GEC-Marconi Radar and Defence Systems are using information from Technical Indexes to help keep their radar systems on track.
GEC-Marconi is the world’s first and oldest electronics company, having been originally founded in 1897 by Guilielmo Marconi. During its long history, the company has been responsible for the introduction and development of many of the technologies taken for granted today, including that of radar.
Guglielmo Marconi realised as early as 1916 that radio waves reflected by obstacles in their path could form the basis of a system for detecting ships at sea. It was not until 1935 however, that the principles of radar were conclusively demonstrated in the famous Daventry Experiment. This culminated in Chain Home, the world’s first operational radar network, which helped change the course of the Second World War.
Today the Radar Systems Division of GEC-Marconi Radar and Defence Systems, based at Chemsford, Essex, is one of the world’s leading suppliers of radar based surveillance and weapons control systems.
GEC-Marconi engineers use Technical Indexes Engineering Product Library (Electronic) to source new components as boards and chips in some older radars can sometimes become obsolete. When this occurs, engineers are faced with the prospect of searching for a new product to replace an out-of-date one.
GEC-Marconi Radar Systems Division Electronic Engineering Manager, Paul Cooper, said: "My engineers find ti’s Engineering Product Library very easy to use an invaluable reference tool. It’s CD-ROM format is much faster to use than scores of data books and product catalogues. We find it a great source of new components that helps us keep some of our older radar systems, which can be up to 25 years of age, operating."
For companies like GEC-Marconi, Technical Indexes Engineering Product Library (Electronic) is the ideal reference tool. Offering the most comprehensive collection of such data on the market, it contains over half-a-million scanned pages of catalogues form over 4,000 manufacturers and suppliers.
As an up-to the minute reference source of information it is unbeatable, enabling engineers to identify and source components, equipment and material suppliers and immediately view selected pages on their PC screen.
Operating in the familiar and easy to use windows environment, the Engineering Product Library is the most comprehensive collection of relevant full-text manufacturers’ catalogues and supplier information available with coverage including active and passive components, hardware, test and measuring equipment and power sources.
Technical Indexes is a cutting edge provider of comprehensive, technical data, standards, regulations, product and supplier information to commerce and industry world-wide. The only company of its type with ISO 9002 quality accreditation, more than 6,000 companies in the UK alone retain their competitive edge by referring to several million pages of vital information supplied by ti.
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11 September 1998
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