GNB Bugle March

March 2013 GNB Bugle Vacuum Excellence Defined TV Technology And What it Means to the Vacuum Industry By: Ken Harrison, President & CEO I recently upgraded to a new laptop and hit the road to make a sales call. I had not paid much attention to the computer port, and when I tried to plug the custom-er s projector into my computer, I found that I only had an HDMI port and no VGA connection. At my next sales call, howev-er, the conference room had a new flat screen monitor and readily accepted the HDMI plug. Flat screens are normally made with a vacuum coating process, but for the most part the capital equipment and manufacturing capacity are already in place and the industry is poised for the next big technology change. Have you noticed that the television mar-ket seems to be in a bit of a quandary? Looking back, the first television was pa-tented by Paul Nipkow in 1884. In 1925, John Logie Baird was able to demonstrate the first live transmission of moving imag-es.

One of the most important parts of designing a vacuum sys-tem is the seal. Without the appropriate seal, you don't really have a vacuum system, just an expensive structure

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