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RS Components And Fairchild Semiconductor Enter Collaboration Singapore: RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents, a distributor of electronics and maintenance products, and Fairchild Semiconductor, a supplier of high performance power and mobile semiconductor solutions, have collaborated to create a set of complete reference designs for seven of Fairchild’s most popular evaluation boards. The collaboration between Fairchild and RS marks a milestone in the industry’s adoption of the open source hardware style. Through this collaboration, the
DesignSpark community of over 200,000 users has access to accurate and credible technical information from Fairchild, enabling faster design times. Consisting of full circuit schematics and PCB layouts in the industry’s standard DesignSpark PCB format, these evaluation boards are now readily accessible to every engineer for insertion as ready-made blocks — with full Bill Of Materials (BOM), prepopulated with ordering data-directly into their electronics designs.
Efacec Wins Contract With Carlsberg-Associated Brewery, Unicer Singapore: Efacec, a supplier of automated material handling solutions, has won a project to construct fullyautomated logistics facilities for Portuguese brewery Unicer, part of the Carlsberg group of companies. Valued at 15.5 million euros (US$21.3 million), the turnkey project involves the implementation of the company’s integrated solutions in several zones of Unicer’s distribution centre in Leca do Balio, Portugal. A key highlight of this project is in the customised design of the automated system, which raises productivity and affords cost savings for the Portuguese brewery. “This is one of our most relevant orders to date, and it incorporates a variety of components to form a comprehensive solution for the customer,” said João Oliveira e Sousa, MD, Efacec (Singapore). The large-scale project, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2014, is divided into several zones. This Efacec solution presents Unicer with a system that offers integration and coordination of all the
The customised design of the automated system raises productivity and affords cost savings for the Portuguese brewery.
post-production processes, from the production zone to the shipping area. With a high level of automation in every zone, processing errors are minimised while an improvement in productivity, efficiency, and a greater control of processes are achieved.
Emerson Adds Express Delivery Of Process Instruments Singapore: Continuing its investment and long term commitment to helping Asia Pacific customers improve plant maintenance, repair and automation operations, Emerson Process Management has shortened delivery time for standard process instruments under its Asia Pacific customer care program. The program, named ‘On Demand,’ is based on customer feedback that calls for stronger customer-supplier partnering. In response, the company invested in decreasing lead times on its instruments to address the most frequent and urgent customer problems. Standard Rosemount, Micro Motion and Rosemount Analytical instruments are offered with On Demand delivery to meet critical customer request dates. Delivery for the service is offered in China, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. When an order for the products is placed with the local sales office, customers will be offered delivery for the service. An online order tracking service has been put in place to enable customers to check the status of their orders. The program will be extended to more countries in Asia as it expands.
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