33 Years of Rugged LCDs
With 33 years of unparalleled expertise in LCD technology, we stand as the pioneers in crafting displays engineered to excel in the harshest outdoor environments. Our relentless commitment to innovation ensures that every screen delivers exceptional performance and durability, no matter the conditions. Trust the industry leader for superior visibility, reliability, and excellence in outdoor LCD solutions.
Our History
Founded in 2004, Manufacturing Resources International, Inc. (MRI) quickly emerged as the industry-leading provider of Outdoor Digital LCD Displays for the expanding Digital Out-Of-Home (DOOH) market. This was based on leveraging its design and engineering in mission-critical display technology. MRI was born as a technical spin-off from American Panel Corporation (APC), which itself was established in 1998 as a sister company of Avionic Display Corporation (ADC). ADC, founded in 1991, was among the first companies to introduce full-color LCD technology to the military, business, and commercial aircraft sectors, tackling the most demanding and harshest environmental conditions.
APC quickly became the dominant Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for digital displays in fighter jets and military ground vehicles. These purpose-designed displays are renowned for their resilience in extreme temperatures, high-altitude solar exposure, and even the intense conditions of Apache helicopters and M1A2 Abrams tanks. With this legacy of engineering excellence, MRI set out to revolutionize the DOOH industry, bringing the rugged durability and high performance of mission-critical technology to outdoor digital LCD displays
This “mission-critical” design philosophy has been the core to MRI’s BoldVu® product line for 20 years.
Reimagining what is possible with a digital display
MRI is delivering on the promise of a digital future where technology makes our lives better. With digital displays engineered for extended performance in outdoor spaces, and a housing for devices that empower wireless communications, MRI’s BoldVu® displays are multi-use endpoints that transform how we engage and communicate within our communities.
Our Capabilities
MRI is based in Alpharetta, Georgia USA and is home base for the teams that design, engineer, fabricate, and support BoldVu® displays. Activity in this 220,000+ sqft. facility includes:
- Electrical, mechanical, optical engineering
- Printed circuit board (PCB) production
- Glass processing
- Metal fabrication
- Powder-coat painting
- Mechanical and electrical assembly
- Environmental stress-testing and quality assurance
- Firmware/software development
- Global NOC, customer support, and field services
Timeline:
20 Years of BoldVu® Products, based upon 33 years and counting of knowledge and lessons learned in deploying LCD based displays that not only survive, but thrive in the harshest of ambient environmental conditions.
2024 is the 20th anniversary of Manufacturing Resources International, Inc (MRI) and the launch of the 17th Generation of BoldVu® technology.
BoldVu® by MRI – Generation Seventeen:
- Up to 30% more energy efficient
- Higher color saturation (> 104% NTSC)
- 40% quieter
Low Profile, Direct Sun, Outdoor LCD Display
The 55” BoldVu® Universal Mount Displays (UMD) slim down to meet the ADA requirement for wall mounted obstacles, requiring no third-party mounting peripherals.
The First Ever Digital Touch Controller
Available exclusively on 55” through 86” BoldVu® displays, the revolutionary all-glass InfiniteTouch® does away with conventional analog detection and uses digital frequency detection Projected Capacitive (PCAP) touch technology.
First deployed on interactive kiosks for Barclays Center arena in NYC.
High volume deployment of transparent LCDs in beverage coolers for Anheuser Busch.
High volume deployment of LCD based taxi toppers in Las Vegas and NYC
Industry First Large Format (72”) Touchscreen LCDs.
Deployed in San Francisco, CA Bus Shelters.
American Panel Corporation (APC) Founded as a sister company of Avionic Display Corporation (ADC).
APC quickly became the sole Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) of mission-critical digital displays in both avionic (military and commercial) cockpits and military ground vehicles. (APC sold in 2019).
As with ADC, APC continued to gain extensive real-world experience in making LCDs thrive in the world’s harshest and mission critical environments. Not only temperature extremes (-55°C to +85°C ambient), direct high altitude solar exposure, shock, vibration, explosive decompression, rain, dust, salt fog, sea water, but also Apache helicopter gun fire and rotor vibration, and M1A2 Abrams Tank percussive gun fire, track-slap, gun butt and boot kick impact.
Avionic Display Corporation (ADC) founded as one of the world’s first companies to bring full-color LCD technology to the military, business, and commercial aircraft cockpit…one of the most demanding and mission critical applications in the world. Harshest temperature extremes, solar exposure, shock, vibration, explosive decompression, rain, dust, salt fog, etc.
