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"Farnell provides an excellent service for early engagement and small quantity needs of customers via its high service stock and delivery model for ADI products."
Gernot Faigel
"By focusing on electronic design engineers, maintenance and repair engineers and purchasing professionals, as well as providing the support services that offer real benefit to customers, Farnell provide an excellent channel for Hammond's products."
Russell Irvine
"Farnell are experts at marketing and promoting Electronic products for the engineering community. This therefore gives Panasonic access into the minds of these engineers and provides an excellent channel for promoting our latest Panasonic products."
Richard Dines
"As a manufacturer, who is orientated to service our customer through all stages of their project cycle, it is important for us that the design engineering community is kept up to date which new products and technologies Würth Elektronik has to offer. Farnell is providing herewith an excellent spotlight for all design engineers"
Lars Fahrbach Distribution Manager
About us
With over 70 years making a difference in the electronics industry, Farnell is the leading multi-channel high service distributor supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals across Europe.
With over 450,000 products from 3,500 industry leading suppliers, our portfolio continues to expand ensuring we bring you the very latest technologies first.
At Farnell, our customers are at the heart of everything we do and with a wide range of ordering options available, we aim to ensure we meet every customer's needs, making it as easy as possible for you to do business.
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Quick guide to our services
Easy Ordering
Find the products you need fast
Use our parametric and advanced search functionality to locate products:
- Simple flexible search options
- Easily compare features of multiple products
- Advice on thousands of alternative items
Simple Ordering
- Instantly upload orders to your shopping basket with the 'Quick Paste' tool
- For repeat orders, simply enter the order code into the 'Quick Buy' tool
- Returning customers benefit from our 'express check out' feature
- Real-time price and stock information available online
- Delivered with peace of mind
- We'll email you to confirm receipt of order and when your order is despatched
- Schedule your products and invoices for delivery when you want
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Solutions Microsites
An area providing you with easy access to the latest technology
Visit the Solutions microsites to have easy access to a wealth of information on to how best integrate new technologies into your design for a more advanced solution. Hot products, online product training and video demonstrations on new products from over 3,500 suppliers for a wide range of applications.
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Latest Technology
Make sure you have always the latest technology embedded in your design
- The latest and greatest technologies, with you tomorrow.
- Over 100 new products added online every day.
- Direct relationships with industry-leading manufacturers means that Farnell provide access to the very latest technology first, with no minimum order requirement.
- We actively source innovative niche manufacturers to provide choice and competitive advantage.
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Enhanced Technical Support
The free service that helps you design with confidence
- 24 hour Support.
If you need help or have technical questions get instant answers from our global team of certified Support engineers. Find out more
- FREE BoM Conversion Service.
Upload your Bill of Materials and we'll convert your manufacturer or competitor parts list to match our product portfolio within 48 hours! Find out more.
- FREE Product Watch Service.
Provides you with advance warning when a product is going to become obsolete. Find out more.
Industry Leading Product Linecard
The selection of the right product couldn't be easier
Our product range at Farnell provides you with access to more than 3,500 leading brands from around the globe, that's over 450,000 products available for fast delivery across Europe.
Our direct relationships with industry leading manufacturers also gives you access to the very latest technology first, with no minimum order requirement.
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Authentic Products
Guaranteed from the manufacturers
Farnell only ever buy products from the original manufacturer or franchised distributors, thus ensuring the authenticity of the product. Farnell will never source products from the so called 'grey market', so you can be sure the product is an 'original'
Rapid advances in digital electronics enable the development of ever more sophisticated electronic devices, but lead to an obsolescence headache for manufacturers. Semiconductor producers move on to supplying new designs and cease production of the older ones.
Exclusive Best Value Brands
Low prices, high quality
We offer over 40,000 products from our very own best value ranges to offer low priced alternatives that don't compromise on quality. Farnell offer of six exclusive brands that offer exceptional quality at value prices in key commodity areas including Cabling, Tools, Test Equipment and commonly used components.
View our best value brands:
Flexible Packaging Solutions
Choose the product packaging most suitable for your needs
When ordering components you have a wide range of flexible packaging options to choose from:
- Moisture Sensitive Packaging
- Free Re-reeling Service
- Full Reels
- Continuous Strip
- Peel Packaging - Unique to Farnell
- New Biodegradable ESD packaging - Unique to Farnell
- Manufacturer Waffle Trays
- Full Quantity Tubes
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Legislation
A dedicated electronics legislation website available to you
- Understand what every design engineer needs to know about environmental legislation and be aware of all the latest developments.
- Leadership role in the original RoHS legislation
- Expert advice and information on RoHS and WEEE recast, China RoHS, REACH, Energy related Products
- (ErP) and Batteries Directives
- Gary Nevison, Head of Legislation appointed to a UK government body - the Electronics Regulatory Group
- Latest legislation information for design engineers available at www.element14.com/legislation
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 Community
Join the first technology portal and e-community for design engineers
Launched in June 2009, element14 offers the first online community specifically for engineers– from electronic design all the way through maintenance and repair. The community is a place where engineers and electronic enthusiasts:
- Connect with other engineers and experts on new ideas, challenges and questions.
- Find impartial, independent knowledge on technical issues.
- Access information, answers and tools gathered from a range of sources.
- And, find inspiration in the latest innovations.
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The element14 knode
Your source for engineering knowledge and electronic design solutions
The element14 knode is a full life-cycle electronics design flow solution that helps engineers design faster, better, cheaper.
It provides a single interface to a world of design solutions where technology decisions made by the engineer create explicit dependencies and inter-relationships with other system level components.
It helps engineers quickly research, identify and buy the solutions they need.
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EAGLE Software v6
The Award Winning CAD software for PCB
EAGLE offers user-friendly, powerful and affordable solutions for PCB design, including three modules embedded in a single user interface: Schematic Capture, Board Layout and Autorouter, which means you don't have to convert netlists between schematics and layouts.
Why EAGLE software?
- Real value and no hidden costs
- Convenient update policy without maintenance fees or costly add-ons
- Free service support through dedicated experts
- Open and innovative optimisation process that allows users to input its program development
- Smart 'Follow me Router' which saves time during the manual routing process
- Now with access to Farnell's parts information EAGLE's new DesignLink capability streamlines your workflow process by allowing you instant access to over 500,000 orderable parts without leaving the CAD environment.
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