Nuts & Volts - January 2006

storage components, and sensors

• Energy storage components including magnetics, capacitors, batteries and chargers

• Mechanical components including connectors, bus bars, substrates, thermal management

• Physical design and packaging topics including thermal management, integration of design tools, physical design, packaging, EMI, and EMC

double the size of its existing facility, according to Mouser Electronics President and CEO, Glenn Smith. "We started planning the addition to the facility as soon as we saw that we needed it," he said. "By the time we had the planning and all the approvals in place, we had already grown to the next level."

The addition will add more than 229,000 SF of space to the existing

building. More than 52,000 SF of new office space will accommodate offices, conference and meeting facilities, an expanded customer service call center, and a new data center. The data center will connect to multiple power sources and to three dedicated fiber communications lines to ensure uninterrupted Internet operations, a core component of Mouser's global sales operation. NV

• Modeling, simulation and control of power supplies, electric machines and drives, power systems

• Business issues such as marketing, manufacturing, quality, test, power electronics business issues, DFx, standards, and regulations

For more information, editors are invited to contact: Kevin Parmenter, APEC 2006 Publicity Chair, Fairchild Semiconductor, 480-633-5678; Kevin.parmenter@fairchildsemi.com

MOUSER ELECTRONICS BREAKS GROUND ON NEW FACILITY

Electronics Distributor Plans 402,000 SF Headquarters/ Warehouse Building

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the fastest growing electronics distributor in the industry, has broken ground on a 229,000 SF expansion of their 173,000 SF Mansfield, TX headquarters facility.

A privately-held company, Mouser Electronics is the fastest growing electronics distributor in North America. A sign of the company's aggressive focus on customer service, Mouser is the only catalog distributor of electronic components to publish a new 1,600+ page print catalog every 90 days. The company's online store at www.mouser.com now offers more than 550,000 products, as well.