Earning global certification to ISO 14001 showcases our commitment to sustainability, energy efficiency, and waste reduction.

HOUSTON (PRWEB)
July 07, 2020

Smith, a global distributor of electronic components and semiconductors, today announces its certification to the ISO 14001 standard at its warehouse in Amsterdam. The ISO 14001 certification establishes an environmental management system to address potential risks and opportunities, as well as fulfill compliance requirements, as they relate to environmental concerns and initiatives.

Smith’s Houston headquarters and distribution center in Hong Kong achieved ISO 14001 certification in 2005 and 2010, respectively. The ISO 14001 standard outlines a systemic approach to planning, implementing, documenting, and evaluating the organization’s environmental management procedures. Achieving this certification in Amsterdam helps strengthen Smith’s global environmental practices and commitment to reducing waste, increasing efficiency, and improving overall impact to the environment.

“Smith’s customers can rest assured that their supply chain partner is dedicated to meeting their needs while simultaneously upholding international environmental standards,” said Art Figueroa, Smith’s Vice President of Operations and Quality, NA & EU. “Earning global certification to ISO 14001 showcases our commitment to sustainability, energy efficiency, and waste reduction.”

“Operating our business in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way is one of Smith’s top priorities,” said Figueroa. “As always, we will continue to develop and implement new, innovative processes to help us better protect and more positively impact our environment.”

About Smith

Founded in 1984, Smith sources, manages, and distributes the electronic components that go into everything from mobile phones and computers to appliances and directional drilling systems. In 16 cities around the world, Smith’s legion of employees communicates in 50 languages and dialects and buys and sells components 24 hours per day, with global annual sales in excess of $1.35 billion. Smith is always moving: helping manufacturers navigate market shifts; customizing supply chain solutions; testing components using cutting-edge technology. The support of Smith’s flexible Intelligent DistributionTM model optimizes customers’ supply chains from beginning to end, including offering customized options for IT asset disposition that deliver maximum ROI, sustainability, and security. Smith’s testing and logistics hubs in Houston, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam cover critical areas like quality management, counterfeit prevention, and environmental safety. Smith’s operations, purchasing, and sales worldwide are seamlessly integrated with the company’s global IT infrastructure, offering real-time, global inventory and logistics visibility. Smith is the leading independent distributor of electronic components and ranks number nine among all global distributors. For more information, please visit https://www.smithweb.com or reach out to a Smith representative any time of day at +1 713.430.3000.

###

Share article on social media or email:

FRAMINGHAM, Mass (PRWEB)
July 07, 2020

Sensors Expo & Conference, produced by Questex, announced today Sensors Innovation Week, a complimentary digital event series taking place July 16-17. Through a series of live video roundtables, tech talks, fireside chats, and keynotes featuring subject matter experts from top OEM companies and suppliers, attendees from all over the globe will be able to access top notch industry panels and education. In partnership with Fierce Electronics, the industry leading editorial team will be augmenting these digital events with a variety of featured content, special reports and breaking news across the site all week.

Quick Links:

• Free registration is available here.
• View the Agenda here.

“We’re excited to bring Sensors Innovation Week to attendees all over the world through these online events. We’ve brought together a top-notch speaker lineup featuring visionaries from Yole Développement, Valentium, Jetperch, Millibat, New York Power Authority, CNH Industrial, Halliburton, The Aerospace Corp. and more. This is a first of its kind event that is a must attend for engineers who are looking to get a competitive edge on all of the latest trends and technology applications that are impacting our industry and the world today,” noted Karen Field, Head of Content for Fierce Electronics and Sensors Expo & Conference, at Questex.

With topics ranging from “How Innovative Sensing Technology is Helping to Combat a Pandemic,” to “You’ve Got the Power, Use it Wisely to Create Energy-Efficient Sensor Designs,” to “IoT & Wireless: Hey Network, It’s Me, Sensor!,” and “AI and Machine Learning: Making Sense out of Sensor Data,” attendees will access one-of-a-kind content addressing the latest sensing challenges and innovative design approaches. In addition to these sessions, sponsors will also be highlighting their latest offerings and solutions in technical and interactive Tech Talk sessions. Sponsors to date include ams AG, Bluetooth, CommScope, Infineon, Omron, and STMicroelectronics. If you are interested in speaking or sponsoring, click here for more information.

“Bluetooth is excited to continue our partnership with Sensors Expo & Conference by participating in the first Sensors Innovation Week. The virtual event’s ability to reach a global audience of engineers with our latest solutions for IoT & Connectivity is an opportunity we wanted to capitalize on,” says Jim Katsandres, Director, Developer Relations at Bluetooth.

Registration is free for all attendees, and speakers and sponsors will continue to be added in the coming weeks. Stay up-to-date on the latest announcements with the hashtag #SensorsInnovationWeek. Additional virtual events are planned throughout the year, including Embedded Innovation Week on September 28-October 1, MedTech Innovation Week on October 19-22, and AutonomousTech Innovation Week on December 14-17. To learn more, visit here.

About Sensors Expo & Conference and Fierce Electronics

Sensors Expo & Conference, produced and managed by Questex, is one of the world’s largest and most important gatherings of engineers and scientists involved in the development and deployment of sensor systems. For more information, visit http://www.sensorsexpo.com. Sensors Expo & Conference is supported by the event’s official publication, Fierce Electronics, the primary news and information source for design engineers and engineering management, covering the business and technology aspects related to the entire electronics industry; focusing on sensors, embedded systems, power management, analog, components, and IoT. For more information, visit http://www.fierceelectronics.com.

About Questex

Questex helps people live better and longer. Questex brings people together in the markets that help people live better: travel, hospitality and wellness; the industries that help people live longer: life science and healthcare; and the technologies that enable and fuel these new experiences. We live in the experience economy – connecting our ecosystem through live events, surrounded by data insights and digital communities. We deliver experience and real results. It happens here. For more information, visit http://www.questex.com.

Share article on social media or email:

Our latest batch of features is hyper-focused on security integrations that not only prioritize the role and work of security professionals, but also enhance the level of collaboration happening across tech teams.

SEATTLE (PRWEB)
July 07, 2020

Refactr, the DevSecOps automation platform enabling organizations through their next shift to IT-as-Code, announced today the immediate release of new integrations and capabilities. The new features focus primarily on security tools in response to a lag in automation solutions for security processes. So far, automation solutions are largely directed at engineering teams, but security teams benefit from DevOps methodologies around culture and automation, too.

“Today’s remote work environment is accelerating demand for software-defined everything. As a result, we have more cloud-based vulnerabilities. Now, there is a greater urgency to make security a priority in the production process,” said Mike Fraser, CEO of Refactr. “Our latest batch of features is hyper-focused on security integrations that not only prioritize the role and work of security professionals, but also enhance the level of collaboration happening across tech teams.”

New integrations and capabilities:

• 
  CIS-CAT Assessor: The Center for Internet Security’s (CIS’s) CIS-CAT® configuration assessment tool can now be added directly to pipelines, enabling powerful remote scanning and reporting functionality. Both the Lite and Pro versions are supported.
• OpenSCAP: Built-in support for this industry-standard, open source compliance assessment tool enables users to quickly add compliance scanning and automated report generation to their pipelines.
• Kubectl: Deeper integration with the Kubernetes CLI allows users to easily authenticate, deploy apps, and perform management operations on their Kubernetes clusters.
• Self-hosted runner agent: With the beta release of Refactr’s self-hosted runner agents, users can now execute pipeline runs on custom infrastructure or inside their own private networks. This addition opens the door to much more powerful pipelines that may require additional tools, resources, or privileged access.

“Integrating CIS-CAT with the Refactr platform increases our reach to teams eager to merge processes between engineering and security,” said Curtis Dukes, CIS Executive Vice President of Security Best Practices. “The more security becomes a part of the development process, the straighter an organization’s security posture becomes. We’re thrilled to be partnering with Refactr on realizing our common goal to automate security in our connected world.”

Refactr is helping all tech teams design and deliver complex, secure cloud infrastructure and applications through its all-in-one, visual automation platform. The DevSecOps automation platform currently integrates with AWS Cloud Formation, Azure Resource Manager, Git, Google Deployment Manager, Hashicorp Terraform, Kubernetes API, Node, Powershell, Python and Shell Scripts, Red Hat Ansible, OpenSCAP, and CIS-CAT.

Currently in contract with the United States Air Force AFWERX Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 20.1 Phase 1, Refactr is helping customers like the Air Force and Fortinet to deploy virtual machines to Azure, deploy Kubernetes EKS clusters on AWS, and use Burpsuite to run web application security tests against a running web server. Refactr is currently pursuing a SBIR Phase 2 contract from the United States Air Force and raising its seed round.

About Refactr

Refactr is a Seattle-based DevSecOps startup founded in 2017 by military veteran and industry experts in cloud and cybersecurity. Its mission is to accelerate adoption of DevSecOps methodologies among security and DevOps teams. Refactr provides a simple and collaborative automation platform that enables tech teams to visually design and run modern, software-defined IT-as-Code solutions including infrastructure, configuration, integrations and security. Technology changes, people adapt. Refactr innovates to make the world more agile through the next shift of digital transformation into IT-as-Code. Learn more at https://refactr.it

About CIS

The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments through our core competencies of collaboration and innovation. We are a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Controls® and CIS Benchmarks™, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data. We lead a global community of IT professionals to continuously evolve these standards and provide products and services to proactively safeguard against emerging threats. Our CIS Hardened Images® provide secure, on-demand, scalable computing environments in the cloud. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (MS-ISAC®), the trusted resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial government entities, and the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (EI-ISAC®), which supports the rapidly changing cybersecurity needs of U.S. elections offices. To learn more, visit https://CISecurity.org or follow us on Twitter: @CISecurity.

Share article on social media or email:

Showcase Your Designs and Win

“Altium has amazing customers who are literally changing the world with their innovative products,” said Ted Pawela, Chief Operating Officer of Altium

SAN DIEGO (PRWEB)
July 02, 2020

Altium is launching an exciting new contest this summer, open to engineers, students, inventors, and companies. The contest will allow PCB designers from all industries and experience levels an opportunity to show off their design work and a chance to be featured on Altium’s popular Altium Stories YouTube channel.

The Altium Stories YouTube channel, launched in late 2019, features short videos showcasing innovative projects designed by Altium users. In mere months the channel has grown to nearly 6500 subscribers and individual videos have received as many as 35,000 views.

The #MyAltiumStories contest gives viewers the unique opportunity to have their own designs featured alongside industry luminaries Arduino, Houston Mechatronics and Piano Arc. Contest winners will also be eligible to win Altium Designer licenses, official Altium-branded merchandise and more.

The contest is just as exciting for Altium, as it gives the company another way to connect with the PCB design community. As Masha Petrova, Vice President of Brand Marketing at Altium, elaborates, “Altium users are more than just customers to us—they’re vital to our success as well as the advancement of future technologies. The #MyAltiumStories contest is a great way for anyone who loves PCB design to show off their creations while inspiring peers and future generations of designers.”

Informative videos showcasing current projects using Altium PCB software tools may be submitted through August 31, 2020.

For detailed contest rules and requirements, please visit: https://resources.altium.com/p/showcase-your-designs-and-win.

ABOUT ALTIUM

Altium LLC (ASX: ALU), a global software company headquartered in San Diego, Calif., is accelerating the pace of innovation through electronics. From individual inventors to multinational corporations, more PCB designers and engineers choose Altium software to design and realize electronics-based products.

The growing demand for smart and connected products is driving advancements in electronics technology. Design trends are demonstrating the need for minimizing power, reducing package size and energy consumption, and prioritizing high-speed design. For over 30 years, Altium has been delivering software that maximizes the productivity of PCB designers and electrical engineers, from idea to board. Users are at the center of Altium’s R&D and business operations. With its unique Business-to-User approach, Altium is focused on developing software that is easy to use and implement, with solutions that enable innovation and deliver industry-leading user productivity.

Contact:

Masha V. Petrova

pr@altium.com

Share article on social media or email:

Tripp Lite’s 9×2 Multi-Format Presentation Matrix Switch with Audio Extractor, model B300-9X2-4K, connects up to nine audio/video sources, such as computers, media players and cable boxes, with one or two HDMI displays and provides the ability to control the content shown on each screen.

CHICAGO (PRWEB)
July 06, 2020

Tripp Lite, a global manufacturer of power protection and connectivity solutions, makes it easy to manage content from multiple video sources in a variety of settings, including boardrooms, classrooms and home theaters.

Tripp Lite’s 9×2 Multi-Format Presentation Matrix Switch with Audio Extractor, model B300-9X2-4K, connects up to nine audio/video sources, such as computers, media players and cable boxes, with one or two HDMI displays and provides the ability to control the content shown on each screen. A preview feature shows the content from all the sources at the same time, allowing identification of each source’s content.

Six HDMI inputs and a DisplayPort input support video resolutions up to 4096 x 2160 (4K x 2K). VGA + Audio and Component/Composite inputs support video resolutions up to 1080p. Users can easily switch between connected video sources using the front-panel buttons, the included IR remote or an RS-232 serial controller. A built-in KVM switch allows control of one or two connected computers using a keyboard and mouse. Two USB ports accept peripherals, such as flash drives.

“Matrix switches are a convenient way to ensure a seamless viewing experience for audiences during multimedia lectures and corporate trainings,” said David Posner, Vice President of Product Marketing, Connectivity. “Tripp Lite’s 9×2 Multi-Format Presentation Matrix Switch is a flexible, versatile solution for consolidating control of analog and 4K digital video sources and viewing the same or different content on two displays. The switch saves the time and hassle of reconfiguring source connections to displays every time content from a different device is needed.”

Key Features of Tripp Lite’s Presentation Matrix Switch

• Consolidates management of up to nine video sources
• Provides user-friendly switching between sources
• Supports the same or different content on two HDMI displays
• Features three display modes: matrix, mirror and picture-in-picture
• Allows control of one or two computers with built-in KVM switch
• Supports sending stereo sound to speakers or amplifiers

See Tripp Lite’s full line of digital signage and audio/video solutions at tripplite.com.

Share on Linked In

Share on Facebook

Share on Twitter

Share article on social media or email:

Philaflex™ Military M3432 CO Cable Line

SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif. (PRWEB)
July 06, 2020

Philaflex™, the Ultimate M3432 CO Military Flexible Cable by Philatron. As one of the top manufacturing experts of M3432 cables, Philatron continues to be a market leader for CO military cables.

M3432 CO Cables are of great importance to the military for portable field generator power and control cables. While these cables need to be highly durable with great flexibility, it is alarming that most current M3432 cables are not that durable and flexible. And none of them are flame retardant – a highly important feature that all military cables should have!

When working in tight spaces under time pressure – especially with large size cables of 1/0 AWG or larger – flexibility means everything! The new ground breaking Philaflex™ material is engineered to provide a superior great solution. This material allows the M3432 electric cable conductor’s insulation and cable jacketing to be more flexible than any other standard M3432 cable available today.    Philaflex™ also solves cold weather conditions that cause cables to become ridged. And of added importance unlike other M3432 cables Philaflex™ M3432 cable is flame retardant.

Veteran Phil Ramos, Jr., CEO and Owner of Philatron, stated, “This new Philaflex™ material is lighter with more flexibility, but also provides higher temperature rating of conductor’s insulation that prevents degradation by excessive heat. This is important in hot regions like the Middle East deserts where it is common for M3432 cables to blow up and burn due to high heat.”

Philaflex™ M3432 CO cable exceeds requirements of MIL-DTL-3432 military specification with a temperature rating of +105⁰C to -65⁰C and is fire retardant.

Philatron provides you with USA made quality cables that you can trust.

About Philatron Wire and Cable

A leader in technology, creativity and innovation, Philatron Wire and Cable is a major wire and cable provider in the USA, manufacturing a full range of wire and cable products. As an industry leader in manufacturing, design, development, technology, and marketing, with over 40 years of service Philatron values core competencies offering copper drawing, roping, cabling, extrusion, injection molding, coiling and assembly. Markets served: Aerospace, Auto/Heavy Duty Trucking, Electrical, Entertainment, Medical, Military, Mining, OEM, Oil & Gas, Transportation, and Utility/Power. Certified ISO/IATF 16949 (Quality Program) & SDVOSB (Veteran Owned Business)

Visit us at: Philatron.com

For additional information contact:

Tammy Ashton

Vice President – Sales and Marketing

tashton(at)philatron(dot)com – 562 802.2570 / 800.967.9147

Share article on social media or email: