[SOLVED] Industrial Electronics and Home Appliances

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What is the differences between industrial Electronics and Home appliances? Lets discuss about it. Why any circuit used in industry become more important in the designing field?
 

Industrial gear is usually a smaller market making NRE cost a far bigger deal, and is one that is far more reliability sensitive.

In the consumer space unit cost is (usually) a major driver, where it is far less of an issue in industrial gear, so you typically find that the tradeoff between say firmware development time and processor power plays out very differently between the two markets.

Consumer products life cycles are usually measured in terms of a few years at best, industrial gear you may be targetting 20+ years.

Regards, Dan.
 

HAVING SAID THAT, I USED TO WORK IN AN ELECTRIC DRIVES CO SUPPLYING DRIVES (sorry about caps) to newspaper makers....our drives were dreadful cheap, and used to fail regularly, we just used to keep replacing them at the customer premises and they were fine with that. (on a typical prod line, it wasn't unusual to get one drive failure per month.
 

What I found is that, a simple circuit become bulky in industrial electronics. lots of protection is always included with each of the circuits. But in consumer electronics circuit become not so much protective. Is this for life time for that circuit/system?
 

Design of protection means against overvoltage/overcurrent is probably done more thoroughly in industrial design. Also larger margins are applied for component rating.

Home appliance designs are much more cost sensitive, thus every for circuit part it will be checked at least twice if it can be omitted or made with cheaper components. That's the point where I see a larger effort in home electronics design.
 
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