Aug 21, 2025

August 2025 - Article

Electrification in batteries is advancing at a breathtaking speed, but Diagnostic Battery Management (DBM) is not keeping pace. Every year, over one million good batteries are discarded while the battery remains the weakest link in the chain. Statistics reveal that batteries cause half of equipment failures by ignoring Minimum... Read More

Jul 14, 2025

July 2025 - Article

Academia says companies are slow to adopt AI. This may be true as AI works best in composing essays, assisting in legal cases, supporting healthcare and helping professors. AI is less useful when looking for solutions and searching for common sense. AI was absent when man tamed wild horses... Read More

Jun 20, 2025

June 2025 - Article

Battery diagnostics has been lagging and Cadex is making efforts to strengthen the weakest link, the battery. Statistics reveal that half of systems fail because of faded batteries, a weakness that the FDA in healthcare also realizes. Meanwhile every year over a million good batteries are discarded that causes... Read More

May 13, 2025

May 2025 - Article

A product is only as good as the infrastructure. As a ship seeks a port to moor, a plane approaches an airport to land, and a roaming smartphone searches for a tower to communicate, so also does Spectro™ rely on a matrix to assess battery state-of-health (SoH). The technology departs... Read More

Apr 10, 2025

April 2025 - Article

As I visited large military hospitals in Beijing and Shanghai, I met a General of the Chinese Army who said that army tanks often get stuck in the mud with dead batteries. As we ask military personnel the question: "At what capacity do you replace the battery?" few can answer... Read More

Mar 17, 2025

March 2025 - Article

The success of a company rests on products that are ahead of time. As batteries are the weakest link in a chain, opportunities arise in servicing them with Diagnostic Battery Management. Bringing these products to market requires strong Visionary, Design, and Sales disciplines that we promote. Each step needs... Read More

Feb 18, 2025

February 2025 - Article

Cadex celebrates its 40th Birthday in 2025. The first Cadex battery analyzer was sold in 1981 under Buchmann Enterprises Inc. After obtaining the Cadex trademark (®), I changed the company name to Cadex Electronics Inc. in 1985. ‘Cadex’ is derived from “Cadmium-Exerciser.” The early success of Cadex rests on... Read More

Jan 20, 2025

January 2025 - Article

Building innovative Cadex products requires vision and imagination, a skill that is not taught in school. Never did we have so many developments on the drawing board as now to measure battery life and share performance with users and fleet supervisors. The Universal Supervisor Charger (USC) with Cloud Analytics is... Read More

Dec 16, 2024

December 2024 - Article

The Battery Care Center by Cadex strengthens a system by securing sufficient battery capacity for given field uses, governed by the Target Selector. Weak batteries are removed; new supply can be provided with minimal human touch. At the center is the Universal Supervisor Charger (USC) that evaluates the performance of... Read More

Nov 15, 2024

November 2024 - Article

Steve Jobs from Apple was a true visionary. Having developed the personal computer, he hired John Sculley in 1983 to help run the newly created company. With limited technical knowledge, however, internal disagreements arose and Sculley kicked Jobs out of Apple in 1985. At first, Apple did well under Sculley... Read More

Oct 16, 2024

October 2024 - Article

Steve Jobs from Apple said: “People don't know what they want until you show it to them". He was against any form of market research but invented products that people did not know were needed. He was a true visionary. Working with GE as a service technician, I learned... Read More

Sep 13, 2024

September 2024 - Article

We are adding new blood to Cadex. My sons Paul, Tommy, and Robert are joining as Executive Directors with focus on Strategic Growth. The three boys are part of my family of five children who I raised as a single dad. All have successful careers and now also support... Read More

Aug 06, 2024

August 2024 - Article

This Newsletter lists Cadex line products (LP) in development. Each product services multiple themes to optimize market appeal and lower engineering costs. Cloud Analytics and the USC (Universal Supervisor Charger) will be available early next year with the analyzer series following. Product renewal fulfilling Plan 2030 Cloud Analytics All next-gen... Read More

Jul 04, 2024

July 2024 - Article

Batteries are a continuous conveyor belt in which some packs departing early while others overstay and cause failures. Batteries as power source remain an issue and a U.S. FDA survey said: “Up to 50% of issues in hospitals are battery related,” while a commander in the U.S. Army hinted... Read More

Jun 12, 2024

June 2024 - Article

Advanced battery diagnostics is similar to a medical examination that involves complex pharmaceutical tests. The end goal in battery testing is assessing the remaining useful life in capacity, the leading health indicator. Battery testing is divided into two basic methods. One is reading captured performance data stored in the... Read More

May 13, 2024

May 2024 - Article

As the world electrifies, battery diagnostics has been lagging behind core developments in batteries. Performance transparency must be equal or higher than traditional energy systems that burn fossil fuel. Cadex realizes the importance of battery diagnostics and is developing rapid-test technologies that assess battery capacity, the leading health indicator. Last... Read More

Apr 18, 2024

April 2024 - Article

A dog owner must always have enough dog food. When reserves get low, pressing the Amazon button gets a new bag to keep the dog happy. If this action is possible with such ease on dog food, replacing faded batteries requires equal ease and attention. A new generation of... Read More

Mar 15, 2024

Mar 2024 - Article

Making the Charger Obsolete Batteries need chargers and Cadex turns this necessary evil into a Diagnostic Battery Management system to make the performance transparent to the user. The Universal Supervisor Charger (USC) works in standalone mode and connects to a host to view the performance of a smart battery... Read More

Feb 12, 2024

Feb 2024 - Article

Electrification calls for advancements in battery diagnostics to track Minimum Operational Reserve Energy (MORE). MORE is a performance standard that maintains system reliability as batteries fade without the user noticing. Progress in battery diagnostics is visible in portable applications and electric vehicles deploying modern Battery Management Systems (BMS) with Li-ion... Read More

Jan 23, 2024

Jan 2024 - Article

New technologies often lead to “innovative blind spots,” and this is happening with electrification in batteries. Lithium-ion is a winning chemistry to store electrical energy but there is fear of failure that often starts in a faulty cell that propagates and engulfs the battery in fire. Such incidents are known... Read More

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