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Industrial Equipment & Machinery

Reliable interface solutions for industrial equipment and machinery.

In industrial environments, interface failure means downtime. A switch that sticks, a keypad that lets in coolant, or a button that fails after 50,000 actuations creates maintenance costs and line stoppages that dwarf the original component cost.

Key challenge
Sealed, glove-compatible controls with long service life in harsh environments
Relevant products
Switches - Panels - Keypads - Custom interface solutions
Key technology
Piezo Platform
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The environment

What industrial control interfaces face.

Factory floors, machine enclosures, and mobile equipment. Oil, coolant, solvents, metal dust, cleaning chemicals, and continuous vibration. Thousands of presses per shift by operators in heavy work gloves.

Food and pharmaceutical manufacturing adds regular washdown with aggressive agents. EMI from motors and variable frequency drives is constant. When an interface fails, the cost is not the replacement part. It is the production line stoppage and the maintenance scramble that follows.

What matters most

Priorities in industrial applications.

Sealed operation - dust, oil, coolant, and washdown exposure
Reliable actuation with gloves - heavy work gloves, chemical gloves
Long service life - no mechanical wear in high-cycle applications
Resistance to vibration and mechanical shock
Practical integration into existing machine housings
Consistent signal output under industrial electrical noise
Why solid-state

Why solid-state piezo for industrial equipment.

Chemical and fluid resistance
Coolant, oil, solvents, and cleaning agents. A potted metal panel has no ingress pathway, eliminating the leading failure mode in factory floor keypads.
EMC/ESD robustness
The metal housing acts as a Faraday cage. Full EMC and ESD protection is inherent to the construction. Critical near motors, drives, and high-frequency switching.
50 million cycles
Pressed hundreds of times per shift, works identically on activation 1 and activation 10,000,000. No contact degradation, no dome fatigue.
Operates with any PPE
Work gloves, chemical gloves, rubber gloves, tools. Force-based activation has no dependency on glove material or thickness.
Deployed

RNC piezo keypads are used in industrial washdown environments including food processing and pharmaceutical manufacturing, where IP69K-rated panels withstand daily high-pressure cleaning while maintaining consistent actuation across millions of cycles without contact degradation or production interruptions.

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