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Advanced Energy’s Global Footprint Helps Ease Customers’ Tariff Concerns
May 02, 2025
Over the past few months, the U.S. Administration announced a range of tariffs on imports into the United States. Presently, it is hard to escape news about tariffs and the impacts of those tariffs on businesses worldwide. While customers have to navigate through uncertainties, AE is well positioned to help minimize tariff exposures.
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Improving Thin Film Quality: Advanced Pyrometry Solutions for Precise Vacuum Chamber Temperature Monitoring
October 27, 2025
By Tim Dubbs
Depositing materials in a vacuum environment reduces contamination and enables materials to travel unimpeded to the substrate. As such, this technique is an important industrial process for creating thin films and coatings across a diverse range of applications including semiconductor manufacturing, optics or glass and beyond.
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Are You Ready for Level VII Efficiency?
September 25, 2025
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Level VII efficiency standards are currently in the final stages before publication and are anticipated to come into force in about two years. The rules will impact several applications, from medical and industrial technologies to IT equipment as well as home appliances, lighting, consumer products and HVAC systems.
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Meeting Military Standards with Commercial Power Technologies
September 15, 2025
By Todd Hendrix
In recent years, there has been an increasing adoption of commercial components and subsystems within defense and aerospace sectors, encompassing land, sea, and air applications. This is as true for power conversion and delivery technologies as it is for semiconductors, passive components and electro-mechanical parts, all of which must meet the standards set by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). These standards are among the world’s most exacting and have been duplicated or referenced by many allied forces.
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Safeguarding Patient Outcomes - The Critical Role of Voltage Regulation in Healthcare and Life Sciences Equipment
August 29, 2024
By Conor Duffy
Whether it’s the precision of surgical lasers, the clarity of images from a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan or the detection of molecules in liquids, advanced medical and life science systems that enable better patient outcomes through healthcare diagnostics and treatment all have one thing in common - the need for stable system voltages. Advanced Energy has been developing customizable and modular power supplies for medical applications for almost 40 years, and is at the forefront of delivering power supply technologies essential to ensuring optimized performance and tightly regulated outputs across the spectrum of healthcare technologies.
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How the Latest Innovations in Switched-Mode Power Conversion Boosts Efficiency, Flexibility and Reliability in Today’s Power Systems
August 27, 2024
By Joe Voyles
Power system designers today face intense pressure to raise conversion efficiency and save energy as they strive to deliver sustainably improved performance. One key to reaching greater efficiency is switched-mode power conversion.
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Powering Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Acute Care Settings
August 08, 2024
Ultrasound, being a non-invasive diagnostic method, is widely utilized in the field of medical imaging. According to research published in the Journal of Radiology Nursing [POCUS used widely in lung ultrasound applications | AuntMinnie] Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is being seen as a “global grassroots movement” and some of the top domains for POCUS are in acute care settings, such as emergency medicine, trauma or critical care. Especially in these care settings, it is even more necessary that these ultrasound units work reliably
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How Digital Transformation Helps Customers Accelerate Design and Time-to-Market
July 18, 2024
Engineers and purchasers face reduce time-to-market pressure by developing products rapidly and with high quality. This pressure drives suppliers to evolve beyond simply providing products and offer world-class multi-channel support. In today's digital world, where the internet makes information readily available, customers expect much of that support to come from digital or online resources.
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AI Trending at AISTech 2024
June 26, 2024
This year, the Association for Iron & Steel Technology® Conference (AISTech) was held in Columbus, Ohio, with an attendance of over 8,000 industry professionals from more than 40 countries including steel producers, suppliers, academia and students. Advanced Energy (AE) attended this year’s event highlighting its expertise in thermal sensing products and participated in an important conversation surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on process control of steel plants. This event was also an opportunity for industry peers to learn from Advanced Energy experts, who demonstrated how to monitor quality standards, increase productivity and lower energy costs.
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Advanced Energy in the Windy City – An Update from SVC TechCon 2024
June 11, 2024
By Kyle Moore
Every year the Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) – a non-profit, international, professional organization primarily devoted to coating and surface finishing using vacuum processes – brings together industry professionals, researchers and academics for SVC TechCon, the world’s largest technical expo for vacuum coating.
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Steel Manufacturing Requires Efficient Electric Arc Furnaces
May 20, 2024
Steel remains incredibly relevant and deeply integrated into the modern world. Steel is used extensively in engineering, construction and other applications vital to modern life. The downside is that traditional methods of manufacturing, based upon fossil fuels such as coal, are damaging to the environment as they produce significant quantities of carbon dioxide (CO2). In fact, according to McKins
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Reliability in Healthcare: The Vital Role of Voltage Regulation
May 16, 2024
By Conor Duffy
In operating rooms, every device’s performance is critical and essential to a patient’s survival. Dialysis centers require precise readings to administer crucial treatment, and in emergency rooms, the reliability of electrical equipment is quite literally a matter of life and death.