Contents Front End 80 years of business operations for RS Components Microlease launches cloud Asset Management service for test 4-10


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instruments and other fixed assets Data exchange in industrial environments brings specific challenges 8 Component availability: the ‘F’ & ‘A’ words and world of pain… 10


Interview


Partnerships driving Rutronik’s continuing success EMC & Circuit Protection


Protecting battery-powered designs


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EMC test preparation - minimise cost & optimise time to market 15 Pete Dorey, a principal consultant at TÜV SÜD Product Service and TÜV SÜD BABT, talks about the processes of EMC testing for finished electronic products


R&S ELECKTRA: easy-to-use software for measuring 16


electromagnetic interference (EMI) Every electrical device must pass EMC tests before market approval can be granted. This obstacle is easier to overcome if the device’s EMC behaviour can be assessed and influenced during the development stage. New EMC test software for Rohde & Schwarz measuring receivers and spectrum analysers offers valuable support


Distribution What’s so special about specialist distribution?


Debbie Rowland, director, Charcroft Electronics asks the question: is there any real difference in the support that engineers can expect from a specialist and a broadline distributor?


Fit to wear: industry concentrates on health aspects of


wearable technology Distributors can help reduce costs for OEMs Size isn’t everything in distribution


Display Technology A ten-point guide to purchasing an LCD display 21


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Displays are often a prominent feature in science-fiction and futuristic visions. We have now actually reached that future: OLEDs enable the creation of thin, flexible, transparent displays, and in new shapes too. They offer enormous opportunities to add new features to existing applications, or to create entirely new-style products


Display specification gets in shape Touch measures up to oil and mining industry demands Optoelectronics


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Ian Crosby, sales and marketing director, Zytronic, talks about touch screen displays in the oil and mining industry


31 Image sensor platforms for high performance industrial imaging 31 Industrial Cyber hardening: this message could self-destruct 33-38 33


Protecting sensitive information has become such an important issue, it now has a name – cyber hardening. Innodisk, the Taiwanese expert in industrial embedded memory, has pioneered cyber hardening technology, and as we will see, with their new range of secure flash drives they bring us closer to that ultimate delete key – physical self-destruction


Enabling next generation MedTech applications


Denis Pasero, product commercialisation manager, Ilika, talks to CIE about the next generation of applications in the medical sector


New generation of modular box PC systems


Air-cooling vs water-cooling: a guide to choosing cooling systems for industrial applications


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