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Anders are 70 Years Young And what a journey it has been

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Anders are 70 Years Young And what a journey it has been

Just as we celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, marking our Queen’s 70 years on the throne, we’d like to also honor our 70th year milestone.

In the 1950’s, things were very different than they are now, the average house price was £1,800.00 (can you imagine)?

The technology landscape was emerging with the instant camera being demonstrated and the commercial microwave being produced.  Many say that life was simpler in these days, and perhaps it was, but the intention of innovation through the ages has always been that advancements mean convenience, and in today’s world, the purpose of progress, is to simplify everything, whilst ensuring decisions are made strategically by being data driven.  Take that instant camera and now look at your mobile phone.  Technology has converged.  In the power of your palm is not only the ability to get snappy happy, but to utilize maps, banking, social media, etc.  How much does that simplify your life?

And this is true whether you’re in a business to consumer (B2C) or business to business (B2B) environment.  In fact, modern life often intertwines both. Look around yourself right now. Whilst we may work from home, digital technology enables us to have a face-to-face meeting with people all over the world, removing the barrier of time and distance. Our mobile devices allow us to do business, manage money, check medical health, and order our groceries via intelligent apps Our homes have smart meters to track energy usage and change habits, our coffee machines have smart functions to remember our favorite drink.

As we look at Anders and our own transformation though time, from display delivery, a component part of our customers complete build, to being a strategic end-to-end product realization partner, we’d like to celebrate our success through our 70-year story.

Why customers come to Anders

Our customers tell us that they have partnered with and will continue to partner with Anders due to the power of our network. Our operational and supply chain teams don’t look for transactional customers, they look to build networks.  Our partnership networks benefit our customers; from design, to development, to manufacturing and beyond.  Keeping your supply chain simple, reducing your touch points, and therefore risk, we can be with our customers through their entire journey from point A to point Z and then back again for their next generation and their next generation, building long-term relationships, that have stood the test of time. 70 years to be exact.

The Need for Data

The well-known marketing mantra of ‘if you build it, they will come’, whilst this sounds wonderful, it’s now no longer right.  The pendulum has swung.  The power now sits with the person.  The individual who can join many others to vote on the success of your creation. Before you buy something, you look for a review. Before you book your holiday, you look for a review. Your experience, whether good or bad can now be shared and reshared, put into content, or taken out of context.  Mention in your home that you’d like a new alarm system, and on your social media, up pops adverts for solution providers, five minutes of research enables you to buy the one that has the highest score on Trust Pilot. That’s the new power of marketing.

Data, data, data. Let’s put ourselves into the shoes of that alarm provider.  Once upon a time they’d have been quite simply that: an alarm provider.  Now however, they benefit from a touch panel display that is designed to be placed within any environment, any temperature, any lighting condition, vandal proof, solar panel connection (conserving energy is a differentiator.) It needs to be aesthetically pleasing to fit many situations and be discreet.

But this electronics product company isn’t simply a buy our product, transactional company.  Aside from core competence of designing and building alarm systems, they have the ability to gather data that not only helps them to continuously improve their alarm system from one generation to another as they can monitor end-user performance, but they can also, via their embedded display system understand their end-user’s behavior in a greater way. Is there a geographical hotspot for alarms? Is there a rise in commercial or domestic use? Is there a size of business variation? Is there a type of business difference? Linking to their insurance provider even expands this reach of data or how behavior is researched and influenced.

The same approach can be used across almost any industry from smart utility metering where data collected can help us reduce utility bills and improve services, to healthcare which can provide personalized drug treatment and improve drug delivery to patients of the future.

Gathering data is intelligence to drive strategic decision making, and that’s the gold dust.

So, life may have seemed simpler in the 50’s however, today, our connection to intelligence, for insight will help us to shape tomorrow’s world.

This is why at Anders, and through our partnership ecosystem, we can offer our customers a vertically integrated and seamless journey from design concept to successful product launch and beyond.  We fulfil their primary requirements to bring their product to life, but it’s the role we play throughout the entire PLC that adds true value and differentiates Anders.

The display and embedded technology experts within Anders have reimagined the product conceptualization to realization experience to provide one that is both additive and addictive for our customers. One that not only enhance their business, portfolio, and strategic decision making via the learnings their technology is capable of, but they will also understand their own operations more effectively e.g., usage, downtime, demographics etc, all of which are essential for the health and wellbeing of their organization.  The result is a more sustainable company, with less waste at a time that we are all more climate and cost conscious.

So, quite simply put, partner with Anders to enhance your business through innovation, imagination, intelligence, to deliver a more insightful and intuitive end-user interface.

About Anders

Anders Electronics. is the market leader for solutions in display, embedded, and LED technology.

From design to development through to the supply of world class products for global B2B customers, they are the engineering and industry specialists, dedicated to making electronic touchscreen technology engaging and enjoyable.

Over 30 years ago, Anders started designing, developing, and delivering customized display solutions for the non-consumer industry and they haven’t stopped innovating since! Anders features a history of reliability and innovation, and lives to solve display engineering challenges.

Anders harnesses their expertise in display, embedded computing and touch control technology to help differentiate their customers’ products through exceptional design and engineering.

With an unrivalled depth of service, scope of engineering skill, scale of capabilities, global manufacturing reach, and speed of operations, the Anders portfolio is the most comprehensive in the industry.

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Anders Talks About Electric Vehicle Charging Stations: The Challenges the Market Holds and the Solutions That They Can Present

The electric vehicle (EV) market is projected to reach USD 802.75 billion by 2028, expanding at a CAGR of 21.6% during the forecast period, 2021 – 2028.

Deloitte forecasts that over 25.3 million pure electric vehicles will be sold by 2030. With the rise in EV use, there will be greater strains on countries’ charging networks, and private businesses are perfectly placed to capitalise on the growing demand for public EV chargers (EVC).

 The Challenge

 A leading brand within the EVC market approached us as they wanted to develop their charging system to a new generation HPC (High Power Charger) in accordance with market drivers and the need to scale as the market volume increases.

 High Power Chargers (HPCs) refer to Level 3 DC fast charging at a rate of 50 kW or more.   Based on a variety of industry announcements, using variants of current battery chemistries and battery pack designs, the time to recharge is expected to be reduced to below approximately 15 minutes to charge to 80%. 

 They’re key demands included the requirement for:

  • Optical excellence through best-in-class displays
  • To be able to withstand conditions in an outdoor environment, including extremes in temperature, rain, dust and grit
  • To be robust and vandal proof
  • Aesthetically pleasing to meet their brand values
  • The user engagement to be a positive experience
  • The embedded system to be able to support processing demands of fast charging and driving the User Interface GUI and any long-term updates
  • Industrial operating temperatures and long production lifetime

The Solution

 At Anders, we need to be able to deliver the technology that is currently available to us, but also stay abreast of future technological trends within emerging markets.

We work side by side with our customers to integrate the best solution which will help them reach their goal to lessen the gap between the time it takes to charge, versus fuel/refuel. We are constantly reviewing our embedded systems to achieve that desired state and was able to provide a customised motherboard based around a low-cost ARM System on Module that takes care of the high-level communications coupled with a microcontroller which manages the charging circuitry.

For the superior viewing experience that was required by our customer in the EVC industry, we suggested a high bright TFT display with Capacitive Touch.

The main environmental concern was reliability of the touchscreen in the rain. By conducting extensive testing, we were able to fine tune the IC firmware to ensure raindrops were seen as false touches, and human touches (with and without gloves), were correctly reported as real user inputs.

The cover lens was customised and optically bonded, a process which dramatically reduces the internal reflections produced between the coverlens, sensor and display layers by filling the air gaps in between those layers with optically clear adhesives. This not only makes a huge difference to screen readability in brightly lit and outdoor environments, but also greatly improves the mechanical strength of the display.

 Optical Bonding Key Benefits:

  • Improved readability in sunlight
  • Reduces reflections
  • Prevents condensation build-up between layers
  • Up to 4 times higher contrast ratio
  • Improved ruggedness and durability
  • Lower power consumption

We also provided the display with strengthened glass. This can be achieved using different methods to ensure it can perform perfectly within varying environments, from extreme heat to extreme cold and to protect it from those who may aim to damage.

 

Of course, the above solution ticks the box in accordance with performance, however, as a leading OEM, our customer needs and wants to ensure that the product that the person engages with meets their brand values and our extensive coverlens portfolio delivered just that. 

Options available to our customers include: 

  • Cut outs and custom shapes
  • Oversized glass
  • Bevelled edges
  • 3D Shaped cover glass
  • Logo, icon printing
  • Hidden Until Lit (HUL) features
  • Spot facing and touch bumps
  • Tinted and mirrored glass

And how they can utilise these stylised solutions to completely customise their EVC to ensure it not only meets their brand values but stand out from others in what will become a crowded market.

The Technical Solution:

  • 7” WVGA TFT module with 24-bit RGB interface – 16M colours
    • Customised rear bezel to support specially adapted metal mounting plate 
    • Backlight brightness enhancement – 850nits 
    • Capable of industrial temperature operation
  • Customised capacitive touch panel
    • Single finger input and gesture support 
    • Supports water rejection 
    • EMC: Level 3,conducted susceptibility (10Vrms) immunity 
  • Customised 4mm cover lens 
    • Chemically strengthened glass with grinded edges 
    • Double Anti-Reflection coated
    • Anti-Smudge water repellent coated
    • UV resistant black ink printed frame 
    • Pre-fitted gasket on front glass
  • Double optical bonding using optically clear adhesive 
    • Cover Lens/OCA/Touch Sensor/OCA/TFT module 
    • UV resistant filter
  • Embedded solution
    • High performance, fanless embedded system to accommodate future software upgrades and ensure ultimate UI performance
    • Customer specified connectors and mechanical layout for simple final assembly
    • Additional application and system required power circuitry onboard
    • Industrial operating temperature and a minimum 10-year production lifetime

 

About Anders 

Anders Electronics is a display and embedded display design specialist, dedicated to making electronic touchscreen technology safer, simpler, and more enjoyable to use.

 Over 30 years ago, Anders started designing, developing, and delivering customised display solutions, for the non-consumer industry, and haven’t stopped innovating since! Anders features a history of reliability and innovation and lives to solve display engineering challenges.

 Anders harnesses their expertise in display, embedded computing, and touch control technology to help differentiate their customer’s products through exceptional design and engineering.