Smart Stories: Whirlpool

The Challenge:
Create green cleaning machines.

The Solution:
Equip washers and dryers with sophisticated electronic control systems and user-interface circuits that efficiently control water and energy usage. How? By harnessing the power of the Freescale MC908AX microcontrollers.

Their industry-leading programming speed, reliability and powerful design aids like background debug mode helped Whirlpool’s engineers quickly turn the cool concept into a concrete conservation effort. So now every load of laundry is less of a load on the earth. Feeling clean never felt so good.