Distribution

New data shows positive and increased opportunities in various industries even with shortage and price uncertainty still affecting the supply chain, says OEMSecrets, the people who power our EW-Compare tool. With the growing need for stable supply chain networks, OEMSecrets has identified four key trends that reflect a recurring theme in 2021. Tracking these trends, OEMSecrets has extrapolated the following ...

Design demands include a decrease in device size, cost and power consumption, while improving accuracy, sensitivity and reliability, observes Bill Walsh of Digi-Key Electronics. Of the four common types of temperature sensors – thermocouples, resistance temperature devices, thermistors and temperature sensor ICs – temperature sensor ICs are a good option for contact-based medical and healthcare designs. Principally, they do not ...

Digi-Key Electronics has partnered with Make – the publishers behind the maker magazines and books – to release an augmented reality (AR) app to accompany its 2021 Boards Guide. Divided into sections for microcontroller (MCU), single-board controller (SBC) and field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based boards, the guide helps students, makers and professional engineers navigate the latest technology for their possible ...

The European components distribution market is feeling chipper today, as DMASS (European Semiconductor Distribution) reports a jump in sales of 31.8% in semiconductors in Q3 and 44.7% for interconnect, passive and electromechanical (IPE) components. DMASS reported Q3 distribution revenue for semiconductors of €2.46bn and €1.13bn for IPE distribution sales. The combined members of DMASS, covering nearly 80% of European components’ ...

Digi-Key Electronics is launching a new video series called “Supply Chain Transformed”, highlighting the stops a product makes from design to production, including its route through warehouses, manufacturing facilities and shipping processes. The first video in the series – available now – is “Components at the Source”. Asking the question How did these products get here?, it follows the supply ...

Farnell has signed an agreement with Omega to stock its complete range of sensing, control and monitoring products for factory automation and Industry 4.0, for delivery in the APAC region. The portfolio adds 620 products to Farnell’s inventory, including power supplies, sensors, transducers, switches, relays, transformers, enclosures, panel displays, instrumentation, cables, connectors and components for electrical, cooling and thermal management. ...

A worldwide survey finds everyone dislikes sexism, but Caroline Hayes delves deeper into some of the responses to see how that translates to a real acceptance of women in the engineering workplace. Farnell has published its Women in Engineering 2021 survey results and has taken a very upbeat approach to how women in 2021 view their roles in the workplace. ...

Distributor, Telonic Instruments offers bi-directional sink source DC power supplies by Delta Elektronika. The SM210-CP-150 (0 to 210V, -150 to +150A) are capable of 15kW, extendable to 900kW in master/slave mode for battery and motor testing. The manufacturer’s Power Recovery (Regeneration) technology is a standard feature. This means that in sink mode the power supplies can return full power to ...

Digi-Key Electronics has added new features in its Scheme-it tool, a free online schematics and diagramming systems for engineers, teachers and students. They’re intended to help further simplify the designing, and sharing, of electronic circuit diagrams and schematics. Symbols and markup You can now use Ultra Librarian’s symbols, create your own customised versions and use mathematics markup via LaTeX. Specifically, ...

Amphenol’s Conec range of M8x1 D-coded circular connectors are optimised for industrial automation applications. “These connectors present engineers with all the attributes necessary to meet the ISO11801 Class D standard for up to 100Mbit/s fast Ethernet signal transmissions,” according to RS Components, which is stocking the parts. They have 0.8mm diameter contact pins rated at up to 4A at 40°C, work at 50Vac ...