Improving The Customer Experience While Simplifying Manufacturing

As electronic devices move from the office to the living room controlling the sound produced by fans, hard drives and other components has become an important factor in consumer perceptions of product quality and value. MSC Quiet Steel^® is a proven alternative to add-on sound deadening materials that can add both manufacturing and assembly cost and the potential for contamination in sensitive electronic environments.

Typical Quiet Steel^® consumer electronic applications include:

For example, in head-to-head testing, Quiet Steel^® hard drive covers provide a 9 dBa improvement over solid covers and a 2 to 3 dBa improvement over add-on treatments. Moreover, they eliminate 16 manufacturing steps required to apply the add-on treatment generating additional cost savings.

MSC solutions also can address thermal issues by eliminating the need for foam noise absorbers and creating integral heat sinks by replacing steel with laminated structures including highly-conductive aluminum, copper or brass. With more than 30 different Quiet Steel^® core systems available, MSC can engineer an optimal noise and vibration solution for virtually any consumer electronic application.

MSC provides a comprehensive CAD/CAE enhanced design, application engineering, prototyping, and component production capability to support customers in the consumer electronics market. Finally, MSC Quiet Steel^® can be supplied in a broad range of colors and finishes, including our unique range of electrogalvanized and ElectroBrite^® faux-stainless materials.