News & Analysis

With third-quarter revenue of EUR 133 million, Kontron AG has continued the current financial year's steady growth. Growth recorded was 15 percent compared with both the previous quarter and the prior year period (EUR 116 million in each case). Revenue amounted to EUR 347 million for the first nine months of the financial year, compared with EUR 333 million in the same period last year. This corresponds to growth of 4 percent. The increase is hig...

EnOcean GmbH has appointed Andreas Schneider, Executive VP and Co-founder of EnOcean, to the board of management, with effect from 1 October 1 2010, the start of the new business year. As Chief Marketing Officer he will assume responsibility for sales, marketing and product management. Together with Markus Brehler, who as CEO will focus increasingly on corporate strategy, and Uwe Thumm, who is as CFO responsible for business management, Schneider...

Leading test equipment rental company Livingston, in association with infrared camera manufacturer FLIR Systems, is to stage a workshop on the use of advanced thermal imaging within the building industry.

Electronica 2010 will see the launch of the new Powerstax TVS1001 rugged up-converter designed for use in military tactical vehicle systems for operations in remote locations and non-tactical vehicle security systems.

At electronica Swissbit will present its industrial DRAM memory modules in all popular technologies and the Flash products consisting of CF, SD, USB, PATA and SATA interfaces. One of the highlights is the F-100 Series CFAST™ Flash Storage Card. This 1” SDD (Solid State Drive) combines the original CompactFlash (CF) card form factor with a Serial ATA (sATA) interface. It is equipped with a reliable single level Cell Flash memory. This first ge...

See how a leader in wind power uses NI LabVIEW graphical software and user-defined hardware to develop highly reliable, state-of-the art wind turbines.

UK Microelectronics Packaging Society (IMAPS-UK) is pleased to announce details its forthcoming “Making MEMS Work – BIG Ideas For Small Devices” Technical Seminar & Industry Networking Event being held at The Institute of System Level Integration (iSLI) in Edinburgh on 02 December 2010.

An innovative miniature driver that can be retrofitted to a stepper motor's rear flange has been introduced by Astrosyn International Technology. This elegant device frees up space usually taken by conventional drive systems - it also reduces cabling.

Wilson Process Systems has recently appointed Nigel Starkey as Purchasing Manager. Starkey’s first task has been to restructure the internal purchasing team and implement systems to manage the supply chain network to ensure that despite the challenging market conditions which have led to some component lead times moving out, WPS will always seek to have sufficient inventory to fulfil its customers’ requirements for assembled PCBs on time.

Molex Incorporated will use its interactive blog site, Connector.com, to broadcast real-time news and views to the connector industry from electronica 2010, the world's leading electronics trade show.