HAPTICORE in kitchen applications

Make operating your kitchen appliances simple, safe, and intuitive with freely programmable haptic feedback.

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Grease splashes, wet fingers, complex device menus & children’s hands on hot surfaces – especially when you’re in a hurry, the dream kitchen quickly becomes a cooking nightmare.

But cooking can be so much easier.

Let us give you some ideas on how you can use HAPTICORE and its smart haptic feedback to make the operation of your kitchen appliances simple, safe, and intuitive.

Products are becoming increasingly versatile, connected and offer more and more functions. And this trend has also arrived in the kitchen.

But especially when it comes to cooking, where many things happen at the same time and hands rarely stay dry and clean, the need for easy-to-use HMIs is essential for a pleasant cooking experience. This poses a major challenge for OEMs since mechanical switches and rotaries are not capable of handling the desired degree of complexity any more, whereas touch displays simply do not offer a comparable level of precision and control.

But with HAPTICORE, we give you the best of both worlds – programmable haptic feedback for the simple, safe, and intuitive operation of complex multi-layer user interfaces.

And HAPTICORE is much more than just a haptic rotary switch. It can offer a whole new level of guided cooking, make the user experience of connected smart home devices even more seamless, and thanks to smart haptic feedback modes, can make cooking safer for the entire family.

Thereby high-end materials, premium quality made in Austria, and multifarious customization options guarantee uncompromising product design.

What challenges in the kitchen we address with HAPTICORE

Intuitive Operation

Easy and safe operation of complex, multi-layered menu interfaces thanks to smart haptic force feedback

Custom cover design

Meeting numerous design requirements, whether simplistic, premium or discrete with clean surfaces

Safety Functions

Barrier and freewheeling functions ensure safety for the whole family, even when there is no adult in the kitchen

Guided Cooking

Ticks and stops make kitchen appliance operation simple and intuitive, so nothing gets in the way of the favorite recipe

Cross-Device Control

Operation of all various connected appliances with perfectly matched haptic feedback

Simple operation meets elegant design

Highest quality in hardware and software for a superior cooking experience

There are few rooms that are used as intensively as the kitchen. That’s why the focus is not just on functionality, but also on inspiring and equally timeless design – both in terms of product and user interface design.

But we live in a time when devices offer more and more functions and operation becomes increasingly complex. For this reason, there is a need for innovative operating solutions ensuring ease of use of new smart functions, while meeting the unique challenges of the kitchen environment.

With HAPTCORE and freely programmable haptic feedback, you bring back simplicity and intuitiveness to your kitchen appliances – without compromising on product design.

We’ve designed our HAPTICORE products to be adaptable to your product design, thanks to various mounting options and custom covers. This way, HAPTICORE can become a highlight or disappear within the surface of your appliance to give space to clean lines and flat surfaces. At the same time, its robust materials and premium finish ensure easy cleaning, fingerprint resistance, and durability for an entire kitchen lifetime!

Safety functions for increased safety and control

Maximum user control, through mechanical haptic feedback

HAPTICORE makes the use of your kitchen appliances not only easier and more intuitive but also safer. Safety in the kitchen is an important topic and especially relevant for families with young children.

Use HAPTICORE for parental control functions:

Physically lock your appliances via a smartphone app when you are not in the kitchen or design a safety lock feature that requires the knob to be turned with a certain torque to unlock.

Our customer integration team will be happy to assist you in creating and fine-tuning device-specific haptic feedback modes.

Learn more about our HAPTICORE Software Solutions

Software Solutions

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When guided cooking becomes even more intuitive

Haptic feedback for an easy and safe cooking experience

Turn, press, serve and enjoy. Smart cooking can be this simple, and HAPTICORE makes guided cooking even more intuitive and safe.

Assist your customers in every step and help them to achieve perfect cooking results through haptic force feedback.

Make use of increased tick force for additional guidance, whether it’s setting the temperature of the oven, adjusting the speed of the blender, or simply setting the exact right timer.

And if your customers choose to make individual settings on the recipe, that’s no problem either, as with HAPTICORE they retain the full control and precision of a classic, mechanical rotary switch.

Cross-device control with appliance specific menus and smart haptic feedback

Enrich your smart home system

With software-based, freely programmable haptic feedback, HAPTICORE brings cross-device operation into the kitchen for a unique smart home experience.

Start, operate and stop any kitchen appliance from any connected device and offer your customers a consistent user experience with familiar haptic feedback and distinctive user interfaces.

And the more devices integrate into the smart home system, the easier it gets. With smart haptic feedback your customers can intuitively adjust appliance settings at any time, in any room, and from any connected device.

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Our recommended HAPTICORE products

The picture shows three different HAPTICORE 34 rotary haptic actuators without their metal covers.

HAPTICORE 34-P002

Robust, powerful, and fully customizable

The HAPTICORE 34-P002 is ideally suited for a wide range of kitchen applications. Its performance and technical specifications (temperature range, IP rating, etc.) are optimized for use in white goods appliances.

Its variations with different recess levels and the possibility to freely design the cover mounting mechanism make the HAPTICORE34-P002 the right product for your design aesthetics.

HAPTICORE 14-P001X1

Small, discreet, and versatile

The HAPTICORE 14-P001X1 impresses with its small size yet excellent haptic feedback for single-finger operation. This allows the easy integration of haptic feedback into thumb wheels or flat turntables on panels and even surfaces.

HAPTICORE 14-P001X1

Try it now!

HAPTICORE Eval Kits

Experience the immersive haptic feedback of our actuators firsthand with the HAPTICORE Eval Kits.

Integrate our smart haptic technology into your prototype projects, replace conventional control elements and go beyond the limitations of traditional UI design.

HAPTICORE Eval Kits