In today’s rapidly evolving industrial and power electronics landscape, manufacturers face increasing pressure to enhance reliability, extend product lifetimes, and ensure stable performance under harsher operating conditions. Systems such as motor controls, power supplies, inverters, battery management units, HVAC control modules, and industrial sensors are exposed to sustained heat, humidity, vibration, and corrosive environments.

Sustainability is a team effort – but how do you take the first step? From developing customized assessment methods to integrating them into financial reporting: Discover how Henkel tackles the challenge and makes sustainable progress measurable.

Human flourishing depends on three things: water, food, and energy – and their affordable access. The last element of this nexus, energy, is also central to the efficient sourcing, development, and distribution of the other two.

Henkel has announced that it has received a prestigious Schneider Electric Sustainability Impact Award based on its demonstrated sustainability leadership in its operations over the last year. Entrants were evaluated on several metrics, including their energy and digital automation solutions, energy use reductions, operational efficiency, and embracing circularity across the value chain.

The Solid State Transformer (SST) has been gaining tremendous attention, both in academia and industry, promising extraordinary (often hyped) power conversion performances, well beyond the current state of the art converters. Despite well-evidenced efforts, SST as a technology is still somewhat struggling to gain commercial traction and find its place on the market.

Henkel has announced the commercialization of Loctite Stycast CC 8555, a conformal coating designed to protect electronics in extreme environments. This addition to the company’s conformal coating portfolio delivers printed circuit board (PCB) and sensitive component protection in challenging, high-power applications such as motor drives, PLCs, EV charging infrastructure, AC/DC power supplies, and other high-voltage electronics.

Alternative energy adoption continues to enjoy steady growth globally. According to some analysts, solar system installations may see more than a 50 % increase this year, topping out at over 350 GW by the end of 2023.

Thanks to recent advances in the printed circuit board and relay technology, it’s possible to run high currents and switches directly on the printed circuit board in many applications.

MIT engineers demonstrated a new type of magnetic transistor that performs the three-in-one action of current switching, amplification, and memory storage. The industry is continuously seeking silicon alternatives to enhance the operability and efficiency of end-products.

The ACPL-736J is a high precision, optically isolated sigma delta modulator certified to reinforced isolation up to a maximum transient overvoltage of 8000Vpk, maximum working insulation voltage of 1414Vpk per IEC/EN 60747-5-5 and 5000Vrms isolation voltage per UL1577 certification. The optical isolation barrier is immune to electromagnetic interference and capable to withstand common mode transients for reliable and accurate shunt based current measurements in industrial applications.