September 1 ECIA Newsletter

Member of the Week: TDK-Lambda Americas

This week we honor TDK-Lambda as ECIA’s Member of the Week!

TDK-Lambda Americas Inc. represents the culmination of three well-established North American power manufacturers including Electronic Measurements Inc. (founded in 1945), Lambda Electronics (1948), and Innoveta Technologies (2001) and was acquired by TDK in 2008. They’ve earned the reputation of being a trusted world-class organization through a history of providing reliable and innovative power supplies. The company employs approximately 300 people, with engineering, manufacturing, and sales offices in California, New York, and Texas, including a 100,000 square-foot ISO-9001-certified manufacturing facility in Neptune, New Jersey. TDK-Lambda Americas provides sales support to Canada, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and South and Central America. TDK-Lambda Americas is one of the most trusted manufacturers of high-quality power supplies in the world.

The company has been a member of the association for 15 years!  Executive VP Sales & Marketing Tom Wichert and Director National Distribution Sales/Inside Sales Julie Fajardo are quite active on several committees. Tom was a member of the ECIA Board and the ECIA Foundation Board for many years and currently serves on the EDS Board and the ECIA Manufacturer Council. Julie and Tom both participate on the Executive Conference Planning and the Foundation’s E-Learning Committees. The company has supported ECIA meetings through attendance and sponsorships.

“Working with the committees and groups of ECIA does provide many benefits: helping to strengthen the electronic components industry we all enjoy; excellent networking framework (it's nice to have a seat at the table); and finally through the education foundation, a nice forum to give back to electronic components industry,” Tom Wichert, Executive VP Sales and Marketing said. 

We are indebted to TDK-Lambda Americas for their generosity and for making it possible for employees like Tom and Julie to take an active part in making the association better. Thank you to the whole team for your continued support! 

In addition to the ECIA technical committees developing and maintaining standards for many of our product categories, ECIA also works with a number of other Standards Development Organizations on projects of mutual interest. One such organization, JEDEC, develops standards for the microelectronics industry.

We would like to bring to your attention one of their recently revised and published standards. JESD31F General Requirements for Authorized Distributors of Commercial and Military Semiconductor Devices (August 2021) identifies the general requirements for Authorized Distributors that supply Commercial and Military products. 

This standard applies to all discrete semiconductors, integrated circuits and Hybrids, whether packaged or in wafer/die form, manufactured by all Manufacturers. 

The purpose of this standard is to establish the requirements for Distributors of Commercial and Military semiconductor devices who stock, process (value-added), kit or repackage product. JESD31F Annex A provides an Audit Checklist that may be used to verify conformance to this standard. 

The main content of the document is 26 pages. 

For more detail, contact Ed Mikoski, ECIA Vice President of Standards and Technology.