Manufacturing

Omni-channel distributor, RS Components, has become a member of  Make UK, the UK’s manufacturing organisation to promote innovation in and the development of skills for the British manufacturing industry. RS Components’ managing director, UK and Ireland, Emma Bofield, said: “Our membership will enable us to contribute to [the Make UK] community, using our unique position as a global service and ...

Pico Technology has won a second Queen’s Award for Enterprise, in its 30th anniversary year. The St Neots company designs and makes ‘Pico Scope’ PC oscilloscopes, PC data loggers and automotive diagnostics tools in the UK. It employs over 170 people worldwide. “I would like to thank the team at Pico, our customers and suppliers and our partners worldwide for ...

Segger has tied up with Renesas to add DLM (device lifecycle management) and Trustzone partitioning during mass production for Renesas’ Arm Cortex-M33 based RA4 and RA6 microcontrollers. The new features are additions to Segger’s ‘Flasher’ line of in-circuit programmers, and are available to owners of existing Flashers as a software update with “no charge, no license cost and no hidden ...

PCB contract electronic manufacturer UK Circuits and Electronics Solutions (UKC) has added a surface mount component counter and a screen printer to its production line in Manchester. “During the pandemic we experienced an unprecedented period of growth and built a strong order book through both existing and new business,” said MD Marc. “Given our high levels of demand we felt that it ...

Vicor has shown commitment to US manufacturing, building its new $75m power supply module manufacturing plant at its home in Andover Massachusetts, where it has been making all of its products for 40 years. “The expansion adds 2.5 times more capacity than the current facility,” according to the company. “This new capacity is integral to Vicor’s strategy and success in its automotive ...

PragmatIC Semiconductor is building a second fabrication line for its flexible integrated circuits in County Durham, this time on a brown-field site in Meadowfield near Durham. ‘PragmatIC Park’ as it will be known, is starting with a 175,000ft2 (~16,300m2) building on the St John’s road industrial estate, the site of multiple re-developments. “We chose this site for a number of reasons,” ...

Last month, government funding body UK Research and Innovation revealed the winners in its £22m Supply Chains for Net Zero Competition – announced in March 2021 and focused on supply chain development for power electronics, electric machines and drives (PEMD). “The coming electric revolution presents an opportunity to put the UK at the forefront of a burgeoning industry, creating manufacturing jobs and ...

PCB-based packaging for GaN power devices and modules is the subject of a UK government-funded consortium that will develop both technology and an all-UK GaN module supply-chain. The project, ‘Pre-packaged power devices for PCB embedded power electronics’ (P3EP), has a nominal value of £2.5m and includes funding through the ‘Driving the Electric Revolution (DER) challenge’ of UK Research and Innovation. Click ...

Sussex-based Servomex has launched a sensor that measures ammonia in industrial processes. Built around a tuneable laser diode, ‘Laser 3 Plus Environmental’ is a two-part device that beams and receives a laser that passes though process gas – across the exhaust vent, for example. It is used as the sensor in industrial processes – specifically the ‘ammonia slip de-NOx’ process – ...

 GlobalFoundries has set up a dedicated photonics unit called GF Fotonix. GloFo is collaborating with Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Marvell, NVIDIA and photonics specialists Ayar Labs, Lightmatter, PsiQuantum, Ranovus and Xanadu, to deliver the advantages of photonics.  GloFo says it has active design wins with major customers, significant market share today and expects its growth in this segment to outpace the market.     GLoFo is partnering with Cisco on ...