The Miele S8 features the HEPA AirClean filter, a HEPA Class 13 filter which achieves 99.95% filtration and holds back even the most minute particles and pollen, making it an ideal choice for allergy sufferers.
Miele has chosen TimeStrip to provide the change and replace visual reminder on the HEPA filter cartridge, to provide a clear visual notification of the need to replace the filter.
Activating the indicator couldn’t be easier: when fitting a new filter, the user simply presses on a green arrow indicator on the side of the filter housing the Timestrip. This triggers the Timestrip and results in the release of a specially formulated fluid encapsulated into the smart label. As the months pass, red indicator fluid slowly extends across the time check window. After approximately one year, the fluid fills the window and reaches the right-hand end of the strip, prompting the user to replace the saturated filter.
Commenting on the Miele project, Timestrip CEO Reuben Isbitsky said “This is a great example of a low-cost solution to the age old problem of reminding consumers that components in their products do need changing at the correct interval, and shows how leading brands are choosing Timestrip to help make this a simple, effective and value-adding proposition.”
About Timestrip
Timestrip is a global business making patented low-cost ‘smart’ indicators that monitor elapsed time and/or temperature changes. Timestrip® irreversible temperature indicator labels are triggered by breaches of acceptable temperature ranges and can be combined to show the duration of that temperature breach.
Timestrip® indicators can be supplied loose for storage or logistics environments, where quick ‘peal-and-stick’ application and monitoring sits within company standard operating procedures.
For product enhancement initiatives they can be designed into an engineered solution, where the Timestrip® becomes a highly visible feature integral to the physical product, creating a clear USP.
Timestrip Enabled™ products are driving changes in supply chain standard operating procedures and consumer behaviour, which in turn leads to greater brand loyalty, a better rate of sale and a built-in value added proposition to products carrying our mark of innovation.
Timestrip®indicators are transforming the supply chain monitoring processes used by global businesses in food service, pharmaceutical and consumer brand markets – helping to reduce wastage, monitor component lifetimes, deliver quality assurances, improve sales and build brand share.
The low-cost / high tech nature of the Timestrip® technology has led to working relationships with some of the world’s biggest manufacturers and well-known consumer brands including Miele, 3M, Whirlpool, Siemens, Parker Hannifin, Tesco; as well as the UK’s National Health Service and The Ministry of Defence.
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Miele adopts Timestrip technology to ensure consumers get the best out of vacuum cleaners
17 April 2014
Timestrip extends its reach into the household consumer appliance market with the arrival of the new Miele S8 Silence Plus Allergy model, featuring a Timestrip solution to alleviate the problem of remembering when to change and replace the all-important filter.