Technology Leadership
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Technology Leadership

For more than 40 years, Eaton has worked closely with customers to meet their requirements for innovative, end-to-end power protection and management solutions. That’s why thousands of customers around the world put their confidence in Eaton's comprehensive Powerware solutions to protect their mission-critical systems.

Eaton strives for continued success in leveraging technical innovation to develop next-generation products that fulfill specific customer requirements. Two Frost & Sullivan awards have validated this customer-centric approach—the 2003 Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value and Satisfaction and 2004 Frost and Sullivan Award for Product Line Strategy.

Tradition of Technical Innovation

From patenting the first AC inverter in 1962 to submitting eight new patents for the new Powerware 9390 UPS, Eaton has a continuing history of technical innovation. With more than 120 active patents and another 98 patents pending, we maintain a long tradition of using our technical expertise to provide customers with what they need most in a power management solution:

2007 Eaton introduces a quantum leap in large, three-phase UPS technology, the Powerware 9395, which incorporates a modular and upgradeable design with internal redundancy for maximum reliability.
2006 Eaton introduces the high power density and high efficiency Powerware BladeUPS rackmount UPS, a 12 kVA modular UPS featuring N+1 parallel redundant systems up to 60 kVA with modular distribution.
2005 First UPS featuring full power processing to verify internal converter operation and site commissioning tests without external load banks.
2005 First UPS with full power battery discharge independent of attached load for battery integrity testing
2004 Modular transformer-free UPS up to 160 kVA, integrating a unmatched combination of power performance, battery management, scalable architecture, flexibility, and service
2003 First 6 kVA UPS in 3U for high-density rack applications increases power density by 33%.
2003 Second-generation wireless paralleling for high-frequency power inverters
2002 First dual source UPS for rackmount applications
2002 Monitoring deployment for over 225,000 data points with FORESEER proactive enterprise facility monitoring solution
2002 First full 100Mbps switch hub integrated on a network card
2001 UPS with 3 kVA increases power density by 40%
1996 First UPS with wireless paralleling
1993 First UPS to offer load segmentation
1993 First UPS with ABM technology to extend battery life
1989 First high-frequency transformer-free UPS
1987 First UPS with advanced pulse-width modulated (PWM) technology and microprocessor-based diagnostics
1986 First UPS over 100 kVA for computer rooms
1982 First UPS suitable for computer rooms
1982 First UPS suitable specifically designed for offices
1976 First UPS for emergency lighting HID lamps
1972 First fault-tolerant and parallel UPS
1972 First all digitally-controlled UPS
1968 First commercial UPS combining battery chargers and inverters
1962 First AC power inverter
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