RS Components opens a new Electronic Centre in Bangalore

RS Components has 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 2,000-sq. ft. office in the heart of Bangalore has been set up to support electronic design engineers and manufacturers in the region. The company 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 R&D sector.

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.”

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.”

RS will offer value-added services to the design community in and around Bangalore including organizing workshops on new technologies and solutions, running training programmes 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.