Newly launched engineering and supply chain services making it more accessible for engineers and innovators to create, make and manage technology of tomorrow

HONG KONG, CHINA - Media OutReach - March 20, 2019 - Global technology-solutions provider,Arrow Electronics announced at its annual "Arrow Technology Showcase" eventheld today in Shenzhen, China, the launch of engineering and supply chainservices designed to put best-in-class technological know-how and robustecosystem support into the hands of innovators and entrepreneurs in China'sGreater Bay Area, making it easier for them to create, make and managetechnology of tomorrow.

Simon Yu (centre), president of Arrow's Asia-Pacific components business, with Hong Kong, Taipei, Japan and South Korea team representatives at the robot boxing contest at the Arrow Technology Showcase 2019 in Shenzhen.

To support business growth of large enterprises and startups in the Greater Bay Area, Arrow has launched a range of new engineering and supply chain services covering design tools, proof-of-concept review, rapid prototyping, turnkey solution designservice, embedded software, cloud software integration, edge computing, sensingtechnology, advanced connectivity network, power management, data analytics,production and secure assets disposal. 

Greater Bay Area (a clusterof 11 cities with a combined population of over 69 million people and a GDP atUS$1.5 trillion in 2017) is expected to be the largest economy by 2020, amongsome global bay and metropolitan economic and technology centers such as NewYork City Metro Area, San Francisco Bay Area, and Tokyo Bay¹. Therecent development of innovation and technology in the Greater Bay Area wasannounced earlier this month by the Chinese government for constructing an internationalsci-tech and innovation center between Shenzhen and Hong Kong and another onebetween Zhuhai and Macau².

"The Greater Bay Area, risingto be among the top global technology and innovation power hubs, is home to tensof thousands of international as well as local technology startups and enterprises.  Everyday these entrepreneurs and innovators arecompeting for achieving technological advancements and racing to commercializetheir inventions at an unprecedented pace. As a global technology life-cycle solutionsprovider, we are committed to making our best-in-class engineering resources,technological expertise, and supply chain capabilities, and a vast globalnetwork of technology ecosystem partners more accessible than ever to help themsolve complex engineering problems, remove time-to-market barriers, and acceleratetheir idea-to-prototype-to-production journey, " said Simon Yu, president of Arrow'sAsia-Pacific components business.

1.    https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201806/07/WS5b18ca85a31001b82571eb22.html

2.     https://en.businesstimes.cn/articles/108757/20190306/china-looks-to-step-up-greater-bay-area-s-innovation-lead-with-international-center-construction.htm

During the event, Arrow,along with 100 of world's top technology suppliers and emerging technologystartups showcased a wide-range of innovative technology solutions and productsfrom artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and robotics, toedge computing and data analytics. 

Creating tomorrow'stechnology, today

Headquartered in Shenzhenwith branch offices in the US, Europe and Japan, Seeed Studio has beenpartnering with technology providers such as Arrow in empowering makers andcreators to bring their products to market via Arrow's ecommerce platform.  Seeed Studio offers a wide array of hardwareplatforms and sensor modules, customization and agile manufacturing services.  "We have been leveraging Arrow's engineeringand supply chain services as we build out a collaborative network that tapsinto the tremendous benefits of open source technology, crowd innovations, andagile manufacturing, which are crucial to driving technological breakthroughs,"said Eric Pan, CEO, Seeed Studio.   

Also on display at theevent was Nybble, a robotic cat built on open source platform.  An Arrow certified campaign on Indiegogo, Nybblesuccessfully achieved 270% of its campaign funding target.  The campaign is now at its final developmentstage, using Seeed Studio's fusion printed circuit board assembly and agile manufacturingservice.  

Since 2016, Arrow has been collaboratingwith Indiegogo to offer Arrow certification programs, providing campaignersaccess to design and engineering tools, personalized consultation to addressdesign challenges, and marketing and promotional support from Arrow andIndiegogo.

Making robots more intelligent

SyriusRobotics, a Shenzhen-based technology start-up alsoshowcased its Syrius autonomous mobile robot (AMR) at the event."There is significant innovative collaboration that went into the design of ourinvention - everything from advanced software and multi-sensor fusionalgorithms, a well-orchestrated set of sensors and actuators for goodhuman-machine interaction, powered by Nvidia's intelligent machine platform, toa robust framework for rapid delivery of sensor data and commands and areal-time operating system for safe operation," said Adam Jiang, founder ofSyrius Robotics. "As we scale and expand our business, we look forward topartnering with technology companies such as Arrow to enable us to tap intotheir global innovation ecosystem value chain for building next-generationautonomous machines."

OfferingNvidia's latest Jetson Xavier AI computer, Arrow connects global customers anddevelopers to the right technologies to enable transformative digital businessand to accelerate the development and deployment of AI solutions formanufacturing, logistics, smart cities and healthcare.

Managing technologyfor sustainability

Businesses today arefocused on how they can contribute to more sustainable cities as well asincreasing productivity. MoVertical Farm, aHong Kong-based aquaculture farm, uses IoT technologies and up-cycled shippingcontainers to create mobile vertical farming solutions. "We farm fish without apond and we grow vegetables without soil. We believe technology can help us revolutionize farming.  However, we need the necessary technologyand engineering solutions to achieve this goal. Arrow is a valuable go-totechnology partner to us as it provides us with the fundamental resources weneed to create what we have achieved today. Leveraging Arrow's engineeringand supply chain services, we are able to integrate these technology solutionsinto our sustainable and environmentally friendly aquafarming solution that alleviatesthe limitations of natural resources. This smashes physical barriers and climate constraints and increasesyields with better control and monitoring of the environment," said Arthur Lee,founder of MoVertical Farm.

About Arrow Electronics

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