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RS Components is sending Professor Lucy Rogers PhD out into the world on a solo DesignSpark podcast mission, ‘The Engineering Edge’.

This month, I had the pleasure of speaking with Pete Malpas, Managing Director, Northern Europe (UK, Ireland & Scandinavia) at RS Components about the company’s five-year strategic plan and why they are so enthusiastic when it comes to STEM.

RS Components has made available a new Guardmaster smart device for the Allen-Bradley GuardLink system from Rockwell Automation, which is designed to enhance safety and increase machine- and plant-wide efficiency.

RS Components has launched Imagine-X, an initiative to help promote STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects by providing free teacher resources to help pupils realise the potential of STEM and their imaginations.

RS Components has extended its industrial connector portfolio with two new solutions from Harting, including the recently launched Han 1A connector.

RS Components has garnered the ‘Best High Service Distributor’ from Omron Electronic Components Europe, a subsidiary of Omron Corporation.

RS Components announced it is shipping the latest version of the MakerBot 3D printer – the MakerBot Method – which has been designed to bridge the gap between industrial and desktop 3D printing.

RS Components announced availability of the new MekaMon Berserker v2 robot, developed by Reach Robotics. MekaMon is not only the world’s first gaming robot, but is also ideal for robotics engineers and hobbyists, and for a wide range of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) students from those still in the early stages of school, up to those studying engineering at university.