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Stay informed with RS Components news, covering innovations in industrial and electronic components distribution. Electronics Weekly highlights RS Components’ role in providing essential parts and tools for engineers, with a focus on rapid delivery, technical support, and comprehensive product offerings. As a global leader in the distribution of electronic and automation components, RS Components continues to expand its services, offering solutions that drive product development in sectors like manufacturing, automotive, and telecommunications. Their extensive catalog helps engineers access critical components for projects worldwide.

RS Group half-way to 2030 ESG goals

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RS Group’s 2024/25 ESG Report shows significant progress against its 2030 ESG action plan For a Better World. Now at the halfway mark, RS continues to embed sustainability at the core of its strategy and operations. RS Group has refined the four global ESG goals to reflect its evolving priorities and the changing sustainability landscape. Encompassing 14 ambitions, the four ...

Distrelec adds Better World product range

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 Distrelec, a trading brand of RS Group plc, a global provider of product and service solutions for industrial customers, is proud to introduce its new Better World product range. Initially launched by RS Group in the U.K. in March 2023, the Better World product range is designed to simplify the procurement process for engineers, innovators, procurement professionals, and problem solvers ...

RS extends Washing Machine partnership

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RS has extended its partnership with The Washing Machine Project (TWMP) for another year. TWMP  aims to alleviate the burden of washing clothes for thousands of remote, displaced and low-income families and communities. Around 60% of the world’s population hand washes clothes, which can be a time-consuming and arduous task that poses a major barrier for low-income and displaced people ...

Weller application-specific soldering kits

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RS is stocking five kits of hand soldering and re-work components aimed at different applications, such as micro-soldering and de-soldering larger components. They collect together units selected from Weller’s WXsmart soldering component range. All the kit part numbers are of the form T005345x699, and all of the kits include get Weller’s ‘WXsmart Station’ controller, a soldering iron, a stand for ...

Distrelec adds KPS test and measurement instruments

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Distrelec, a trading brand of RS, is to distribute KPS test and measurement instruments for sale throughout Europe. KPS provides professional installers, electricians and technicians with products and solutions. The Distrelec portfolio now includes a new DCM clamp meter that is manufactured in Europe. The DCM3000 is a versatile clamp meter ideal for a wide range of electrical applications, including ...

RS expands industrial automation product range

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Parts distributor RS has added 4,000 products aimed at industrial automation to its ‘RS Pro’ branded protfolio, on top of the 15,000 industrial automation Pro products it already has. New products include sensors, enclosures, relays, switches, connectors, DIN rail terminal blocks, pushbuttons, panel meters, bearings and seals. “We are seeing automation being deployed in more and more industries to handle a ...

Getting v6 of Designspark Mechanical to look like v5

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The recent compulsory update to RS’ DesignSpark Mechanical version 6, does not look like version 5 and some features have been moved or deleted. Don’t get me wrong here: I a satisfied user of DSM. It is a great tool, whose existing function seems to have been somewhat compromised while adding some powerful new features. Bearing in mind I don’t ...

RS adds cloud-based circuit simulation to DesignSpark tool suite

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Distributor RS has added a circuit simulator to its DesignSpark tools. The browser-based tool is rebadged PartQuest Explore from Siemens. “In partnership with Siemen’s PartQuest Explore team, all DesignSpark members, regardless of their subscription option, will have access to the DesignSpark Circuit Simulator tool,” according to RS. It “provides an environment for design, modelling, simulating and analying electronic and mechatronic ...

RS to distribute parts from CUI Devices

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CUI Devices has signed a distribution agreement with RS Components. As a part of the agreement, RS Components will distribute and market CUI Devices’ portfolio, including audio, interconnect and thermal management products. “This partnership with RS Components strengthens CUI Devices’ commitment to expanding support and product availability to customers in Europe and Asia,” said CUI v-p of sales Steve Mathis. ...