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Raymarine Marine Electronics

Raymarine Marine Electronics is a science 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 Raymarine Marine Electronics rather than just read about it. In short: Raymarine is a manufacturer and major supplier of electronic equipment for marine use. The company targets both recreational and light commercial markets with their products, which include: GPS Chartplotters VHF Radios Digital Fishfinders / Sonar Radar Self-steering gear (Autohelm / Autopilot) Satellite television Software The Raymarine brand has been on the market for over 80 years.

Key takeaways

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Connect Raymarine Marine Electronics to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Raymarine Marine Electronics from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Raymarine is a manufacturer and major supplier of electronic equipment for marine use. The company targets both recreational and light commercial markets with their products, which include:

GPS Chartplotters VHF Radios Digital Fishfinders / Sonar Radar Self-steering gear (Autohelm / Autopilot) Satellite television Software The Raymarine brand has been on the market for over 80 years. Within this time, their product range has included visual navigation information equipment. Their products work with performance sensors that operate along with intelligence operating systems. Raymarine has a global service network that operates in over 80 countries all over the world. Until 2005, the company manufactured the majority of its products, but then started outsourcing the production process. A year later the company declared to have completed this reorganization. The company focuses on development, marketing, sales and service. Raymarine has been taking charge of the distribution of its products for a number of years. This is done, among other ways, by purchasing national distributors (such as Eissing in Germany and SD Marine in France) or opening their own branches, so-called subsidiaries. On 1 July 2011, Raymarine Nederland's own branch (in Velp) was opened, after the then importer, Holland Nautic Apeldoorn, had indicated that it wanted to stop distributing the brand.

History The company began as a division of the American company Raytheon, a manufacturer of defense systems, when it launched its first echo depth sounder in 1923. In 1958, Raytheon was able to increase its product offering and market share through the takeover of Apelco. In 1974, Derek Fawcett, a British-born inventor and long-time sailor, founded Nautech. In the beginning, the company had only one product: automatic steering systems for which it used the brand name Autohelm. Due to the great success of these systems, the company was able to offer an ever-wider range of systems. In 1989, Fawcett came up with the SeaTalk network, a digital-communications protocol that allowed Autohelm units to "talk" with other onboard instrumentation via a single-cable connection (a predecessor to contemporary NMEA 0183 and NMEA 2000 protocols). In 1990 Raytheon purchased Nautech, mainly so the American-based firm could access Nautech's extensive European distribution and sell its radars on the continent. Due to reorganizations in 1993 and 1998, the current Raymarine – at the time still under the name of the parent company – was created. In January 2001, Raymarine was formed when the division was acquired in a management buy-out backed by Hg. In December 2004 the company was floated on the London Stock Exchange quadrupling Hg's investment. In 2005, the company was involved in Ellen MacArthur's solo world circumnavigation. The 2008 financial crisis hit Raymarine, and the recreational boating industry in general, hard. In May 2010 with Raymarine's lenders forcing the company into administration (the British version of business bankruptcy) the company was acquired by FLIR Systems.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Raymarine Marine Electronics

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Raymarine Marine Electronics claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, 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 Raymarine Marine Electronics 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 Raymarine Marine Electronics 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 Raymarine Marine Electronics

In research: Raymarine Marine Electronics appears in science 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 Raymarine Marine Electronics 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: Raymarine Marine Electronics is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Companies based in Hampshire, Marine electronics, Navigation system companies, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Raymarine Marine Electronics 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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How to study Raymarine Marine Electronics in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
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Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Raymarine Marine Electronics in simple terms?

Raymarine is a manufacturer and major supplier of electronic equipment for marine use. The company targets both recreational and light commercial markets with their products, which include: GPS Chartplotters VHF Radios Digital Fishfinders / Sonar Radar Self-steering gear (Autohelm / Autopilot) Sate…

Why does Raymarine Marine Electronics matter?

Because it connects several science 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 Raymarine Marine Electronics?

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.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Raymarine Marine Electronics.