INCREASED INVESTMENT PROMPTS BUSINESS WINS IN SPACE AND AVIONICS H
i-rel connector and SMT board hardware manufacturer
Harwin has announced that increased investment in its Salem, New Hampshire cable assembly facility is winning new business in the demanding and specialised space and avionics sector. At its USA site, Harwin’s cabling capabilities include building to customer datasheet, prototyping, and electrical and mechanical testing of both cable and wire
harnesses and coaxial cable assemblies. Over the past twelve months, increased investment in equipment plus intensive additional staff development and training, has led to successful fulfilment of orders from a number of high-tech customers with demanding quality requirements. Prototypes and small builds for
early stage projects with the additional advantage of no MOQ are a Harwin speciality, proving
attractive to space and avionics customers. Harwin already boasts a strong presence in these markets through its Hi-rel connector ranges, and in particular, the 1.25mm pitch Gecko interconnect, which has been specified on multiple programmes from satellites and CubeSats to mission and safety-critical aircraft control systems. Additional investment at Salem has resulted in an expanded QA
Department, additional training, and upgrading of warehouse management systems.
www.harwin.com
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DISTRIBUTOR RECEIVES AWARD FOR SALES AND CUSTOMER GROWTH
the Year award. The award is presented based on sales growth and business plan realisation, including customer growth, TE share and TE engagement. Joan Wainwright, president,
Future Electronics was recently recognised by TE Connectivity, with the Global Broadline Distributor of
Channel and Customer Experience, TE Connectivity, said: “Future’s commitment to support engineers in demand creation efforts has contributed to their global POS growth as well as their customer growth.”
“Future Electronics’ growth with TE Connectivity is due to our focus
on providing the best product solutions to our customers’ engineering and product development teams through our sales force, and engineering team,” said Vittorio Pisttorio, EMEA sales director P.I.E He continued, “Being recognised as the Global Broadline Distributor of the Year by such a strategic partner as TE Connectivity is a great honour. This award is an indicator of the success of Future Electronics’ interconnect program.”
www.futureelectronics.com
TRUCK ROLLS IN FOR COMPETITION FINALS D
istribution is one of the most important routes to
market for many companies producing electronic components, so it is fitting that our features start with a look at a distributor, who is expanding its European facilities in Germany, to help fulfil customer needs. Other feature areas worth
noting are Power Electronics and Interconnection. The former looks at IEC60601-1 4th Edition and what it means for power supplies in medical systems, while the latter examines the current position of the USB-Type C. Michelle Lea Acting Editor
4 MAY 2017 | ELECTRONICS
RS Components (RS) brought its RS Live Innovation in Motion truck to Silverstone in celebration of the partnership with the UK Land Rover 4x4 in Schools Technology Challenge - providing the opportunity for the engineers of tomorrow to interact with the truck, at the national final of the competition. The event saw students from 150 secondary schools nationwide battle for the championship crown, after submitting their bespoke 4x4 all- terrain scale model remote-controlled vehicles in the national competition. RS ran a Facebook competition, in which teams were invited to vote for their favourite car on the RS and Education Facebook page. The winning team of this was Epsilon Engineers, Denbigh School, Milton Keynes, and Overall National UK Winner of the challenge was Robust, Moor End Academy, Huddersfield. Three judges from RS joined the panel to assess the finalists. RS is the official technical partner of the UK Land Rover 4x4 in Schools
Technology Challenge, an educational initiative for 11-19-year- old students which encourages teams to build a remote-control vehicle and put it through its paces in a series of tests - the same that Land Rover use for their full-size vehicles. RS also donated Arduino starter
kits and various other components to participating schools, as well as helping with advice on technical equipment. In addition to bringing its innovation truck, RS supported the competition finals event on its social media channels, running a competition for teams and streaming the event live on Facebook.
www.rs-online.com
Panasonic Corporation has announced the launch of, what is said to be, the world’s first tablet using centimeter- level RTK-GNSS technology, in collaboration with u-blox. Toughpad, the new version of Panasonic’s professional grade notebooks family, is specifically designed for precision agriculture, machine control and robotic guidance applications in harsh environments and conditions. Embedded in the tablet is a u-blox NEO-M8 GNSS receiver module delivering high integrity and precision in demanding applications.
www.u-blox.com
Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente is expanding its team in the United Kingdom and is opening another office to boost the existing presence in Bolton, near Manchester. The new Rutronik Office in Swindon
officially opened on 10 April 2017, and 14 field sales staff will be serving existing and potential customers in the south of the country from here. Thomas Rudel, CEO of Rutronik, said: “This additional office enables us to better cover the country while also bringing us closer to our customers and suppliers in the south.” Around 60% of the DTAM in the UK and Ireland is attributable to the south of England.
www.rutronik.com
Anglia is partnering with some of the biggest names in IoT technology to create ‘Meet the IoT’, a conference and exhibition that provides detailed and specific input on designing IoT systems. The events will take place at the Madjeski Stadium, Reading (14th June) and Old Trafford, Manchester (21st June).
The conference features nine
technical presentations from key partners on the IoT, that includes discussions on cellular services (including NB-IoT), Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, sub GHz (including LoRa and Sigfox) along with sensing, antenna solutions, battery technologies and embedded solutions for IoT.
www.anglia.com / ELECTRONICS
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