Welcome to the February issue of Instrumentation Monthly.
The date has been announced for the 2024 Instrumentation Excellence Awards. The Awards will return to the opulent Grand Connaught Rooms on 24 October 2024. Micro-Epsilon, ifm electronic, Napier and VEGA Controls have already been announced as sponsors of this year’s event. Nominations are open and you only have a few months to submit your entry to be in with a chance of winning a prestigious award. Turn to page 32 of this issue to find out more about the event and the 2024 categories.
DigiKey Marketplace and Fulfilled by DigiKey program. The company added more than 1.7 million new accessible parts, including 230,000+ parts with inventory available to sell, across its core business in 2023. “2023 was a year of record-breaking innovation as we continued to offer the newest technologies and reinforce our position as the distribution leader of a vast and expanding selection of components across many product groups,” said Mike Slater. “As we look forward to 2024, inventory is stabilising and returning to a state of normalcy, supporting DigiKey’s commitment to accelerate progress for every designer, buyer and builder by offering the largest supplier portfolio and widest product offering. We are excited to announce that these products are currently available to the global engineering community.”
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igiKey expanded its portfolio in 2023 by adding more than 450 new suppliers across their core business,
The company also continues to expand the diversity of its products and suppliers in new product categories with its DigiKey Marketplace, a single source for all aspects of technology innovation, including bare PCB boards, industrial automation, test and measurement, IoT solutions and virtually all things related and adjacent to technology innovation, all through a singular shopping experience. Marketplace products typically ship within one to five days directly from the supplier.
lement14, an Avnet Community, in collaboration with Hammond Manufacturing, is launching the “Experimenting with Extreme Environments” Design Challenge. Ten experimenters will have the opportunity to build projects that are able to withstand extreme environmental conditions, such as drastic temperature changes, dust, humidity and more, by using the provided kit to build an electronics system, house the system in an enclosure and perform experiments to test the enclosure against extreme conditions.
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“IoT solutions are increasingly being implemented around the world, which means that electronic devices are frequently being installed in, and exposed to harsh and extreme environments,” said Andreea Teodorescu, global director of Product Marketing & element14 Community. “We want this challenge to showcase that environmental impact firsthand and educate our members on
the importance of safeguarding measures, specifically the use of electronic enclosures.” Participants will receive a kit with components to design their electronic system and will be able to test their systems by simulating extreme environmental factors using water sprays, vibrations, dust, impact and other forces that mimic what electronics are exposed to outdoors. Applications are open until 8 March 2024. Once selected, participants have until 18 May 2024 to conduct their experiments and submit a detailed summary blog post. Participants can earn extra points by publishing up to five extra blog posts by 17 May 2024. Winners will be announced in May 2024.
The grand prize winner will receive a Fluke Thermal Imager as well as a Multicomp Pro Bench Power Supply, the runner-up will receive an Analog Discovery Pro 3000 Series: Portable High Resolution Mixed Signal Oscilloscope, third place will receive a Solder Pot and a Rachet Crimp Tool Kit both from Multicomp
Pro and other finishers of the challenge will receive a Tiny ML Kit from Arduino. To learn more about the Experimenting with Extreme Environments Challenge and to enter the competition, please visit
https://community.element14.com/challenges- projects/design-challenges/experimenting-with -extreme-environments/.
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