challenges
Explosive environments such as flour processing, grain storage, breweries and distilleries may require hazardous location certification. Power supplies provide regulated voltages to drive motors, relays, and power electronic controls. As power supplies produce heat and contain high voltages and/or high currents, they need to be thoroughly tested to ensure sparks and high temperatures will not compromise system safety.
Our Solutions
We have many supplies with a variety of hazardous location certifications. Power supplies with hazardous location certification make system designs easier to certify and ensure safety to the end user.
ATEX, IEC EX, GL
Class 1 Division 2
Factory Mutual (Class 1 and Class 2)
AC Power Dropout
Challenges
High speed bottling and packaging among other processes can be severely affected by sags of the AC input line voltage. Having a power supply that is SEMi F47 compliant, that can ride through these sags, can alleviate poor system performance during this type of event.
Our Solutions
The vast majority of our products are designed to perform continuously during these AC line dips and disruptions.
Peak current demands from the power supply exist during start-up and during processes. These peaks can usually be attributed to solenoid relays, pumps and motor controllers. Costly mistakes in power supply selection can be made by not taking into account the peak current demands. Repetitive peak loading on a power supply that is not designed for the task can lead to early failures.
Our Solutions
Selecting a power supply capable of continuous power at the peak load may may result in a greater cost and larger product size. We offer products that support peak current demands and are capable of doing so reliably.
Operator vicinity environments require quiet or silent power supplies. Power supplies with high acoustic noise from cooling fans disturb operators and high audible noise can also lead to fatigue.
Our Solutions
Many of our products have convection or conduction ratings allowing silent operation.
High-end equipment for Food and Beverage markets require long product lifecycles and high reliability.
Our Solutions
Our products offer very long life cycles (Up to 20+ years) achieved by using high quality E-Caps and conservative electrical and thermal derating backed by the long warranties (some up to limited life time).
A development process requiring products to meet or exceed stringent internal design guidelines. Products are subjected to a series of rigorous reviews with brutally honest and logical judgements at each stage.
Large, global, fully-qualified component database giving economy of scale and long product life cycles
Worldwide unified design standards
Best in class operating life times, field failures are reduced by designing E-caps for 15+ year life, applying proper electrical and thermal derating, and use of high quality components
Higher efficiency and advanced thermal management result in lower operating temps, longer life and lower total cost of ownership
Detailed EVT/DVT test plan incorporating lessons learned from decades of experience in field applications
Uncompromising Product Qualification consistent with IPC9592B guidelines - HALT, TCT, THB, HASS, shock and vibration, demonstrated life testing
Reliability models and component stress analysis; MTBF, Bel-core, Mil-Std-217 and DMTBF analysis in production
Quality can never be assured by final inspection. Quality is an integral part of everything we do. Our process includes a tightly controlled approved vendor list (AVL), incoming inspection, rigorous testing, field proven topologies and components, test data validation, and extraordinary process reliability. These factors combine to generate elite product quality levels.
Industry-leading warranties
Rigid component AVL selection and management process
A supply chain committed to utilize only authorized sources of supply
Advanced statistical controls, Process capability index – Cp, CpK requirements
Pilot production process to study processes and guarantee high manufacturing yields within specification
Many process inspection controls including checkpoints at component, sub-assembly, and final product levels
Professional Failure Analysis to identify root cause to component level
Corrective Action reports (8-D) accompanied by extensive technical support to help resolve application issues and prevent additional failures
Our position as a highly experienced, leading global supplier means we can capitalize on our extensive Advanced Technology Research. Our collaboration with top universities and our expanding portfolio of over 700 patents offers assurances we will provide the next generation of innovative, leading edge power solutions to our customers. Highly motivated R&D teams, located in design facilities worldwide, apply knowledge of the key attributes from a myriad of different applications gained from years of experience.
Leaders in development and practical application of advanced technologies
Higher Efficiencies – leading to less waste heat generation, enabling greater power densities and smaller product sizes
Detailed thermal analysis with derating, allowing peak power requirements commonly found in medical equipment to be delivered reliably and safely without oversizing (and overpaying) for the power supply
TDK-Lambda has benefited from TDK's acknowledged expertise in ferrite and multilayer capacitors by jointly developing advanced components to improve the efficiency and performance of TDK-Lambda's power supply products
Integrating the latest components (GaN semiconductors), topologies (bridgeless totem pole PFC), and design techniques (full digital control)into our latest product designs such as the PFH
In house firmware and software development to develop IP and respond quickly to customer modification requests
Manufacturing is done in TDK-Lambda owned factories. This allows advanced process development and new manufacturing techniques can be seamlessly incorporated into products.
Highly automated DVT and thermal characterization testing process allows testing over a broad range of operating conditions and guarantees consistent results
TDK-Lambda has the unique ability to leverage our global platforms to best utilize the strength of our worldwide engineering teams. This enhances our abilities in quality, reliability, customer support, and innovation for new products.
Six Global Engineering centers of expertise; Japan, China, Singapore, UK, Israel, USA
Attracting & retaining Good Talent - TDK has R&D centers near major universities (Bristol, UK; Tokyo, Japan; Karmiel, Israel)
All TDK-Lambda engineering and sales centers, plus our directly owned factories are ISO9001 and ISO14001 certified
Extensive library of innovative field-proven designs
Comprehensive in-house qualification and validation facilities with FA down to component level
TDK-Lambda has celebrated more than 71 years in the business, demonstrating our longevity in the highly competitive world of power supply design and manufacturing. Since 1945, we have developed a worldwide reputation and heritage for high quality, robust power supplies. As of October 1, 2008, Lambda was fully integrated as part of the Power Systems Business Group of TDK Corporation and became TDK-Lambda Corporation, Inc. Our parent organization, TDK Corporation, is a leading $12+ Billion global electronics company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. TDK was established in 1935 to commercialize "ferrite", a key material in electronics and magnetic products.
Diversified Market strategy (Industrial, Medical, Telecom, COTs) has enabled TDK-Lambda to weather the economic market changes
TDK-Lambda sales rank in the top 10 global power supply companies
Uniquely we can provide the optimum manufacturing strategy for your needs in our own fully equipped plants from low volume to high volume manufacturing. We have multiple strategically located warehouses, offering a full menu of logistic services including tailor-made solutions.
Samples, pilots and prototype units from a channel strategy geared around speed & availability
Factories designed and equipped with logistical capabilities capable to scale during growth cycles
TDK-Lambda owned warehouses located in all five (5) key geographic locations
Established set of Distribution partners, carrying more than $25 million in inventory
Program End-of-Life logistic strategies
Power+ Solutions is an extension of value add, where we integrate more of the power assembly around the power supply to offer avenues to increased productivity, lower costs, and offer more flexibility
Our Value Add Solutions & Capabilites is an extension of our standard product platforms, where we integrate more of the assembly and external features around the power supply to offer avenues to increased productivity, lower costs and more flexibility. Our New Jersey manufacturing facility is ITAR certified.
