Mouser Shines Spotlight on SSL Lighting with Advanced PKC Training Site for Design Engineers

Mouser Shines Spotlight on SSL Lighting with Advanced PKC Training Site for Design Engineers

Sometime in your career, you have probably heard, “If we can land a man on the moon, why can’t we (fill in the blank)?” It’s a question that continues to engage engineers and companies looking to push the envelope of innovation.

The question is also one frequently heard in the halls of Mouser Electronics, a leading global distributor and engineering resource focused on delivering the newest semiconductors and electronic components for design. In addition to supplying What’s Next in the latest technologies, the company also believes it’s important to stock plenty of know-how for today’s design engineers. Mouser sees know-how as the ability to quickly apply knowledge to the development of new designs and prototypes.

Kevin Hess, Mouser Vice President of Technical Marketing, shares his perspective on the design process. “Design engineers may not always think in terms of part numbers when starting their design process. Instead, they start out researching new technologies and information they will need to know in addressing various system challenges before moving forward. To be truly educational and beneficial, a distributor’s website needs to be much more than a giant list of suppliers, products, and part numbers.”

Enter Mouser’s vast library of more than 2,200 PKCs, or Product Knowledge Centers, including the industry’s most advanced site on solid-state lighting. The new lighting site is completely designed to help design engineers find the latest lighting advancements, trends and supporting product information in as few clicks as possible. It complements Mouser’s broad line card, which includes OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Avago Technologies, Cree, Texas Instruments, ST Microelectronics, and Maxim Integrated Products, just to name a few. Visit the new graphic interface at www.mouser.com/lighting.

Mouser’s new Lighting PKC contains the latest enabling technologies from Cree, Maxim, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors and other innovators.

Mouser’s lighting PKC application training site is a comprehensive training center covering the full spectrum of light spanning three areas: products, applications, and technical resources. The Product Selector Guide is arranged in five main lighting categories with graphical interface to speed navigation. Engineers can quickly focus in on a set universe of products based on defined parameters/engineering standards based on their specific design needs.

Hess concludes, “Ultimately, we wanted to create a new lighting PKC interface that was intuitive enough for design engineers to navigate without having to experience any learning curve, allowing them to get in and get out with what they need even faster. At Mouser, we realize the one component that’s always in short supply is time, and that’s exactly what our newest PKC delivers — a quicker, more user-friendly lighting resource. It’s just another way we look to add value for our customers.” ■