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   We are pleased to welcome eleven new member companies this quarter. We hope your company is a member. To learn about the benefits of membership, please visit our web site www.psma.com.
  
 
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Chang Sung Corporation
Gwang-Bo Choi
11-9, Namdong Industrial Area
Namdong-Ku, Incheon, Korea
E-mail: cgbcg@hanmail.net
Web site: www.changsung.com



Chang Sung Corporation

Established in 1980 as a specialist in the field of metal powders, Chang Sung Corp has worked hard to be an important leader in the functional material industry.

With a steadfast spirit to overcome challenges and pursue innovation, Chang Sung has developed unrivaled technologies and maintained a strong competitiveness in the field of metal powders, soft magnetic cores, clad metals and conductive pastes.

In the 21st century, Chang Sung Corp is focusing even more on developing future magnetic, conductive and EMC functional materials that meet the needs of all their customers. Their goal is to provide total solutions in the field of functional materials from the design phase to the final product.

All the members of Chang Sung are committed to the company motto, "Think more, decide firmly and act rapidly." They promise to continue to strive to be a responsible and diligent global leader through the endless pursuit of technology and innovation and with the vital support of their customers.

Above all, Chang Sung Corporation is committed to pursuing happiness for both customers and members.


 


Coil Winding Specialist, Inc.
James Lau
353 W. Grove Avenue
Orange, CA 92865
E-mail: jlau@coilws.com



CWS

Coil Winding Specialist or CWS started as a design center for custom inductors, chokes, coils and transformers in the early 1980s in California. Its original objective was to provide custom designs for engineers in need of inductive and transformer products in a hurry. In order to meet this objective, CWS has developed over a thousand standard off the shelf inductors, coils and transformers that can be purchased using our secure on-line ordering through our web site. Each product category has its own online ordering where engineers and buyer can order samples and small production items quickly and conveniently.

CWS is the only direct manufacturer in the industry that provides on-line ordering of magnetic parts, inductors, coils and transformers.

CWS provides full service from design, prototyping, and pre-production run to volume production. Their engineers have combined more than 40 years of experience in designing and manufacturing of magnetic components from medical to military applications. These inductor, choke, coil, and transformer are designed with laminations, tape would cores, amorphous cores, nanocrystalline cores, ferrite cores, iron powder cores, MPP cores, sendust or high flux cores in all shapes and sizes.

Designs, prototyping and pre-productions of inductors, chokes and transformers are done at their facility in Orange, California. Volume productions are done at their ISO 9001 manufacturing facility in China to reduce cost. With prototyping and pre-productions done in Orange, CA we can offer our customer the fastest delivery where lead times are extremely important. Typical delivery from design to pre-production is ranging from 2 days to 2 weeks.

CWS's team of experts can help you with your entire coil winding, inductor, choke, coil and transformer designing needs. They will wind anything per your requirements and have the capabilities to verify your designs, test your ideas and concepts, as well as build your magnetic products to your specifications.

 


Electronic Concepts, Inc.
Shirley Yuen
526 Industrial Way West
Eatontown, NJ 07724
E-mail: syuen@ecicaps.com
Web site: www.ecicaps.com

 


Electronic Concepts, Inc.

Since its incorporation in June of 1969, Electronic Concepts has grown to be a recognized and respected name in the electronic component industry, focusing on specialty film capacitors made of various dielectrics. Through engineering innovation and expertise, production flexibility and service; Electronic Concepts has become a major supplier in high technology fields of Avionics, Medical Electronics, General Instrumentation, Telecommunications, and many others.

A major factor in the growth and success of Electronic Concepts has been their leadership role in the area of new and emerging technologies and their ability to address the changing needs of the industry. This effort is evidenced by their many patents and innovative products.

Electronic Concepts' innovative capacitor design capability offers the flexibility to meet customers' most demanding film capacitor requirement. As a vertically integrated capacitor manufacturer, they offer prototype and custom manufacturing, as well as a diverse spectrum of standard product lines ranging from small chip size capacitors to large building blocks. Electronic Concepts is extremely flexible with the ability to produce dielectric, produce stamped or machined terminals, fabricate enclosures in plastic or metals, perform unique testing and develop and build its own production and testing equipment.

In order to provide swift and comprehensive worldwide service, Electronic Concepts has two manufacturing facilities. Their US Headquarters consists of 100,000 square feet in Eatontown, New Jersey USA, established in 1969. Their European Headquarters is located in a 30,000 square foot facility in Galway Ireland, established in 1982 and additional facilities in Lee, Massachusetts.
In order to support continuing technical advances, Electronic Concepts employs a staff of engineers whose combined film capacitor experience is in excess of 100 years. These talented engineers, in addition to keeping abreast of industry trends, are in frequent contact with customers to address their current, specific requirements.


 


Dr. Prasad Enjeti
Texas A&M University
301F Wisenbaker Engineering Research Center
3128 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3128
E-mail: enjeti@tamu.edu

 


Dr. Prasad Enjeti is the Associate Department Head, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Texas A&M University.

He was the recipient of the IEEE-IAS Second & third best paper award in 1993, 1998, 1999, 2001 & 1996 respectively; second best IEEE-IA transaction paper published in mid-year 1994 to mid-year 1995 and, IEEE-IAS Magazine Prize Article Award in the year 1996. In year 2000, he was elected to Fellow grade by the IEEE Fellow Committee for "Contributions to solutions of utility interface problems in power electronic systems and harmonic mitigation". He is inaugural recipient of the R. David Middlebrook Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society, 2012.

In addition to his regular graduate and undergraduate teaching, he along with his students and colleagues has taught 25 different technical short courses, has published well over 100 conference papers, 86 journal papers, and seven book chapters. His research emphasis on industry based issues has attracted significant funding. So far, 26 PhD and 41 MS students have graduated under his supervision and have spring boarded into key leadership positions.

He is the lead developer of the Power Electronics / Power Quality & Fuel Cell Power Conditioning Laboratories at Texas A&M University and is actively involved in many projects with industries while engaged in teaching, research and consulting in the area of power electronics, motor drives. He holds four US patent and has licensed two new technologies to the industry so far.

 


Excelitas Technologies
Andrew Stelmack
1100 Vanguard Blvd
Miamisburg, OH 45342
E-mail: andrew.stelmack@excelitas.com
Web site: www.excelitas.com



Excelitas Technologies is a global technology leader focused on delivering innovative, customized solutions to meet the lighting, detection and other high-performance technology needs of OEM customers. From medical lighting to analytical instrumentation, clinical diagnostics, industrial, safety and security, and aerospace and defense applications, Excelitas Technologies is committed to enabling customers' success in their specialty end-markets.

Excelitas

Excelitas Technologies has been delivering high-performance optoelectronics solutions to OEMs worldwide for many years. Excelitas Technologies was previously a business unit of PerkinElmer, and is now owned by Veritas Capital. The company was founded by MIT professor Harold Edgerton, a pioneer in high-speed photography and his partners, Kenneth Germeshausen, a pioneer in high energy switching devices and Herbert Grier, a leader in the field of nuclear testing. The founders' legacy was grounded in high-performance technology solutions and pioneering innovations and that is carried into Excelitas Technologies today.

Excelitas Technologies has approximately 3,000 employees in North America, Europe and Asia, serving customers across the world. The mission of Excelitas Technologies is to provide innovative, customized opto-electronic solutions to OEMs seeking high-performance, market-driven technologies. Excelitas' core values - Integrity, Customer Focus, Continuous Improvement, Teamwork, and Organizational Agility - are the foundations that guide all of their actions.


 


Fastech Synergy Inc.
Rene I. Dela Cruz
Ampere St cor West Road, Light Industry and Science Park 1
Bgy. Malitlit
Cabuyao, Laguna 4025
Philippines
E-mail: ridelacruz@fastech.com.ph
Web site: www.fastechsynergy.com

 


Established in 1983, Fastech provides turnkey sub-con manufacturing assembly, test and tune, product development and drop shipment services for OEM semiconductor and RF/ microwave manufacturers in Europe, US and Asia. They offer total solutions on assembly, packaging and testing for power discrete components, micro-packages and IC semiconductor components. Fastech is also a leading provider of turnkey manufacturing services for a full range of RF/ microwave components and modules. Fastech maintains state-of the-art manufacturing facilities in the Philippines. They are positioned to meet the high demand for semiconductor and microwave manufacturing services for applications in the field of computers, telecommunications, consumer and automotive products.

Fastech

Fastech aims to provide total manufacturing solutions to its clients through flexible and cost-competitive services. They continue to develop and improve processes and product enhancements to better serve the various needs of clients. Fastech acknowledges the unique requirement of each client by offering services particular to the client's specification and needs. They work with the customer to reduce costs and share the savings.

For Fastech, quality is everyone's responsibility. Fastech consciously endeavors to raise its quality level higher than the standards. They employ tight measures to ensure the quality of products and processes. Total customer satisfaction is the goal of every employee.


 


GE Lighting
Xuefei Xie
1800 Cailun Road, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park
Pudong
Shanghai 201203
China
E-mail: xuefei.xie@ge.com
Web site: www.gelighting.com/na/

 
GE Lighting

GE Lighting is the professional division of General Electric specializing in lighting solutions all around the world. GE Lighting will lead a global lighting revolution to deliver innovative solutions that change the way people light and think about their world.

GE ChinaGE was born from the invention of the world's first affordable incandescent lamp. More than a century later, GE Lighting still brings light to the world, helping advance new technologies such as fluorescents and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that operate with more efficiency, less cost and less environmental impact than ever before.
GE energy smart® CFLs and LEDs are part of the role GE Lighting plays in ecomagination. Ecomagination is GE's commitment to imagine and build innovative solutions to today's environmental challenges while driving economic growth.

The GE China Technology Center (CTC), located at the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Shanghai, is a multidisciplinary research center conducting leading edge research, engineering development, and sourcing for GE's diverse businesses across the world. The focus of the center is to create market-leading innovations and products for GE businesses.
The CTC is an integral part of GE Global Research and one of four such multidisciplinary research facilities within GE. At CTC, scientists, researchers, and engineers work in virtual teams with their counterparts worldwide, in areas like power electronics, real-time/power controls, advanced manufacturing technologies, process sensing & control, medical imaging technologies, materials science, chemical sciences, and materials characterization/analysis.


 


Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
John Wiggenhorn
79 Great Oaks Blvd
San Jose, CA 95123
E-mail: john.wiggenhorn@monolithicpower.com
Web site: www.monolithicpower.com

 


Monolithic Power Systems (MPS) is a high performance analog semiconductor company headquartered in San Jose, California. Formed in 1997, the company has three core strengths; deep system-level and applications knowledge, strong analog design expertise, and an innovative proprietary process technology. These combined advantages enable MPS to deliver highly integrated monolithic products that offer energy efficient, cost-effective solutions.

MPS

MPS' systems and applications expertise stems from a team of industry veterans who possess a combination of highly-technical electronics knowledge, sophisticated system and IC level design capabilities and extensive customer application experience. This allows the company to work closely with customers to identify new product opportunities, reduce time-to-market and effectively support its applications. In addition, MPS has developed a portfolio of intellectual property and proprietary wafer fabrication processes that enhance its products and market share. MPS design teams hail from distinguished analog semiconductor companies and top universities with extensive experience per designer. The teams have brought many innovative product suites to market and helped increase the company's annual revenue by an average of 28% between 2004 and 2009. These talented individuals, coupled with MPS' technology advantages, have created an emerging leader in the future of analog technology.

MPS' proprietary BCD Plus™ process technology is key to its competitive advantage. MPS' BCD Plus process technology integrates BiCMOS signal transistors with a highly efficient DMOS power transistor. This allows MPS to design and deliver smaller, single-chip power management ICs that are highly efficient and accurate. In addition, MPS' single process technology simplifies the design process, and is applicable across a wide range of analog applications. The result is higher productivity and significant cost advantages for any MPS customer.

MPS employs over 900 employees worldwide, located in the United States, China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Singapore and across Europe.

 


Renco Electronics, Inc.
Edward W. Rensing
595 International Place
Rockledge, FL 32955
E-mail: ewrensing@rencousa.com
Web site: www.rencousa.com

 


Renco Electronics provides an impressive array of transformers and inductors, including surface mount through hole and chassis mount. New product designs of at least one new product every quarter are also part of our capability. Renco now produces transformers and coils specifically designed for use in semiconductors, telecommunications, computers, instrumentation, industrial controls, medical equipment, and consumer products.

Renco Electronics

Renco's components are designed into thousands of products including, but not limited to: cappuccino and coffee makers, parts for backup generators in the space station, mass flow meters for food and beverage makers, and LED lighting.

Renco can build to print, work in conjunction with your engineering team, or completely custom design inductors or transformers to your exact specifications. They will build from 10 pieces to 10 million pieces. Automated low cost, high volume production lines give Renco the ability to produce over 5,000 parts per line, per day. Their extensive manufacturing capabilities in North America and China include everything from high speed winding machines to programmable work station robots.

Renco controls everything down to the final test to insure uniformity & unsurpassed reliability.


 


Rhombus Energy Solutions
Scott Stromenger
13230 Evening Creek Dr. Ste. 205
San Diego, CA 92128
E-mail: scott@thombusenergy.com
Web site: www.rhombusenergy.com

 


Rhombus Energy Solutions designs and develops premium power management, power conversion, and energy storage control systems. Rhombus products efficiently manage the varied power sources and demands in intelligent micro-grid electrical systems which require several key elements including energy storage, integration of power sources, load-leveling, grid-tie management, and energy conversion between different voltages and currents.

Rhombus

Rhombus's mission is to help solve the world's future energy challenge, by designing and deploying the most innovative and efficient power conversion and control solutions. While doing this they are committed to creating value for all stakeholders (customers, employees and shareholders).

The team at Rhombus designs and develops premium power management, power conversion & energy storage control systems and provides engineering services that can help you bring your design to life.
Rhombus Engineering Services consists of a group of expert engineers that can help you bring your design to life. They have experience in several disciplines of engineering including Mechanical, Electrical & Software. Rhombus also has System Engineering services to provide a complete end-to-end integration.


 


United Silicon Carbide Inc
Guy Moxey
7 Deer Park Drive
Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852
E-mail: gmoxey@unitedsic.com
Web site: www.unitedsic.com

 


United Silicon Carbide, Inc. is devoted to the development of SiC power devices, offering the highest quality, state of the art products and customer service to our partners. Their innovations enable higher efficiency energy transmission, power supplies, and motor controls to a world that needs them now more than ever.

USCi technology and products enable affordable power efficiency in key markets that will drive the new and greener economy. These include:

USCi chart
  • Wind and solar power generation
  • Electrification of transportation such as automobiles and next generation trains
  • Emerging Smartgrid technologies that are adding intelligence to our power grid
  • Higher efficiency power generation and conversion
  • Motor control
  • And numerous other applications that require higher efficiency, compact designs, and demanding thermal constraints
USCi

USCi technology and products are uniquely positioned to leverage the lower cost of outsourced manufacturing capabilities in silicon carbide substrates, epitaxy, and foundries for production device fabrication. This dynamic is what continues to fuel the growth of Digital and Analog IC's and the time is now for Silicon Carbide (SiC). This advancement for SiC will create lower cost of goods, better continuity of supply, and improved quality for these demanding markets.


 


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