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ECD Doubles Manufacturing Footprint to Meet Demand for SmartDRY® Intelligent Dry Storage Systems

Award-winning Dry Storage Cabinets Realize Sustained Year-Over-Year Growth, Production Capacity Expanded to Accommodate Unit Shipment Increases

November 18, 2024 – ECD announced today that it has increased production capacity by 100% to accommodate significant order growth for its SmartDRY® Intelligent Dry Storage portfolio. Over the last four years, the product line has experienced sustained, double-digit year-over-year growth.

Introduced to the market in 2015, SmartDRY quickly became the go-to solution for humidity-controlled storage of moisture-sensitive devices (MSDs) used in electronics assembly. Excessive moisture exposure reduces component floor life and can cause damage during processing if not tightly managed. SmartDRY revolutionized the market with an intuitive platform that delivers J-STD-033 standard-compliant parts access at intervals competitive systems cannot match. The user-friendliness, simple visual status indicators, and effectiveness of SmartDRY earned it several industry awards and propelled it to market-leading status.

ECD Electronics Division Manager Mark Waterman notes the impressive trajectory of SmartDRY, which has enjoyed an excellent reputation in the electronics manufacturing sector and adjacent markets like medical devices and 3D printing. “In its nearly 10-year history, SmartDRY has experienced consistent year-over-year unit shipment growth,” Waterman says. “Based on current volumes and near-term sales projections, investment in dedicated manufacturing space was necessary. The new production area has facilitated improved manufacturing flow and enables us to provide production-critical dry storage technology within relatively short lead times. This expansion will ensure we uphold our customer commitments and continue to proudly make our high-quality systems in the USA.”

The SmartDRY portfolio comprises six models in 10, 30, and 48 cubic-foot capacities. SmartDRY SD-10 is also available in a SmartBAKE™ version to enable component storage and bake-out in a single unit. For more information, visit SmartDRY – ECD.


Except as otherwise noted, all marks used herewith are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ECD and/or its affiliates in the US and elsewhere

About ECD

Founded in 1964, ECD is recognized worldwide for its leadership and expertise in thermal monitoring and analysis technology and, more recently, for its development of intelligent dry storage systems. Based in Milwaukie, Oregon, the company is a pioneer in the design, development, and manufacture of advanced in-transit thermal profiling systems and software used to monitor and analyze process temperatures in various industries including electronics, solar and baking, among others. Well-known for its data-rich software expertise and robust hardware functionality, ECD leads the industry for innovative measurement and safeguarding systems. For more information on ECD and its products, visit www.ecd.com.

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ECD Debuts Market’s First Touchscreen-enabled Thermal Profiler

M.O.L.E. EV6 Heralds the Evolution of Thermal Profiling with Smartphone-like, Handheld Data Access, Sets New Benchmark for Factory Floor Profiling Control

January 23, 2023 – With the IPCAPEX EXPO exhibition as the backdrop, ECD unveils its latest process control innovation: M.O.L.E. EV6. The market’s first traveling thermal profiler with operation via a capacitive touchscreen, M.O.L.E. EV6 offers a radical new design engineered to save time, simplify data viewing and analysis, and improve productivity. APEX visitors to ECD Booth #2425 will be the first to see the new technology in person, and will have the opportunity to pre-order M.O.L.E. EV6 for shipments beginning March 1, 2023.

“Consumers have become accustomed to touchscreen-enabled, intuitive management of most of our electronic devices,” says ECD Electronics Division Manager, Mark Waterman. “It should be no different in the factory, and ECD has been moving toward this model for quite a while. We designed our award-winning SmartDRY™ storage system with an easy-to-use onboard user interface, and have now successfully achieved touch control with M.O.L.E. EV6 –all while maintaining the robustness and deep data collection that M.O.L.E. loyalists have come to demand. This is a true evolution in thermal profiling shop floor productivity.”

With conventional thermal profiler designs, users must program, download data and interpret results via a PC interface. Moreover, control buttons on the profiler can be vague and confusing, leading to errors, erased profiles, and other efficiency-killing
events if operators are poorly-trained. M.O.L.E. EV6 eliminates these concerns, delivering process calculation templates, profile viewing, and pass/fail analysis on the device.

“The immediacy of shop floor data access introduces a major boost for productivity,” notes Waterman. “M.O.L.E. EV6 saves time on the line, reduces required training resources, and eliminates the need for a computer to conduct analysis. What’s more, ECD’s engineers have also made M.O.L.E. EV6 practical and affordable with features like an off-the-shelf lithium-polymer battery, wireless Bluetooth operation, and built-in maintenance reminders.”

As with all ECD innovations, M.O.L.E. EV6 is designed from a user mindset, delivering simplicity, robust performance, affordability for high-yield process control, and easy integration with ECD’s machine quality management RIDER pallets.

To learn more, go to this link and plan to visit ECD booth #2425 at IPC APEX EXPO 2023to see M.O.L.E. EV6 live.


Except as otherwise noted, all marks used herewith are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ECD and/or its affiliates in the US and elsewhere

About ECD

Founded in 1964, ECD is recognized worldwide for its leadership and expertise in thermal monitoring and analysis technology and, more recently, for its development of intelligent dry storage systems. Based in Milwaukie, Oregon, the company is a pioneer in the design, development, and manufacture of advanced in-transit thermal profiling systems and software used to monitor and analyze process temperatures in various industries including electronics, solar and baking, among others. Well-known for its data-rich software expertise and robust hardware functionality, ECD leads the industry for innovative measurement and safeguarding systems. For more information on ECD and its products, visit www.ecd.com.

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Laura Sims
Sims Communications, Inc.
(o) 770-829-4757
(m) 404-661-0348
[email protected]

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