Integrated components are back to create "smart systems."
One of the messages we teach in our business seminars is you can't predict the future; you can only be an observer, follower or leader in its development.
Seasoned observers will have noticed the relatively recent return of integrated components into finished units. Remember the combination valve, actuator and control products introduced some 20 years ago? Well these integrated units are back, as are a number of other goods once considered too advanced for the marketplace. This return to the past is the current trend; integrating units into modules and modules into sub-systems. The process is leading the future of sub-system integration into engineered comfort systems based on hybrid (air and water) methodology.