On discovery tour: How safe, durable and quiet power supplies are created | Retro

1 - Intro, Start in Asia 2 - MTBF 3 - Environment 4 - HALT and Life Span 5 - Airflow and Pressure 6 - ESD, EFT 7 - EMI, EMC 8 - Noise 9 - Safety Lab 10 - From Prototype to Golden Sample 11 - Conclussion

Invisible and yet omnipresent

Company visits and tours are not only interesting, but also have a very special charm that is hard to resist – even if it was not a vacation, but “only” a work visit. This also includes the social environment and the individual company philosophies for dealing with employees. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those involved for allowing us to immerse ourselves in the normal working and testing routine for a few days, without any events or closed-off areas.

A hearty lunch package should not be missing, because surprisingly there were also breaks. Fast food in Taiwanese:

If you generally think an Asian business is like any other, you are sorely mistaken. Today’s power supply suppliers looking for a large contract manufacturer will always be faced with the dilemma of finding someone who can produce cost-effectively, to a high technical standard and with the necessary background, such as a good test laboratory, while not losing sight of the social component. In the end, however, an Asian manufacturer will only (be able to) meet the special requirements and demands of the customer 100 percent if the customer’s engineers are constantly on site and actively participate in the development process or even lead and determine it.

Just shopping around and relabeling definitely goes wrong; this is where presence really matters. Unfortunately, only very few providers make this effort, which is actually incomprehensible. At FSP, this also includes the roof terrace for the employees of the test laboratories (and use as a smoking island)

Outlook for what follows

After we have seen what stations a product like the new be quiet! Straight Power E10 has to go through before it can be sent into mass production and then let loose on the customer, in the next part we want to show for the first time how such a power supply is then also assembled, tested and packaged step by step. So the journey is far from over, but then leads us from Taiwan back to the mainland…