We Start with People… TEAL News - MTE Corporation team is Larry Sutton. Larry came to TEAL in December of 2006 and brings a wealth of knowledge in Quality Management Systems from

DRA UpdateWhat is the DRA and what does it mean to TEAL and our Customers...The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) was enacted by Congress to limit payments for reimbursements for certain medical imaging procedures, starting this past January. The reason for this new law was to help reduce the Federal Budget Deficit by cutting Federal spending in a variety of areas. One of the areas most impacted is reimbursement payments for medical imaging procedures. The impact of this new law is significant for all of us, not just TEAL or our medical imaging customers.

The result of the DRA is that reimbursement payments for certain medical imaging procedures performed in the office setting (which is becoming more and more common today) will be reduced to the point that the reimbursement will fall below the actual cost of the procedure in many cases.

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We Start with People…Larry Sutton joins the TEAL team as our Quality Manager.One of the newest members of the TEAL team is Larry Sutton. Larry came to TEAL in December of 2006 and brings a wealth of knowledge in Quality Management Systems from

various industries, including electronics and data storage in the US and Asia.

Larry’s experience includes world class manufacturing using tools such as Six Sigma, TQM, SPC, and GD&T Tolerancing, all related to ISO 9000 processes. His experience will be very helpful to TEAL and our customers as we further expand our manufacturing presence into Mexico and China (see related articles in this issue)

Welcome Larry!

Volume 11, Number 2 • TEAL Electronics Corporation • Spring 2007

© 2007 TEAL • For more information: www.teal.com • contact Kevin Harris 800.888.8325, [email protected]

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By the way, wouldn’t you rather be here?

TEAL Opens TPE Tecate Facility In 2006, TEAL opened our own Maquiladora in nearby Tecate, Mexico...In early 2006, TEAL began operating our new TEAL Power Electronics (known as TPE Tecate) facility in Tecate, Mexico. The 25,000 square foot facility is located in a relatively new industrial park in Tecate, just about a 1 hour drive from TEAL’s headquarters in San Diego.

TEAL has years of manufacturing experience in Mexico with specific products lines. We have previously used other Maquiladora facilities, primarily one operated by TEAL’s sister company, Condor, now known as SL Power Electronics.


TEALwatch® UpdateAutomated email notification among the features included in the newest TEALwatch® Power Monitor firmware update, Release 3.0...TEAL is releasing a firmware upgrade for the TEALwatch® Internet based remote power monitor. Release 3.0 includes several new features and improvements. The most important new feature is the addition of an optional active email notification that a power quality event occurred.

The basic upgrade to Firmware Release 3.0 is free and can be installed in any TEALwatch®. You simply upgrade the firmware through the TEALwatch® website that is the main interface. The optional email notification can be activated once the firmware upgrade is complete.

Other new features include an improved Status Page layout, easier access to the Real Time Clock for viewing and synchronizing, a manual “Trigger’ button


Changes at SL Industries and TEAL ElectronicsTEAL’s parent company has been pretty active over the past year...2006 was a busy year for SL Industries, TEAL’s parent company. The SL Power Electronics Group saw the addition of Ault Incorporated in January of 2006, and more recently, MTE Corporation in November of 2006. Both additions will benefit TEAL and our customers in several ways.

TEAL will be working closely with the Ault facility in China to ramp up production of several product lines specifically for the Asian market beginning in 2007. MTE & TEAL will be aligned very closely to serve the high power market segments of the SL Power Electronics Group.


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MTE Corporation is an international supplier of power quality products de-signed to improve the reliability of power electronic systems and adjustable frequen-cy drives. MTE manufactures line/load reactors, Matrix™ Harmonic Filters, EMI/

RFI filters, DC link chokes, transform-ers, and other products that provide power quality solutions in a broad range of appli-cations. With a global distribution system consisting of over 240 stocking distributors located in North America, Latin America, Asia, Australia, and Europe, MTE is able to provide local support for your power quality needs.

James C. Taylor, SL Industries’ Chief Executive Officer, stated “We are very ex-cited about this acquisition and believe it will significantly broaden the product port-folio of the SL Power Electronics Group in the high power market.”

For more information about TEAL Electronics and its products, please visit our web site at www.teal.com or contact Kevin Harris at 800.888.8325 or [email protected].

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This reduction of reimbursement means that it will be more difficult and more expensive to receive some of the modern diagnotic examinations that are used more and more today.

Many in the in-dustry believe that the DRA unfairly targets the medical imaging community, which uses modern technology to help diagnose and fight disease, improving the health for all and reducing the long-term healthcare costs for all. Many of the diag-nostic imaging procedures help diagnose problems at earlier stages of development, making long term treatment and care easier and more affordable. Limiting the reim-bursements for diagnostics to save money today may actually end up costing us all much more in the long run.

For additional information (including information on urging your congressperson to delay further cuts), please visit http://www.imagingaccess.org/ for the latest up-date on DRA issues.


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to capture the waveform data at any time, field adjustable gain calibration settings, improved Trend Logging, and improved automated Power Up after Power Loss

The active email notification is a feature that was developed in response to custom-er requests, and can really save you time and money on service costs and customer satisfaction. There is a one-time activation fee for the email feature, and a free demo is available. Simply contact your TEAL

account manager for details.

What is the TEALwatch®?With the unprecendented ease of

remotely collecting data from the inter-net-based TEALwatch®, you can easily capture and analyze waveform data. The TEALwatch® user interface is a website that you can view with your standard web

browser soft-ware, no special software need-ed. Summary status of each captured event

is shown, as well as the system status. You can easily download the waveform data, and use a spreadsheet program to open it and view it graphically.

Remote power monitoring with the TEALwatch® power monitor enables you to easily capture waveform data for various power quality issues such as sags, swells, transients, phase loss, power loss, and

other typical power related issues.To make viewing the waveforms even

easier, TEAL provides a macro-based Ex-cel™ spreadsheet, the TEALwatch® View-er, that allows you to easily import and view the waveforms for further analysis. The TEALwatch® Viewer is available free of charge at www.tealwatch.com/manuals/

...Limiting the reimbursements for diagnostics to save money today may actually end up costing us all much more in the long run......TEAL will be working closely with

the Ault facility in China to ramp up production of several product lines specifically for the Asian market, beginning in 2007...

Impact of the MTE Line/Load Reactor on a common power quality issue, the AC Voltage Spike. Image Courtesy of MTE Corporation..

The TEALwatch® Power Monitor main webpage interface gets a facelift in the new-est firmware release. Active e-mail notifica-

tion is one of the new features.


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Having our own Maquiladora in a near-by city enables TEAL to closely manage all of our operations from start to finish. If support from headquarters is needed, TEAL can respond to Tecate by having people on site very quickly.

The TPE Tecate facility is now ISO 9001:2000 certified. It was a part of TEAL’s most recent ISO 9001:2000 audit in February 2007, and both our San Diego and Tecate facilities passed the audit with-out a non-conformance.

Manufacturing at TPE Tecate presently includes most Transformers and Trans-former sub-assemblies, most wire harness assemblies, and several specific product lines that meet certain volume and cus-tomer requirements.

TEAL presently manufacturers the units and sub-assemblies at TPE Tecate, which are then shipped back to TEAL San Diego for final assembly and final test prior to

delivery to our customers.TPE Tecate uses the same computer

network and online documentation system as TEAL San Diego. In fact, thanks to modern high-speed communications, we actually share the same network. If an online document is updated by TEAL’s

Engineering group, the production groups in San Diego and TPE Tecate would both see the update immediately.

TPE Tecate is just another example of how TEAL continues to strive to be a world class partner for our customers!


viewer.htm.New TEALwatch® Features

The Trigger button is a software trig-ger that can be activated by the push of a software button on the TEAL website URL. This feature enables you to capture the waveforms at any time rather than only when a predetermined trigger threshold is exceeded. It is an excellent tool for setting your baselines if you are so inclined.

Also included in Release 3.0 is the abil-ity to view and set the Real Time Clock in more practical places within the TEAL-watch website interface. The RTC can now be viewed from the main status page so that you can confirm the clock settings at a glance.

Another new feature is the ability to change the gain calibration of the monitor in the field. If you wish to calibrate the voltage readings, it can now be accom-plished in a relatively easy to use interface (that is password protected) that is an inte-gral part of the TEALwatch®.

The main STATUS page received a facelift to display the voltage and phase angle data in a cleaner fashion (as well as adding the RTC display as mentioned above).

The automated restart feature was up-graded and improved after certain Power Loss events. The TEALwatch© gets it’s power from the same lines that it is moni-toring and if voltage drops below the Pow-er Loss event threshold, the TEALwatch© needs to capture the “Power Loss” event and shut down in an orderly fashion. Re-lease 3.0 adds a watchdog circuit that will restart the unit after a partial power outage after it has deemed the sys-tem stable (typically 1 -2 minutes), and allow the TEALwatch© to re-tain Events stored in memory.

TEAL will begin notifiying our customers that Firmware Release 3.0 is available in Q2 of 2007!


...The active email notification is a fea-ture that was developed in response to customer requests, and can really save the you time and money on service costs and customer satisfaction...

TPE Tecate is presently manufacturing many of TEAL’s sub-assemblies for a variety of products.!

One example of a TEAL product currently be-ing manufactured at our TPE Tecate facility.

Robots Being Used In Surgery Is No Longer Science Fiction!Although it sounds like Science Fiction, it is happening today, specifically in the treatment of tumors...

TEAL powers many new technologies that provide advanced medical diagnos-tics and treatment, semiconductor manu-facturing, and automated test equipment for military and aerospace applications. Each edition of Powerlines will feature an ap-plication that TEAL powers and how we help that applica-tion achieve peak performance. This edition will focus on the Accuray CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System.

The CyberKnife® is a ra-diosurgery system designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body with very high (sub-millimeter) precision. The CyberKnife® integrates com-puter controlled robotics and image guidance technology to detect, track, and correct for both patient and tumor movement throughout the treatment pro-cess, enabling a very precise treatment dose delivered in a minimally invasive procedure.

noise filtering, transient suppression, power controls and monitoring (using the TEALwatch® power monitor), and single

point grounding engineered specifically to provide optimal performance of this advanced technology.

TEAL Electronics -We Power Technology™

Submit Your ApplicationSubmit a We Power… applica-tion to TEAL and receive a com-plimentary copy of our “Power Quality Handbook”, a compre-hensive publication that details common power quality problems and recommended solutions. If we select your application for

inclusion in POWERLINES, we’ll also send you a complimentary TEAL logo shirt.

Let us know how TEAL helps Power Your Technology.

Submit your application to Kevin Har-ris @ [email protected].

tioned in almost any orientation, provid-ing maximum treatment delivery options compared to other radiosurgery treatment systems.

TEAL powers the CyberKnife® with a combination of required voltages,

The CyberKnife® can deliver multiple beams of radiation at the tumor from many angles using the robotic delivery arm. With the sophisticated computer controls and image guidance technology, the CyberKnife® is able to target and treat tumors more precisely, minimizing damage to surrounding tissue as well as the number of treatments that might be needed.

One advantage of the CyberKnife® is that the robotic manipulator can be posi-


We Power...

...The CyberKnife® integrates computer controlled robotics and image guidance technology to detect, track, and correct for tumor and patient movement throughout the treatment process...

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Accuray CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System.Image used with permission from Accuray Incorporated.

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