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A Carrier Corp. Company

PART NUMBER T82002163

REV A

FRS in brief

To re-design the current TripStrip TempTale Remote Printer that provides hardcopy printouts of

time/temperature data and related information from TempTale monitors.

The current version of the product, while suitable in many applications for most customers has

several deficiencies that impede further adoption of TempTale monitoring programs. In addition, the

product is RoHS compliant.

The TripStrip is an ancillary product, designed purely as an accessory in support of in-bound and

closed loop TempTale monitoring programs, primarily in the food and supermarket segments. In many

cases the product is offered to customers as a free or deeply discounted instrument in support of large

volume TempTale programs. Within this context product volumes are anticipated to be in the 100-500

units/year range.

The objectives of this project are:

• Eliminate the current TripStrip deficiencies and upgrade the product feature set per the

requirements described below.

• Maintain or reduce product costs at/from current level

• Provide product/system “architectural” features consistent with current and potential future

product line strategies.

• Minimize development and tooling/capital expense (the product is low-volume, with in-direct ROI

potential)