Avnet Abacus, one of Europe's leading power, interconnect, passive, and electromechanical distributors is teaming up with some of the world's leading manufacturers of power components to deliver a series of free technical seminars in five locations across Europe focused on the difficult challenges that face power system design engineers. In the one-day sessions, Avnet Abacus and its franchises Aimtec, Cymbet, Emerson, Enpiron, Excelsys, Murata Power Solutions, Power Integrations, and Schaffner will provide an overview of environmental and energy efficient directives impacting power supply design. Explains Cor van Dam, Avnet Abacus' European Marketing Director: "Efficient use of power is a challenge that affects everyone. There are many issues: new mandatory regulations will require standby (no-load) energy consumption to approach Zero watts; consumers demands that battery-powered devices have a long life between recharging; and LED lighting systems must be powered correctly or the benefits are wasted. Our seminar series will address these topics and many more, and we encourage design engineers to raise their own specific areas of interest during the extensive Q&A sessions with technical representatives from the participating companies." There will also be tabletop presentations from leading manufacturers of associated power products including Molex, Pulse and TE Connectivity. The seminars are scheduled for: Paris - 4th October, Novotel Charenton Milan - 12th October, Avnet Abacus office Stuttgart - 20th October, Avnet Abacus office Munich - 25th October, Avnet Abacus office Newbury - 3rd November, Avnet Abacus office Design engineers are invited to register for the free seminars by visiting www.avnet.abacus.eu/poweror call +44-1628 512940. About Avnet Abacus Avnet Abacus is a pan-European demand creation distributor specialising in interconnect, passive, electromechanical, power supply and battery products. Avnet Abacus' extensive product range and exceptional linecard is supported by a team of over 50 product specialists based across Europe, delivering technical expertise and technology focused initiatives. Avnet Abacus is a business unit of Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA, a business region of Avnet, Inc., (NYSE: AVT) About Avnet, Inc. Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and embedded technology serving customers in more than 70 countries worldwide. Avnet accelerates its partners' success by connecting the world's leading technology suppliers with a broad base of more than 100,000 customers by providing cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended July 3, 2010, Avnet generated revenue of $19.16 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com
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