Developing a product design can be a complicated effort, as the number of available solutions can be staggering. To address this issue in the interconnect space, AVX launched a 3D interactive interconnect application. The software provides users with multiple interactive means to access a comprehensive suite of product information on the company's portfolio of board-to-board, wire-to-board, and wire-to-wire connectors. The software also includes application examples with interactive, animated, and annotated digital, 3-D product renderings. Available on the AVX website, the 3D interactive interconnect application also provides relevant product pages, datasheets, and catalogs.
The interface is presented as a digitally rendered hospital complex that users can rotate, resize, and tilt. The application offers three primary navigation tools: a color-coded market segment menu, labeled snapshots of several different digital interiors within the hospital, and an expandable menu organized by connection style. Each of the seven market segment buttons in the color-coded navigation menu (Lighting, Industrial Handheld Devices, Smart Grid, Commercial Building, Transportation, Medical, and Industrial Machines and Controls) corresponds to a colored dot on the digitally rendered hospital, and hovering over a selection (e.g., Industrial Handheld Devices) causes application examples (e.g., terminals, scanners, computers, data recorders, and barcode readers) to pop up onscreen.
The application contains a comprehensive list of AVX Interconnect products suitable for applications within the selected market segment, as well as direct links to the product pages and available annotated 3-D product animations, with a sorting tool to allow users to narrow the list with up to five defining characteristics: connection style (i.e., board-to-board, wire-to-board, or wire-to-wire), connection technology (e.g., card edge, compression, or IDC), configuration type (e.g., vertical, horizontal, junction box, or through-wire), connection format (i.e., complete connector or STRIPT contact), and current rating (e.g., up to 3A, 6A, 10A, or 20A).
Six labeled interior snapshots—Intensive Care Unit, Operation Room, Computed Tomography, Reception, Hospital Room, and Server Room — let users virtually enter and navigate the selected interiors, where the same color-coded market segment dots used on the hospital exterior on specific application examples are presented, which open corresponding pop-up menus for that market segment, providing users with a comprehensive list of potentially suitable AVX Interconnect products, with sorting tools to narrow the selection, and direct links to product pages and 3-D product animations. An expandable menu organized by connection style has direct links to interactive, animated, and annotated digital, 3-D product renderings that can be viewed as videos or step-by-step scene progressions.
“Our new 3-D interactive interconnect application provides users with unprecedented ease of access to a comprehensive and visually engaging suite of in-depth and interactive product information for a vast selection of our extensive portfolio of expertly engineered, time-tested, and field-proven board-to-board, wire-to-board, and wire-to-wire connectors optimized for use in applications within the medical, transportation, lighting, smart grid, commercial building, and industrial machinery, device, and control markets,” said Ara Zadoorian, product marketing manager at AVX Interconnect. “In addition, by making it quick and easy to find AVX Interconnect products ideally suited for a specific application area, narrow search results using up to five different product parameters, engage with interactive and annotated 3-D digital product renderings, and access relevant product pages, datasheets, and catalogs, our new 3-D interactive interconnect application also acts as an effective tool for virtual trade fairs and exhibitions and other instances in which it’s not possible to meet with customers face-to-face.”
For more information please visit https://www.avx.com/design-tools/connector-models/3d-interconnect-application/
