RS
Components, the world’s largest distributor of electronics and maintenance
products today announced the opening of their innovation hub, a new ‘Electronic Centre’ in Bangalore. The high
service level supplier of electronic components and tools plans to invest close
to $ 15 million over the next two to five years at the Bangalore centre.
The new
2000 Sq feet office in the heart of Bangalore has been set up to support
electronic design engineers and manufacturers in the region. The compay also plans to set up a warehouse
which will enable RS Components to undertake
“next day delivery” to its customers.
The
Bangalore Centre will have technical marketing and support teams, specialized
sales force that will focus on specific industry verticals like IoT, Medical
Electronics, Aeronautics, Automotive and RnD sector.
Speaking
at the launch of the Electronic Centre, Keith Rice, Head of Emerging
Markets, RS Components Worldwide said, “Our Electronic Centre at Bangalore
is a great opportunity to bespeak RS’ strong value proposition in the light of
our technical expertise and tailor made solutions that create a huge difference
in the day-to-day life of a design engineer.”
Talking
about the potential of the Indian market and RS India’s growth Keith Rice
added, “RS envisages India as one of the most promising and high potential
markets. The pace at which the RS India story is accelerating will soon turn
out to be a significant advantage for them on a global landscape.”
Shiv Bhambri, CEO RS Components
India, further added, “The
Bangalore Electronic Centre is a reflection of the strong Indian ESDM market,
as well as the continued growth of the Indian operations of RS Components,
which has been a part of the electronics design and manufacturing story in
India for the past 20 years.”
Explaining
the reason for setting up such a large operation in the city Bhambri said,
“Bangalore has emerged as a major global EDSM hub and recognised as the RnD
capital of India. Most of the Global Industries and PSUs in strategic
electronics have their manufacturing facilities and R&D centres in
Karnataka. Therefore it was important for RS Components in India to further
expand it’s Electronics focused set-up in Bangalore.”
On the
role of the Bangalore office in supporting the local ESDM community, Bhambri said, “The Electronic Centre at Bangalore will be key to RS
Components goal of providing technical training and assistance to Design
engineers and students. The engagements with design engineers will
influence and drive our electronics business which is targeted for high double
digit growth in near future”
RS will
offer value added services to the design community in and around Bangalore including: Organizing workshops on new
technologies and solutions; Running
training programs for EDE and Academia Holding engineer meet ups; New
product launches in collaboration with suppliers, among others
The team at the Bangalore
office will also be actively involved in building up the design
engineering community through DesignSpark.com. DesignSpark provides its
community of over five lakh engineers with free access to design tools like
DesignSparkPCB, DesignSparkMechanical and DesignSparkElectrical.
RS
In India
Elaborating on RS Components unique value proposition to
Indian manufacturers Bhambri says,
“The key to our strategy is that we are a high-service level distributor. No
order is too small, as we believe in supporting every aspect of the business
from concept to preproduction. He
further says, “We offer our customers a choice over 500,000 products from
2500 leading brands along with technical datasheets to help them make an
informed buying decision.”
With e-commerce at the heart
of its business strategy, RS India has one of the most advanced transactional
website offering benefits like parametric search and around 5000 new product
introductions every month.
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