Electronic Specifier Insights

In our latest Electronic Specifier Insights podcast, we spoke to Jos Martin, Director Of Engineering - Cloud Integration and Parallel Computing at MathWorks about the application of AI

In our latest Electronic Specifier Insights podcast, we spoke to Robert Morton, Vice President, Sales, EMEA at NI about the company’s strategy and how it will benefit customers and distributors and progress so far.

In our latest Electronic Specifier Insights podcast, we spoke to Lee Ettleman, Director, Corporate Strategy and Corporate Development at Molex about the future of mobile phones

In our latest Electronic Specifier Insights podcast, we spoke to Paul van der Tang and Dan Attewell, respectively Purchasing Director and Technical Sales Director at Offshore Electronics about today’s market and how to manage the effects of chipageddon

In our latest Electronic Specifier Insights podcast, we spoke to Philippe Pichot, EMEA Distribution Sales Director for Tektronix about his company’s strategy for selling test and measurement products

In our latest Electronic Specifier Insights podcast, we spoke to Eric Pallares Co-founder & CTO at BCN3D Technologies about 3D printing

In our latest Electronic Specifier Insights podcast, we spoke to Manfred Mueller COO and General Manager of Identity Business Unit at Identiv about their launch of the new NFC Starter Kit

In our latest Electronic Specifier Insights podcast, we spoke to Melissa Ahmed Managing Director at Techwuman Ltd about the next generation of engineers and the work they do at Techwuman

In our latest Electronic Specifier Insights podcast, we spoke to Dr Catherine Ramsdale,Senior Vice President (Technology) at PragmatIC and James Myers , Distinguished Engineer at Arm about their launch of new NFC Starter Kit as use of NFC technology skyrockets

In our latest Electronic Specifier Insights podcast, we spoke to Mike Thompson, Senior Product Line Manager at Xilinx about their recent launch of Versal HBM

In our latest Electronic Specifier Insights podcast, we spoke to Juju Joyce, Product Marketing Manager at Lattice Semiconductor about their new product, Lattice CertusPro-NX General Purpose FPGAs

In our latest Electronic Specifier Insights podcast, we spoke to Paul Cain, Strategy Director at FlexEnable about flexible displays and optics.

In our latest Electronic Specifier Insights podcast, we spoke to Maria Heriz, Vice President EMEA & India Global Sales Operations at Tektronix about COVID-19 and the challenges it brought to the company

In our latest Electronic Specifier Insights podcast, we spoke to David Hall, Director of Marketing, Semiconductor & Electronics | Head of Semiconductor & Electronics Marketing at National Instruments about 6G

In our latest Electronic Specifier Insights podcast, we spoke to Bram De Muer, Co-Founder and CEO of ICsense about their in-house design and test programme

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks Marian Hoensch, Product Manager at EnOcean all about EnOcean IoT Connector.

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks Alex Deakin Business Development Manager for SIGA Electronics about the role of current transformers

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks Alan Marten Senior VP & General Manager at SMART Modular Technologies about the keys trends within the memory and storage sector

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks Ryan Ervin Vice President, Americas Region Sales and Workholding Product Management at Hardinge Inc about a number of trends in the semiconductor industry

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks Dr. Jack Potle at Oxford Medical Simulation about virtual reality in the medical industry and what OMS does as a company.

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks Joseph Notaro, Vice President - WW Automotive Strategy and Business Development at ON Semiconductor

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks Siyu Chai, Business Development Engineer--EMEA at Vicor Corporation

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks David Higham, Senior Principal Functional Safety Engineer at Imagination Technologies

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks Ellie Galanis, Product Owner at Paragraf

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks Roger Thornton, Director of Applications with Raspberry Pi

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks Eyal Zor, CEO of Airwayz

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks Jamie Lunn, Product Manager at Rohde & Schwarz

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks to Phillipp Skribanowitz, CEO of Mimi.

In this episode of the Electronic Specifier Insights podcast we speak to Philip Johnston, CEO, of Trackwise

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks to Emma Crichton C.Eng, Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and Head of Engineering at Engineers Without Borders UK (EWB UK)

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks to Scott Soong, CEO and Chairman at Pervasive Displays

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks to Don White, CEO of Satisfi Labs, and Charlie Greenwood, Founder of Sports Loft

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks to Alistair Fulton, General Manager & VP, Wireless (IoT/LoRa) & Sensing Business at Semtech

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks to Tabitha Upshaw, Head of Corporate Impact, and Shelley Gretlein, Vice President of Brand and Communications, Global Marketing at National Instruments

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks to Sam Bennett, NPI Project Manager at Harwin

Electronic Specifier Insights speaks to Mark Burr-Lonnon, Senior Vice President, EMEA, Asia and Global Service from Mouser Electronics

Electronic Specifier talks to Rob Rospedzihowski, President EMEA Sales for Farnell about investments getting close to fruition, inter-company co-operation and meeting customer expectations during a pandemic.

Women in Electronics is a community of progressive women leaders who are dedicated to the professional and personal leadership development of women in the fast-paced electronics industry.

In this episode, we speak to John Bowman, Marketing Director at Anglia Components, and David Pearson, Technical Director at Anglia Components about how COVID-19 is having the effect of accelerating designs especially in medical applications

electronica will take place digitally for the first time from November 9th to 12th, 2020. Find out what participants can expect from the virtual event, a four-day forum and conference program, and special events...

NXP Semiconductors has publicly launched its AI Ethics initiative, underscoring the company’s commitment to the ethical development of AI components and systems where people work and live, known as the ‘edge’ of computer networks

Electronic Specifier Insights host, Joe Busht speaks to Jack Herring, founder of Jiva Materials about the world's first fully recyclable printed circuit board (PCB).

The discovery, based on testing from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), proves that ‘unpackaged’ Hall Effect sensors can be used in high-radiation environments such as space. The project was funded by Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency.

Hello and welcome to this latest instalment of the Electronic Specifier Insights podcast about shaping the future of industrial designs with GaN technology

These minerals are sourced either from legal government controlled mines or from illegal operations, run by rebels who use enslaved labour – often children as young as eight years.These children are often forcibly taken from their homes by armed criminal gangs and set to work in dangerous conditions digging for tantalum, gold and other minerals. These children also have little or no intrinsic value to their captors and can often die with no record or accountability. At present the UK and EU have little or no substantial legislation in place to mitigate this process, unlike the US, which has the Frank Dodd legal framework, signed by President Obama in 2010.This podcast addresses these concerns and provides some momentum towards the realisation and implementation of substantial EU legislation in 2021.

When you consider the pace of acceleration in technology over the last century, I always wonder what some of the early pioneers would make of it today. Would Louis Pasteur look aghast at keyhole surgery? What would Alan Turing make of the processing power of the modern-day laptop? And what would Karl Benz make of today’s automobiles? His 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen, which is widely regarded as the first automobile, used the Benz 954cc single-cylinder four-stroke engine and was capable of 670W of power – equating to an eye watering 0.9bhp.A far cry from what rolls off today’s production lines, and a key part of that has been the growth in electronics technology within the car. Indeed, it is predicated that by 2030, 50% of the total cost of a car’s production will be its electronics.This podcast discusses the findings of the roundtable.

Since the start of the pandemic there has been a surge in remote work across companies around the globe. Executives have transitioned their staff to work remotely for an indefinite period of time. As a result video conferencing tools like Zoom, Skype, Google Meet and more have seen an increase in usage. With so much private data and visual content roaming through these platforms it’s imperative that we ensure they’re protected with the utmost security. Chris recommends companies take these proactive steps: Update to the latest and greatest – keep updates automaticDo not share a personal room with anyone but those you knowDo not allow automatic 'Join in'Always ensure that meetings are password-protectedDon't share meeting information on public platformsDisable file transfer features

In the past, remote working has posed a challenge for the manufacturing industry, with many of its tools and processes being rooted in old-fashioned workflows. The COVID-19 mitigation measures, which have led to vast swaths of the engineering workforce forced out of the factories and offices, have driven the need for a more flexible, distributed mode of operations.Computer-Aided Engineering and simulation tools can support this evolution, and MSC’s customer-centric move to flip their licensing model to allow for use in the home is proof in point.Roger Assaker, Chief Customer Engagement Officer of MSC Software, said: “We are adapting to the needs of our customers, and are also adding a helping hand to support their business continuity so they can continue to design, engineer and perform virtual testing outside their place of work. We are facilitating the access to our software, knowledge base and support to enable the creation of even more value with our tools, helping companies to maintain productivity and innovation when many manufacturing lines are down.

ITSA exists to provide a favourable operating environment for the benefit of the interconnect market and to provide a dynamic network for exploring and co-operating on mutually beneficial opportunities. Key to this success is the collation of key technology and market statistical data.At a gathering in London, John Biggs, Chairman of the association, and a selection of association members including LEMO, Harwin and Binder, explained the reasons behind the rebrand what ITSA can offer to its members as the voice of the industry.ITSA has a presence on several standards bodies where the aim is to influence both current and future changes to standards affecting the interconnection sector. These include the appropriate BSI standards committees as well as RoHS compliance and exemption groups like the Oko Institute and the RoHS umbrella group.Market conditions and dynamics are extremely important to companies and will affect their choice of markets served as well as how they go to those markets. The sharing of non-confidential data is an important part of ITSA’s mission and members consider this to be a very useful status check on their own experience.The association’s quarterly statistics and commentary provide members with accurate and prompt quarterly summaries on the status of the UK connector market. This allows members to compare their performance to that of their peer group.The statistics are also used to help assess the market annually. Members can use these assessments to review their own market development and strategy. Many members use ITSA’s accurate numbers to assess the quality of commercially available and expensive market reports.

In this period of uncertainty and even fear, it’s perhaps easy to get caught up in the myriad of negative headlines, and worst-case scenario outlooks. And not without good reason. Humanity is facing its greatest peace time crisis in several centuries. And when it’s all over, society as we know it is unlikely to ever be the quite the same, with a clear dividing timeline between BC (Before COVID-19), and AC (After COVID-19).However, always keen to look on the bright side of life here at Electronic Specifier, it’s here that technology is picking up the gauntlet. In the early responses to the outbreak in China, the country quickly leveraged the expertise of its strong technology, AI, and data sciences sectors, while its tech companies accelerated their healthcare initiatives. We should not forget that it’s not all doom and gloom and there are still some good news stories that need to be told. We all know that adversity breads innovation and technology is at the vanguard of the battle against COVID-19, whether it be using AI to help diagnose the virus, to deploying drones to deliver medical supplies, and this podcast aims to champion just some of those goodwill missions.Just this week Anglia Components has announced the formation of a COVID task force to coordinate and allocate available inventory and FAE resources to support customers designing or manufacturing ventilators and other vital medical equipment.Anglia CEO Steve Rawlins stressed that the company is doing everything they can to get the design and production of essential medical equipment ramped up as quickly as possible, giving NHS staff the tools that they need to save lives. In addition, Rawlins added that in order to make sure these enquiries receive high priority, the task force can direct Anglia’s FAE technical support and reserve any available inventory for these projects before an order is received – something the company would never do under normal circumstances.Listen to the full podcast below.