Industrial Electronics

Amplicon has added to its range of industrial Ethernet switches, the EDS-G500E series which is designed to provide Level 4 EMS protection and severe shock/vibration resistance. A novel thermal fin design is designed to reduce switch temperatures by 5°C. The EDS-G500E series offers various copper and fibre slot combinations with up to 16Gbit/s Ethernet ports to create a full-gigabit network ...

ON Semiconductor’s latets CMOS image sensors offer resolutions of 300k, 500k and 1.3Mpixels for general purpose industrial image sensing applications such as machine vision, security and surveillance. The CMOS sensor range, dubbed Python, allows the capture of fast moving scenes without distortion by combining a read noise of less than 9 e-, with 7.7 V/lux sensitivity and frame rates as high as 850 frames per second, says ...

Industrial market is good place to be right now. The global market for industrial semiconductors had a strong year in 2013 and revenues were significantly up from the previous year, according to a new report from IHS Technology. In Europe 13 countries figured among the top 20 global industrial electronics markets. Those nations included the likes of Germany, France, Switzerland, ...

The industry is hoping the UK’s industrial sector will return to growth in the first quarter of 2014. “Unfortunately whilst many other sectors of the UK economy (construction, services, automotive, aerospace) picked up in 2013 the industrial market is lagging,” said Adam Fletcher, chairman of the supply chain body, ecsn/afdec. “Extrapolating current data suggests that the industrial sector, which is ...

The global market for industrial semiconductors had a strong year in 2013 and revenues were significantly up from the previous year, according to a new report from IHS Technology. Global industrial electronics chip revenue $33.7bn in 2103 which was 11% up on 2012. Growth is predicted to continue and industrial related semiconductor revenue will reach some $45bn by 2018. “The market’s persuasive bounce-back is due to a strengthening global economy, ...

As the year 2013 draws to a close, we are seeing signs of optimism in the industrial markets in the UK compared to the same time last year, writes Peter Hannon, managing director of Harting UK. In fact, in the UK we have seen significant growth in 2013 from a mix of markets, which include transport, concert arenas and industrial automation as well as ...

Harting has developed an RFID antenna which can be used in identification systems in an industrial environment. The sMR20 RFID antenna provides defined read ranges as low as one metre, which allows items in close proximity to one another can be easily recognised and correctly assigned. The antenna operates over a wavelength range from 865MHz to 928MHz, and offers a degree of protection to ...

The rail traction and industrial market sectors are noted as extremely challenging environments in terms of electronic systems that are created to monitor the flow of electrical power within them. They demand the highest levels of reliability and performance, and both require that systems continue to operate in very aggressive environmental conditions. These sectors also need the highest levels of ...

Industrial IC revenue grew by 1% in Q1 to $7.7bn , says IHS. Q4 had seen a 3% decline year-on-year.

Altera has announced the availability of a fully verified EtherCAT (Ethernet for Control Automation Technology) protocol intellectual property for Altera FPGAs. This is a result of a collaboration between Altera and Softing Industrial Automation of Germany, for a licensing structure that is intended to give developers access to Industrial Ethernet protocols with “no upfront license fees, no per-unit royalty reporting ...