TIAX helps appliance companies leverage technology to gain competitive advantage. Our understanding of key markets, drivers and trends comes from working with industry and key government agencies for decades. Our development environment encompasses key areas of the appliance industry.
- Cooking: Our expertise in the fundamentals of cooking—food science, heat and mass transfer and sensory science—provides an engine for innovation in new food preparation products.
- Cooling & Refrigeration: Our refrigeration experience includes residential, commercial, industrial, and military applications.
- Wet Cleaning: Our work with dishwashers, clothes washers and dryers ranges from developing test procedures to creating new products that improve the consumer-driven performance characteristics of speed, energy efficiency, and fabric care.
- Sensors & Controls: TIAX has led efforts to develop new sensors and algorithms for improving the energy efficiency of appliances and building technologies. Examples of such sensors and algorithms include new methods for detecting the occupancy level in buildings and monitoring the remaining moisture content in clothes dryers.