About Us
Headquartered in Mansfield, Massachusetts USA, Murata Power Solutions is a market leading supplier of DC-DC converters, AC-DC power supplies, magnetics, digital panel meters, and data acquisition components, with 6 engineering design centers and 8 manufacturing facilities and partners worldwide.

Murata Power Solutions was established in September 2007 when Murata Manufacturing Corporation acquired the Power Electronics Division of C&D Technologies.  The acquisition of C&D’s power division actually brought with it the comprehensive offering of products and capabilities from market leading companies previously acquired by C&D, including:

• Datel, a USA-based leader in medium to high wattage DC/DC converters as well as digital panel meters and data acquisition components.
• Newport Components Ltd, a UK-based market leader of low wattage DC/DC converters and magnetics.
• UK-based Celab, with over 30 years’ experience designing and manufacturing rugged power supplies for harsh and demanding environments in defense, CATV, and industrial applications.
• Power Systems Division of Celestica Inc., providing expertise in AC/DC power supplies for high-end computing and communications OEMs.

Our Products
The company’s DC-DC converter product line includes a complete range of high performance isolated board mount power and non-isolated point-of-loads as well as non-isolated converters for processor and memory applications. Standard and custom AC-DC products include high efficiency and high power density front end modules for distributed power architectures and industry standard open frame, u-channel, and CompactPCI power solutions. Murata Power Solutions also offers a broad range of magnetics for power line filtering, isolation, and EMC applications including inductors, common-mode chokes, and pulse and current sense transformers. For more than 35 years, the Datel offering of digital panel meters has been recognized as the industry’s most versatile and well-designed meters for a variety of applications. In addition to a data acquisition product line of A/D converters, image processors, and sample-hold amplifiers, Murata Power Solutions also offers modified standard and custom products to meet the applications requirements of imaging, medical, scientific, and other high-reliability industries.

Murata Power Solutions maintains active memberships in various industry organizations as part of its continued commitment to providing customers with innovative quality products. Memberships include DOSA (Distributed-power Open Standards Alliance), PSMA (Power Sources Manufacturers Association), EPSMA (European Power Supply Manufacturers Association) and CSCI (Climate Savers Computing Initiative).

Today, various technologies are requiring energy efficient systems and higher performance in a smaller package. Murata Power Solutions meets and exceeds industry standard efficiency specifications for both AC-DC and DC-DC power. Using fully integrated component structures, low profile packaging, and fast response topologies, Murata Power Solutions offers a wide range of functionality and power-dense products.

Murata Power Solutions has a global focus on meeting customer requirements. With exceptional global sourcing, supply chain management, and logistics, Murata Power Solutions offers a higher operational proposition to meet the total procurement needs of today’s customers.

Provided by John Sutherby,
Director of Marketing Communications,
Murata Power solutions

Venable Instruments is an industry leader offering a broad range of tools for design/testing of feedback control loops and impedance measurements. Venable produces frequency response analyzers, injection transformers, analysis software for gain/phase plotting and design tools to synthesize stable loop compensation. Loop design application includes analog and digital power supplies, motion control, PFC, and inverters. Impedance measurement applications include discrete components, source/load impedance, batteries, and distributed power.

Venable specializes in the design and manufacture of high performance instrument systems that can be created and implemented in a cost-effective manner. High quality software is critical to the ease of use and look and feel of an instrument. Venable manages the entire instrument design cycle, from finalizing the design specifications, to driving the development and manufacturing process. Our experience and history ensures a fast, effective, and efficient process.

Venable was incorporated in 1979. The company, founded by H. Dean Venable, initially sold power controls for automatic and robotic welding. Shortly thereafter, the company began marketing frequency response analyzers for measuring stability margins of feedback control systems. The new product dramatically simplified the design task of stabilizing control loops. Software was developed to provide capability for modeling and testing in the same system, so that theoretical and actual results could be compared. Automatic compensation for feedback loops and other advanced analysis features were pioneered by Venable.

The system being offered provides the engineer with the maximum functionality and versatility available in the industry today. The Venable product offering includes five frequency response analyzers based on the number of channels, frequency range (up to 35MHz) and input isolation. The two major options:

Input/Output Impedance Measurement Set

RLC Measurement Set

These measurement sets are available to the design engineer and set the Venable product offerings apart as unique, along with our proprietary K-Factor based software for loop stability analysis and optimization. All of Venable instruments have pc interfaces based on the industry standard IEEE-488 protocol. By relying on acknowledged and accepted standards for instrument interface protocol Venable has teamed up with industry leaders who have recently made the IEEE-488 interface to be available in USB form factor. 

Venable's PowerAssay™ proprietary software based upon the industry recognized K-Factor algorithm is unique to the industry. Venable software has unequaled power and versatility for engineers that want to not only stabilize their control loops, but to achieve a truly optimum design. Our instruments and software eliminates the trial and error approach and allows engineers to simulate the feedback loop based on previously measured transfer functions, thereby providing a faster path to product design and greatly reduces time to market.

PowerAssay™ software is compatible with all Microsoft™ operating systems including Windows 7™ and can interface with your email client, export to other engineering software packages, as well as saving graphics data files to jpg format for easy file sharing and report generation.

Venable offers leasing of new equipment with conversion to ownership, and also rentals for those short term requirements where there is no capital funding available.  Engineering services are also available for power electronics design and laboratory facilities available for customer product testing.

Venable Instruments has consistently provided innovative and competitive products designed to meet the needs of our customers and the marketplace. We offer a wide array of testing instruments and engineering services from our facilities in Austin, Texas. Our company is guided by the simple principle: We understand that our customers are the most important people in our business. We invite you to visit Venable on the Web at www.venable.biz.

Provided by Donald Woodard,
President, Venable Corporation

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