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Describes several products offered in the electronics industry. Features of a 100 ampere circuit-breaker-for equipment from E-T-A Circuit Breakers; Information on the 24-bit analogue-to-digital converter introduced by Linear Technology; Details of toroidal inductors released by Standex Electronics.

Component distributors are quietly confident that the predicted exodus of electronic design firms from Europe to lower cost regions will not happen because local design activity will always need to be close to the market. The European design debate is prompting component distributors to ask how the types of design-in work will change in the future. According to Chris McAneny, northern European marketing director, Arrow Electronics, the electronics industry's traditional design-to-manufacture processes have become far more complex to track. The market situation is further complicated for distributors with many companies employing virtual business models whereby some element of the 'design to production process' is outsourced. INSET: Keeping track of global design-ins.

Reports on how electronic component distributors in Great Britain search for strategies to promote future revenue growth, as of June 2003. Attributions to the weak market; Companies involved in such activity; Strategies being considered.

The article reports on the strong growth of electronic components sales in Great Britain as of May 2018. It states that suppliers and distributors fear that the strong growth will not survive the year ahead amid the uncertainty about Brexit. It also mentions that the market is improving as the summer approaches, with sales jumping 27% between February and March.

The article reports that the British Standards Institution (BSI) has developed some guidelines to address ethical issues related to the development and application of robots and robotic systems. Leroy Spence, head of sales development at robotic component supplier EU Automation, says that the BSI's guidelines try to deal with ethical issues related to the use of autonomous systems in industrial and consumer environments.

The article focuses on a report submitted by national survey which investigates huge variations observed in salary levels of engineers and sales executives across electronics industry of Great Britain. It discusses several facts regarding survey results which includes increase in average salary of engineers, managers and sales staff working in the electronics industry by five percent, increase in business confidence in the electronics sector and regional differences in salary.

The article focuses on the views of various experts in the electronics industry in Great Britain regarding the market conditions and growth prospects. Adam Fletcher, chairman of the Electronic Components Supply Network (ECSN) & Afdec, says that returns are uncertain as the level of risk to further economic uncertainty remains high. John Bowman marketing director for semiconductors at Anglia, says that the returning demand is benefitting clexible and fast-moving companies.

The article reports on an initiative to raise the profile of engineering as a career choice for Great Britain's students backed by the country's most successful electronic companies. It reports on an event at the University of Surrey, part of the initiative, which is giving, engineering students an opportunity to learn from the best in the electronics industry in the country. It states electronic engineering remains a key enabling technology for the country's economic growth.

The article presents an interview with senior representatives of one of the supporting companies of the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) Andy Repton and Rebecca Fradley and electronic engineering student Adam Maplass. Repton and Fradley talks about the challenges they faced in recruiting at graduate level and the scheme that matches the need of the industry. Maplass talks about his fascination with electronics and areas of interest in the industry.

The article presents information on the popularity of 3D television (TV)system. The fact that two-dimensional TV and video pictures can now be seen in 3D created excitement at the recent International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. According to report, the estimated shipments of 3D TV in 2010 was 3.4 million, and the market is expected to grow from 5% in 2010 to 37% in 2014.

The article focuses on revival seen in the electronics manufacturing industry of Great Britain after the economic slowdown of 2008-09. It reports the increase in orders received by the companies, and presents views of several executives including Phil Inness, David Taylor, and David Davies on the growth in their businesses. Also discussed is the component supply problems faced by the industry along with business strategies of various manufacturers.

The article reports that electronics manufacturers in Great Britain and France have decided to come together to bring object-activated touch screens to shops and museums.

The article presents information on various developments concerning the electronics industry. Spirit Circuits has created a new online polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) prototyping service called PCBsnap, which is intended to allow customers to get a prototype made as part of a fixed cost service. Contour has signed a franchised distributor agreement with push/pull connector manufacturer ODU.

The article presents information on the growth of small and medium business enterprise (SMEs) across most sectors of the electronics industry represents an sales opportunity which suppliers see as too important to ignore, and the distributor has an important role to play in all this. According to Colin Weaving, European technical director at Future Electronics, with SMEs design teams are typically smaller and as a result there can be less product or technology specialisation within the team. INSET: In the after market.

Electronics and IT industry body Intellect rounded on Great Britain Government last week for failing to encourage firms to do more R & D, as of December 17, 2003. Intellect was dismayed by the Government's plans to improve the effectiveness of the R & D tax credit scheme, which were outlined in the Chancellor's Pre-Budget report. Intellect said it was disappointed that the effective tax credit rate is still below what it calls the noise level of real incentive. Intellect campaigns director Tom Wills-Sandford said, "If British high-tech businesses are to be best placed to compete in the global economy then R &D tax credits must move closer to the industry's goal of an effective rate of 10 per cent." INSET: Pre-Budget Report outlined.

The article reports that according to Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA), the market for flat panel TVs will overtake CRT (cathode ray tube) TVs in value this year. Japan's largest consumer electronics manufacturer, Matsushita Corp., reckons flat panels will take 80 per cent of the market by value in 2005. Significantly, leading PC supplier Dell has recently introduced a 17in. LCD TV which combines a flat panel PC monitor and television tuner. Like many suppliers, Sharp is adding production capacity to meet the demand. The firm's new plant at Kameyama in Japan will produce large area panels for the LCD TV market.

Focuses on the challenges faced by passives and electromechanical component distributors in dealing with suppliers. Pressure from suppliers to support and design-in their products; Importance of design-in on distributors; Market for electromechanical components.

Discusses issues facing the British electronics industry as it recovers from the market downturn, focusing on the control of the supply chain. Power of the consumer over the supply chain; Relationship between the consumer and the supplier; Concern regarding the movement of manufacturing activity outside the region.

Focuses on the performance of broad-line distributors of electronic components in Great Britain. Mobile phone market; Level of consumer demand; Discussions on the growth of the industry.

The article focuses on the electronics technology and market changes in 2015.

In this article the author comments that electronics companies facing skill crisis is not as bad as they think.

In this article, the author shares his experience of traveling to Wales, where he discovered an electronics sector with aspirations for growth, cutting-edge university research and world-class companies. It mentions that the two-weeks Wales Festival of Innovation included exhibitions, seminars, and facility visits. Also mentions that semiconductor firm IQE PLC has patented the micro electromechanical system (MEMS) technology used in medical sensors.

The author discusses a national survey of salary levels in Great Britain's electronics industry, to be published by the periodical "Electronics Weekly" in May 2014, and the author says that the survey will enable various executives to compare their salary with the national average salary.

The article presents an interview with Steve Kelly, chief executive officer (CEO) of SmartKem Ltd. He describes whether optimism in the British economy is good for the electronics sector. He explains the biggest opportunity for the industry as a whole. He refers to the uncertainty of exactly what product/s OEMs and brands should invest in as the main threat to the flexible drive electronics industry.

The article reports that the target for chipset suppliers in 2011 is to enable one billion mobile phones with the new low-energy version of Bluetooth. According to Ibrahim Al-Rashdan from chip firm CSR, the cost of adding Low Energy Bluetooth is negligible, so by the end of the year there could be a billion handsets with it.

The article presents views of executives of electronics manufacturing services (EMS) companies, related to the prospects of the firms in 2011 in Great Britain. It mentions that the industry is optimistic about the financial performance of the industry in 2011, after the dark days of 2008 and 2009. It includes comments of a sales manager who believes that the upturn in the market is likely to continue in 2011, with further growth within the oil and gas, security and medical markets.

The article reports that leading catalogue distributors are taking different approaches to the market as they try to take away business from traditional broadline distributors. However, the four online and catalogue distributors, RS, Element14, Digi-Key Corp. and Mouser have their own ways for selling to manufacturer customers. Digi-Key and RS do small order sales with manufacturers but the other two do it by supplying manufacturers when a product moves from design to production.

The article reports that catalogues are increasingly relying on web communities and several electronic companies see catalogue as a good vertical marketing tool to extend their reach. Premier Farnell UK is rebranding its catalogue and online component distribution business as Element14 Ltd. Mark Larson president of Digi-Key Corp. recognizes the importance of online communities, but he thinks the market is changing more slowly than some people have suggested.

The article offers information on the enhancement in PC/104 Embedded Consortium of Sundance Inc. by using PCI Express high-speed bus to it.

The article presents information on global distributors in the electronic component market. Information on Avnet's acquisition of Memec LLC in 2005, and Arrow's move to purchase Nu Horizons, is discussed in detail. It is stated that broadliners use mergers to acquire product lines and design-support capability.

The article presents the author's views on the significance of the social networking Web site Twitter for engineers. He comments that if engineers focus on the right places, there is a lot for them on the Web site. He remarks that engineers will be happy using the Web site if a way of stopping WP database/traffic errors is found. He asserts that they can create their own universe with the Web site.

The article focuses on the chances of a double-dip recession for electronic component manufacturers in 2011. It states that bookings were ahead of billings among the electronic component distributors. According to the Association of Franchised Distributors of Electronic Components (AFDEC), compared to the previous month there was a 23.8% increase in billings. It reports that the distributors were looking for signs of sustainable long-term demand growth.

The article presents the views of several executives from the British electronics and high technology industry on what they expect from the new government. One executive says that it is important to see government policy for exchange rate. Another executive expects the government to support the technology development centres. Another executive wants the government to recognize the manufacturing industry's contribution to gross domestic product (GDP).

In this article the author discusses the importance of manufacturing skills in Great Britain and government initiatives in the area. He opines that development of skills in advance manufacturing sector is vital in economic recovery of the country. He adds, neither of the political parties in Great Britain have earlier believed in the importance of the engineering and manufacturing sectors.

The article presents information on indications for Great Britain to become a significant centre for the development of next generation plastic electronics technology. First Secretary of State Lord Peter Mandelson says a roadmap for the industry that takes it from cutting edge to mass market while keeping Great Britain firmly in front, is needed now. It is stated that as part of this strategy, Swansea University in Swansea, Wales, has become a centre of excellence for plastic electronics.

The article presents information on Great Britain-based PEI-Genesis Inc., a company which is assembling thousands of high-reliability connectors a week for the defence, aerospace and transport markets from its facility in Southampton. Doug Mercer, the PEI-Genesis's European marketing manager, said that the last year has been far from a tail of struggle and woe.

The article presents results of a survey of a panel of 20 managers in the distribution sector conducted by the journal "Electronics Weekly" in Sepember 2009. The survey has found that the 90% were more confident of business prospects than three months ago, which is a clear improvement on confidence levels in comparison to the June survey. 80% of the managers on the panel said they were no longer cutting inventory.

The article reports that there is rise in demand for consumer component chips, but demand for the industrial sector is slow. Toshiba is planning to increase its production levels for NAND flash chips in response to increased demand in the global mobile phone market. The European semiconductor distribution market show a 26% fall in revenues in the first three months of 2009.

The article offers news briefs related to the electronics supply chains. Acal Technology has been named pan-European distributor by Achronix Semiconductor. Bosch Sensortec has signed a global distribution agreement with Digi-Key Corp. for its MEMS-based acceleration and pressure sensors. Rutronik is introducing its STMicro-electronics franchise line in Great Britain.

The article presents some predictions for the electronic industries in 2009. Picocells will be used to extend mobile phone coverage indoors. EnOcean is one of a number of companies looking at using energy harvesting to create self-powered wireless devices such as sensors and remote controls. University of Oxford's Intelligent Sustainable Energy has invented an electricity meter for homes, which it claims can recognize which domestic appliance is operating at any time.

The article focuses on multiprocessor systems based on combinations of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and digital signal processors (DSPs). It specifically refers to 3L Diamond tool being used by DSP/FPGA board developer Sundance in its work on co-processor acceleration. At the heart of the Diamond tool suite is a multiprocessor model, developed by Edinburgh-based 3L Ltd.

The article discusses the business plan of U.S. component distributor Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. to bring light emitting diodes (LED) lines to Europe. Nu Horizons entered the European market through the acquisition of Great Britain-based DT Electronics. In the past two years, the distributor has expanded across Europe into Germany and into the eastern states, including Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic.

The article presents information on a Web site for electronics manufacturers, launched by the Manufacturing Diploma Development Partnership (MDDP). The group is also planning to launch the Diploma in Manufacturing and Product Design in schools from 2009. The Web site will feature case studies, videos, profiles and interactive sessions about manufacturing companies. According to developer Derek Jones, the Web site will encourage youngsters to have a carrier in the manufacturing industry.

The article reports on the importance of electronics manufacturing in Great Britain. It is reported that the decade-long decline of electronics manufacturing in the country has remained unchecked by numerous Government and cross-industry strategies to restate the importance of a viable manufacturing sector. According to one distributor, the number of people employed in electronics in the country has fallen from over 90,000 to around 40,000 in the past 10 years.

The article reports on the views of Xilinx Inc.'s new CEO Moshe Gavrielov on the future prospect of the field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) industry. Gavrielov stated that the FPGA industry is about to go through a significant transformation similar to the change which has taken place in the Asic industry over the last decade. Gavrielov also expects to see the FPGA company becoming much more of a system-on-chip technology provider.

The article informs that Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has aimed its West Bridge peripheral controller at applications that are looking to use lower cost multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash. According to Hervé Letourneur, product marketing manager at Cypress, the controller supports up to 16 MLC NAND flash devices and its attraction over single-level cell (SLC) NAND devices is that it can cost as much as a third of the price of SLC NAND flash devices at similar storage density.

The article reports that there is deep-seated scepticism among senior managers that a change of government in Great Britain will make no difference to the electronics industry. Some executives expressed concern over the impact of recent events such as Northern Rock and the child benefit disc loss on their confidence in the government's ability to manage the economy. Concerns focus on the tax environment which is still seen to be penalising smaller companies.

The article presents information related to the companies Air Semiconductor and Ubiquisys Ltd. It is informed that wireless start-up Air Semiconductor is in an expansion phase as it builds its semiconductor development team. It also informs about the company Ubiquisys, which provides the software for the femtocell. It is informed that Ubiquisys has been working with equipment firm Netgear Inc. to get a femtocell module added to broadband routers.

The article reports that RS Components Ltd. is widening its catalogue and online distribution business to enter the market as a supplier to small volume manufacturers. RS has recruited a new direct sales force which will operate across the country from regional offices. The move is part of the company's three year programme to restructure its electronics supply business.

The article reports that Cheng Yoe, managing director of Components Bureau Ltd., is confident that the industrial electronics sector has its quality controls in place to prevent a product recall. Referring to the recall of millions of children's toys manufactured in China, he said that the industrial sector doesn't have the same pressures on it as the fast-moving toy market. According to Yoe, there has been an over-reaction to the toy recall because of the emotive nature of the goods involved.