Nexus GB set to help engineers at the Engineering Design Show

NEXUS USB devices

Nexus GB will be exhibiting its range of non volatile keys, tokens and receptacles at the Engineering Design Show, which takes place at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry on October 10-11, 2012. Nexus, who can be found on stand E30, will be using a custom designed robot application to illustrate the potential of its products to design engineers.

Nexus’ range of portable memory solutions are designed to work in environments where heat, dust, moisture or accidental damage would cause conventional memory cards and USB devices to fail. They are used in applications ranging from data logging, cashless vending, security, access control and use-limiting in industries including medical, food and pharmaceuticals.

The custom robot application on the stand will be demonstrating the simple design functionality of the token and receptacle system and making it easier for designers to immediately see the purpose of the technology. “We often find that once a designer sees how our tokens work, they are convinced of their benefits,” explained Victoria James, marketing and PR director at Nexus GB. “There is always a Eureka moment, during which they suddenly realise the system’s potential in their own applications.”

“Selling specialist industrial memory to OEMs is a continual process of raising awareness,” continued James. “Our competition really comes from other, less appropriate for industry, forms of memory; like SDHC cards and USB sticks. Our job is to remind industry that these forms of memory are less rugged, become obsolete more quickly and are highly susceptible to viruses and malware. In contrast the products we sell are specifically built for design engineers to build into original equipment.”

Amongst the systems on display will be the GammaSafe™ memory token for the medical device manufacturing sector. The token is a non-volatile, reprogrammable, portable memory device that survives gamma sterilisation with no loss of data.  It also allows medical device manufacturers to easily add anti-counterfeit and limit-use capabilities to disposable attachments that are sterilised using gamma radiation.

Also on show will be the high capacity RUGGEDrive™ tokens and receptacles, which allow system designers to incorporate large memory devices into their designs, without the shortcomings that consumer-focused solutions bring. The memory tokens are easily integrated into embedded controllers, single board computers and industrial PC designs.