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===== Expertise, innovation, induction ===== | ===== Expertise, innovation, induction ===== | ||
When BSH took over [[ | When BSH took over [[Special:MyLanguage/Balay_S.A.|the Spanish company Balay]] in 1989, it acquired a specialist in the area of induction. Balay had already had an induction department at its site in Montañana for a number of years and had presented the first prototypes at the international trade fair in Cologne some two years prior to the takeover. Balay became the location for the Competence Center for Induction Development at BSH. At the same time, a contractually regulated collaboration with the electrical engineering and communication departments at the University of Zaragoza allowed enormous innovation potential to be tapped. | ||
The enhanced development of the technology often led along unexpected paths. The license for manufacturing especially high-performance semi-conductors, or Mosfets as they are called, had to be purchased, for example, from the U.S. military. Engineer José Ramón Garcia recalled: "Without that license we would almost certainly not be the leading provider that we are today (....) on the global market."<ref>BSH Corporate Archives, A05-0034, inform 01/2011 Jg. 34, page 20.</ref> | The enhanced development of the technology often led along unexpected paths. The license for manufacturing especially high-performance semi-conductors, or Mosfets as they are called, had to be purchased, for example, from the U.S. military. Engineer José Ramón Garcia recalled: "Without that license we would almost certainly not be the leading provider that we are today (....) on the global market."<ref>BSH Corporate Archives, A05-0034, inform 01/2011 Jg. 34, page 20.</ref> |