Premium interface solutions for appliances and white goods.
Appliance controls take thousands of hits per year from wet hands, cleaning products, and steam. They need to look premium on day one and still work correctly after years of daily use - without a gasket to replace or a button to jam.
What appliance controls face every day.
Appliance controls take daily punishment from heat, steam, condensation, cooking splatter, and cleaning agents. In a kitchen, a control panel may be wiped down multiple times per day with everything from mild soap to aggressive degreasers. Steam from boiling water, open ovens, and dishwasher cycles creates persistent humidity directly at the control surface. In laundry applications, vibration from spin cycles and detergent residue add mechanical and chemical stress. Users interact with wet hands, greasy hands, and cleaning-product-covered hands. The interface must look premium on day one and maintain both function and appearance after years of this daily cycle.
Priorities for appliance interfaces.
Why solid-state piezo for appliances and white goods.
Beyond buttons. The surface becomes intelligent.
Piezo sensing doesn't just detect a press. The signal processing platform interprets how a surface is touched, knocked, or interacted with. This capability is already proven in commercial appliances.
Piezo technology in premium appliances.
From technology demonstrations to real-world products, piezo sensing enables interface designs that conventional technologies cannot deliver.
Flexible cooperation, from components to complete solutions.
RNC provides PiezoTouch at the level that fits your production model. From ready-to-assemble components for in-house integration to complete module supply, with design assistance at every stage.
RNC piezo panels are integrated into premium kitchen and laundry appliance fascias for European OEMs, providing unified stainless steel control surfaces with advanced interaction features including knock-to-activate and pattern recognition, maintaining appearance and function after years of daily steam exposure and chemical cleaning.