(Huntsville, Alabama — May 05, 2014)
Future Designs, Inc. celebrated its 25th year in business this week with a dinner party at Grille 29 in Providence, honoring the rich history of the company in Huntsville, AL.
FDI Employees and families
FDI was incorporated in the state of Alabama on March 22, 1989 by Kent Lowman and Mark Hall, who both graduated from UAH and learned the basics of design at SCI locally in Huntsville. In 1990, FDI’s initial project was the industry’s first Solid State Disk Drive. FDI also designed and produced the InUrEar disposable earpiece, which was used by the PGA and several major sporting organizations in high volume. Other products in the company’s history include the high volume Renesas RDK Development kits for the RX63N and RL78/G14 microcontrollers along with a variety of boards and Dev Kits supporting ARM based microcontrollers from NXP and others. More recently, FDI has developed the µEZ® GUI family of instant touchscreen Graphical User Interface modules which are being used in products ranging from exercise equipment to commercial cookers, infusion pumps and even an Instrument Cluster for an electric vehicle.
Kent Lowman and Mark Hall at SCI in 1980’s
In its extensive 25 year history, FDI has become partners with industry-leading companies such as Philips, NXP, Renesas, Freescale, and others. FDI has also signed franchise agreements with industry leading distributors such as Avnet, Digi-Key and Mouser.
FDI is also proud of its contribution to the local economy, having made direct contributions of $30M to the local Huntsville and Madison County economy and an estimated indirect contribution of approximately $90M to the local economy. In August of 2012, FDI moved into its new corporate headquarters located at 996 A Cleaner Way, in Chelsea Industrial Park.
More information on FDI or our products can be found on our website at www.uezgui.com or at www.teamfdi.com
About Future Designs, Inc.
Future Designs, Inc. is a full service design and production company with hardware, software, mechanical and system level expertise. We offer one stop shopping for our customers and provide “as much” or “as little” help as needed to get your product to market.
FDI can take your concept all the way from the back of a napkin, through design and prototypes, to high volume production, branded with your logo and shipped directly to your end customers. Our µEZ® GUI Family of integrated solutions for Touchscreen LCD Graphical User Interfaces provides an “Off The Shelf” solution that allows customers to quickly and cost effectively upgrade their User Interfaces to meet today’s market requirements.
FDI has a proven 25 year history of successful product design and manufacturing. Please give us a call at (256) 883-1240 to find out how we can help make your product a success. Visit FDI on the web at www.teamfdi.com.
Editorial Contact for Future Designs, Inc.
Daniel Horton
Marketing
Future Designs, Inc.
256-883-1240, ext 29 (voice)
[email protected]