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Industrial Electronic Engineers

Industrial Electronic Engineers is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Industrial Electronic Engineers rather than just read about it. In short: Industrial Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEE; sometimes spelled Industrial Electronics Engineers) is an American electronics company based in Van Nuys, California.

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Reference excerpt

Industrial Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEE; sometimes spelled Industrial Electronics Engineers) is an American electronics company based in Van Nuys, California. It was founded by Donald Gumpertz in 1946. The company is best known for its electronic displays, becoming a pioneer in the field under Gumpertz's leadership.

History

Early history Industrial Electronic Engineers was founded in 1946 by Donald Gumpertz (June 22, 1918, in Oxnard, California – April 28, 2012, in Toluca Lake, California). Gumpertz had been interested in electronics from a young age, building a ham radio transceiver at the age of 14 and obtaining an unrestricted commercial operator's licence from the Federal Radio Commission (the predecessor to the FCC) at 15 in the early 1930s. Before founding IEE, Gumpertz worked as an engineer at and announcer for Santa Barbara's KDB and Berkeley's KRE. One of IEE's first products to market was an electronic numeric display unit that worked from a rear-projection principle, in which several miniature lightbulbs arranged in a grid pattern shine one at a time through a black-and-white film etched with digits, along with two sets of condenser lenses for evening the lighting—both in a corresponding arrangement to the bulbs. The projected digit is then sent through a projection lens that centers each projected digit onto a frosted glass screen facing the viewer. This display unit was developed in the 1950s. One of the first bulk purchasers was Cohu, a manufacturer of test equipment who used it in their digital voltmeters in 1958.

Automatic warehouse system In the mid-1950s Gumpertz and his company developed the system for an automated pharmacy warehouse for the Brunswig Drug Company of Los Angeles—the first of its kind. The system comprised a number of chutes loaded with the Brunswig's items, each of which were packaged in a standardized shape—dubbed "cartridges"—which were loaded manually by the warehouse workers. Retailers carrying Brunswig's items, which in 1957 was numbered to be roughly 2,000, had a dedicated area for their products, in which sample units of these products were on display. Customers were given a blank card on entering the area, which they would insert into printers housed underneath the products on display, each insertion leading to one virtual "selection" of a product. More than one selection of a product required multiple insertions; customers could cancel any selection by crossing out the item on the card with a pencil. When a purchase was completed, the card was given to a cashier, who fed it into an electronic reader connected via a modem to Brunswig's central warehouse. A mainframe in the warehouse processed the order data, sorting the transactions by item, updating the records of available stock, and printing advice notes and warnings of low stock to the warehouse managers, if necessary. After the transactions were sorted, the mainframe controlled solenoid gates at the end of each chute, opening the appropriate gate for each item ordered. Items were dropped from each gate once per second; the mainframe could open the gates for up to ten unique items per second, or 100 varying items every 15 seconds in a best-case scenario. The items were dropped onto conveyor belts in front of the chutes, all of which converged into a larger conveyor belt at appropriate intervals to separate each customer's order on the belt. This belt terminated into a box of fixed size which contained the customer's selection of Brunswig's products. The case was then dispatched to the customer at the store by truck. IEE finished developing the system for Brunswig in 1957. It proved successful at first; only one malfunction was reported in the first 18 months, leading to downtime of only 10 minutes. Solartron–John Brown Automation Ltd. of the United Kingdom, who intended to market the system to supermarkets, acquired the rights to manufacture and market the machine outside the United States. However, Brunswig encountered increasing road traffic in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, as a result of customers moving to the outskirts of the city and shopping at more remote stores. The time from order to delivery slowed as result of the road traffic, so Brunswig raised non-automated warehouses closer to the outskirts where their customers were starting to shop. This decentralization reduced the throughput of the central automated warehouse to the point it became a white elephant for Brunswig and had to be shut down in 1963.

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Illustrations

Industrial Electronic Engineers: An animation of a single-digit nimo tube display the numbers 0–9 — An animation of a single-digit nimo tube display the numbers 0–9

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Industrial Electronic Engineers

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Industrial Electronic Engineers claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Industrial Electronic Engineers before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Industrial Electronic Engineers ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Industrial Electronic Engineers

In research: Industrial Electronic Engineers appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Industrial Electronic Engineers in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Industrial Electronic Engineers is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1946 establishments in California, Defense companies of the United States, Display technology companies, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Industrial Electronic Engineers outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Industrial Electronic Engineers in simple terms?

Industrial Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEE; sometimes spelled Industrial Electronics Engineers) is an American electronics company based in Van Nuys, California.

Why does Industrial Electronic Engineers matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Industrial Electronic Engineers?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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