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R&D considers our business’s future and solving

the more immediate problems that can really
help our teams in the short term. We have filed
six provisional patents in the past six months,
with two more in the pipeline. In total, Rosendin

holds over 80 provisional or full patents.

- Bill Mazzetti, Senior Vice President “

First up, we’re proud to announce that we’ve struck a the equation. This will yield more consistent data, letting
strategic development deal with a tool manufacturer to Superintendents evaluate our workforces more efficiently.
co-develop tooling and systems for the industry. Like The real “ah-ha moment” was we finally optimized the
our one with ULC Robotics, this relationship allows for cost of materials and the fastest installation time to yield
TION THRIVES
INNOVATION THRIVES market, and guaranteed best pricing. These three factors coordinates assemblies with the estimating databases and
INNOVA
royalties, exclusivity on the tool before it hits the open
the lowest installation cost for that assembly. The KoP also
are the foundation for all of our development agreements
iProcurement and has an easy-on-the-user UI for Field
ordering. The field order app allows you to select material
and offer protection and sustaining revenue to Rosendin
by area and type of system. The in-wall catalog is being
outside of labor, safety, and quality improvements. Most
process, tool, equipment, and installation improvement that
INSIDE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT importantly, we have partners and vehicles to realize the tested manually on a couple of our projects right now.
The last significant invention we’ve been working on is the
just makes your life easier.
BESSESS (we are working on a catchier name). This was
Now, more on the big news. Our solar panel placing and inspired by a comment from Greenpeace in a planning
By: Bill Mazzetti, Senior Vice President, R&D/Innovation handling robot team has passed its Phase 1 proof of committee meeting in Santa Clara in 2018. “Could you use
concept/program test. It is expected to move into a full- batteries instead of generators for backup power?” Yes,
build prototype soon. The robot prototype is expected to we can. But the battery industry needed to catch up a bit
’d like to start with some exciting Unlike other organizations, R&D secret. We tend to file provisional and be completed in about 18 months. We are also exploring for their products and production scale. We needed to
news: our solar panel robot considers our business’s future and full patents because our inventions new inventions and adapting some of their existing product grind out the concept, and we needed a partner. Today,
successfully passed its Phase 1 solving the more immediate problems make it into public view soon after for our use, such as MV cable splice prep. we have a solution that will be presented to our energy,
test during the week of March that can really help our teams in the they are developed. Without that manufacturing, hyper-scale data center, and wholesale colo
I8th! We’re now moving into the short term. protection, people can and will steal Another area we’re working on is the Kit of Parts (KoP). The data center clients later this quarter that eliminates all UPS
Phase 2 prototype development— our ideas without recourse or even KoP is a series of Field-defined catalogs, built by Steve Rose power systems and generators from the data center while
more on that below. Like the solar You’ve heard us say that “Everyone is patent them themselves! On the other and Eric Abbott, for in-wall, in-ceiling, overhead supports, providing conditioned and continuous power as good as
panel robot, if you have a good idea, an inventor.” That’s certainly true at hand, many of our inventions, such wall-mounted and floor-mounted anchorage, commodity the systems they are replacing. The BESSESS is a merger of
reach out to Charles Zhou or me with Rosendin. We have filed six provisional as the job cost reports, estimating lighting, and next-generation lighting control. They are ideas between our Renewable Energy and Mission Critical
it, and we’ll help the process along. patents in the past six months, with databases, all of our Oracle and P6 optimized by the Field as what’s the optimal installation business. Essentially, we’ve been looking for a continuous
two more in the pipeline. Only one customization, Revit customization and choice. Ironically, a modestly more costly assembly usually power solution that removes a lot of expensive equipment
“Necessity is the mother of invention” of those ideas actually originated assemblies, Advanced Work Packaging results in a lower cost of installation. from the data center. Based on the cost and reliability
is a proverb that we’ve all heard from R&D. This doesn’t even count (AWP), and how all this stuff talks models we’ve run, the electrical cost of a hyper-scale data
many times. It’s from Plato’s Republic. the legion of Intellectual Property (IP) to each other are trade secrets. We The KoP catalogs also allows for large-scale corporate center could be cut in half while offering similar or better
We’re not sure if the ancient Greeks that MPS has developed. Presently, protect them from our competition by buyouts on commodities and assemblies. We can choose reliability numbers than traditional designs. We’re going to
embraced prefab, packaging, Rosendin holds over 80 provisional or keeping them a secret. If you have an to buy it, customize it, or have the shop fabricate it. One keep this one under wraps for a bit longer.
advanced work planning, and full patents. idea, speak with your project team and of the benefits is that installation rates can be evaluated
estimating as we do. Still, this notion then give us a ring with your questions across several jobs, regions, or the entire company for the There are a ton of other initiatives that we’re working with
is very much at the core of Rosendin With all these great ideas, how do we on the next steps. same activity because the assembly will be very similar partner organizations. More on those in the next issue! In
R&D. We consider and examine how protect them? In two ways, patents from job to job. We simply took the “parts” variance from the meantime, stay safe and keep inventing!
we “solve for the need” every day. and copyrights, and keeping it a

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