Front End I News 80 years of business operations
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S Components (RS) celebrated 80 years since opening its business operations in London, UK, on Thursday 14th September.
The company was originally founded as Radiospares in 1937, a supplier of parts to the burgeoning radio market, and has now evolved to become a global distribution enterprise, with operations in Europe, North America and Asia, offering a diverse portfolio of more than 500,000 electronic and industrial components. RS Components celebrated their birthday by opening a new RS Local branch situated in Bermondsey. During the opening ceremony, attended by the Mayor of Southwark, Mike England, UK managing director and head of Northern Europe region at RS, said: “Out of the 16 local branches that we have across the UK, this is the first branch where we are moving
forward very progressively to create what we believe to be a very unique experience for our customers and also for the communities around us as well. “What we are creating here is the Apple
store of our industry; that’s the vision we have for the future. This is a destination for engineers and customers to come and buy products for their needs but equally to come and explore, to come and innovate, and to come and learn. We are in the process of rolling out this look and feel over all 16 locations over the coming months and years. We have a programme and already it’s fair to say that we have had such a huge amount of interest and footfall of people coming into this facility and we have been getting nothing but really positive feedback.” The company’s founding principle of service excellence, with ease of doing business at its core, has been a major factor in its success and longevity. This continues to underpin the strategy now being implemented by the new leadership team at RS as it prepares to transform the business to serve the changing landscape of the high-tech industry, and leverage opportunities in areas such as mechatronics and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Today, 60 per cent of the company’s
revenue is generated online, and the ability to create value for customers by using website metrics to analyse data is an area
that RS seeks to exploit in order to remain responsive and agile. Innovation is another vital keystone for supporting customers and suppliers through the product life cycle, and RS is continuing to develop its DesignSpark engineering community, offering technical support, free tools and inspiration to engineers in the design phase. RS is also focussed on inspiring the next generation of engineers. The company has a dedicated university programme and is involved in various projects aimed at nurturing partnerships with schools, government, investors and business, to create an ecosystem where innovation and engineering talent can thrive. For example, RS has recently partnered with STEM Learning to recruit STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassadors within the business to inspire schoolchildren through a series of workshops.
England commented: “RS has a unique offering and an unparalleled 80-year heritage, which we are proud to celebrate. Customers are at the heart of everything we do, and our focus remains on service excellence, which we will achieve by keeping abreast of technology and market dynamics. This approach,
along with our passion to innovate and to inspire the next generation of engineers, is vital in ensuring that RS continues to prosper for the next 80 years and more.”
www.uk.rs-online.com
Power Integrations launches InnoSwitch3, a 94 per cent-efficient offline flyback switcher IC family
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ower Integrations, a leader in high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion, has announced the release of its InnoSwitch3 family of
offline CV/CC flyback switcher ICs. The new devices achieve up to 94 per cent efficiency across line and load conditions, slashing power supply losses by a further 25 per cent and enabling the development of compact power supplies up to 65 W without heatsinks. InnoSwitch3 devices are ideal for power supplies with challenging energy consumption, footprint or thermal constraints, particularly those targeting mandatory Total Energy Consumption (TEC) specifications.
The InnoSwitch3 IC family is optimised into three application-specific series: • CE: Current External. Includes accurate CC/CV
regulation with external output current sense for optimum design flexibility. Targets compact single-voltage chargers, adapters, IoT and building automation. • CP: Constant Power. Ideal for USB Power Delivery (PD), rapid charging and other applications where a dynamic output voltage is required. • EP: Embedded Power. Features the family’s highest- rated MOSFET (725 V) and provides full line and load protection with excellent multi-output cross-regulation for demanding industrial applications and appliances. These newest flyback switcher ICs employ Power Integrations’ innovative isolated digital communications technology, FluxLink, plus synchronous rectification, quasi-
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resonant switching and a precise secondary-side feedback sensing and control circuit. This results in highly efficient, accurate, reliable power supply circuits without the need for optocouplers. InnoSwitch3 devices are CCC, UL and VDE safety-certified to bridge the isolation barrier, and the InSOP-24 package provides a low-profile, thermally efficient solution with extended 11.5 mm creepage and clearance between primary and secondary sides for high reliability, surge and ESD robustness. The new devices also incorporate a host of protection features, including lossless line overvoltage and under-voltage, output overvoltage, over-power, over-current and over-temperature protection, as well as output rectifier short-circuit protection. Device sub-families are provided with either latching or auto- recovery capability, according to the typical demands of each target application space. All InnoSwitch3 ICs feature on-board high-voltage MOSFETs (rated at 650 V for the CP and CE series and 725 V for the EP series). Mike Matthews, VP of product development at Power Integrations, comments: “InnoSwitch3 ICs represent a new state of the art in flyback power supply design. These new devices surpass the previously unrivaled efficiency of our InnoSwitch products, reducing losses by a further 25 per cent and delivering the highest available efficiency across all line and load conditions. With unmatched system simplicity and low component count, InnoSwitch3 ICs enable exceptionally compact, reliable power supplies for a vast range of applications.”
InnoSwitch3 ICs target adapters and open-frame power supplies for consumer, computer, communication and industrial applications. InnoSwitch3-CP and InnoSwitch3-CE IC samples are available now, priced at $1.11 (CE) and $1.15 (CP), in 10,000-piece quantities. InnoSwitch3-EP parts will be available in November 2017 at $1.18 per 10,000-pieces. An online selection tool, Build Your Own InnoSwitch, is available to help designers customise device features for their particular design specifications. Technical support for InnoSwitch3 ICs, including the PI Expert Online design tool, is available from the Power Integrations website.
www.power.com www.cieonline.co.uk
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