Delta Electronics

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Delta Electronics, Inc.
Public
Industry Electronics
Founded 1971; 53 years ago (1971)
Founder Bruce Cheng
Headquarters Neihu District, Taipei City, Taiwan
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Yancey Hai
(Chairman)
Mark Ko
(Vice Chairman)
Ping Cheng
(CEO)
Johnson Lee
(President and COO)
Products Power electronics
(embedded power supplies, mobile power supplies, electronics components for ICT equipment, fans and thermal management)
Energy management
(industrial automation, telecom power systems, mission critical infrastructure, renewable energy, automotive electronics & EV charging)
Smart green life
(networking systems, display & visualization, LED lighting, healthcare devices)
Revenue US$7.52 billion (2014)[1]
Website www.deltaww.com
File:Delta Taipei.jpg
Delta Electronics headquarters in Neihu District, Taipei City, Taiwan.



Delta Electronics, Inc. (Chinese: 台達電子工業股份有限公司) is a Power Electronics and Energy Management manufacturer founded in 1971 by Bruce C.H. Cheng. Delta has sales offices worldwide with manufacturing facilities and R&D centers in Taiwan, China, USA, Europe, Thailand, Japan, Singapore, India, Mexico and Brazil.[1][2]

History

Delta began manufacturing components for Taiwan's TV makers so they could avoid depending on Japanese imports. It built its success on the parts that connect a TV to its power source, and that later put it at the center of the island's personal computer, notebook and telecom boom.[3]

For years now Delta's gross profit margins have stayed above 20%. By focusing so much on upgrading its products, Delta has helped foster the celebrated obsession of Taiwan's manufacturers with staying on the cutting edge.[3]

Delta has long made power adapters for brands like Apple Inc., but in 2012 it began a more ambitious project: to build robots cheap enough to replace human workers in China's electronics factories.[4]

By 2016, Delta hopes to sell a version for as little as $10,000, which would be less than half the cost of current mainstream robots. That price is also cheaper than the salary of a Chinese worker, and the robot can work around the clock. Delta believes it can achieve the low price through cost advantages at its Taiwan facility, in-house component production and a shorter target life span for its robot.[4]

Delta also boasts Taiwan's first green office building, in Tainan, which uses much less energy and water than a standard office building.[3]

At the end of 2014, Delta announced an acquisition of Norwegian firm Eltek ASA, the Number 2 player in the world in the telecom power field.[5]

Research and Development

Delta has design teams, engineering teams, and R&D laboratories in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, US and Europe. Delta's labs at Research Triangle Park in North Carolina in US include the Delta Power Electronics Laboratory, which develops high-efficiency and high-density power conversion products, and the Delta Networks R&D Laboratory, which develops networking products.[6]

In recent years Delta has improved the efficiency of its power supplies from 60-70% to higher than 90%.[6]

Among the firm's latest investments were in Singapore early this year, when it opened a life sciences and diagnostics lab venture at Biopolis, partnering the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) at government agency A*Star. Delta's investment will be a few million US dollars. It aims to make faster and smaller kits to detect infectious diseases.[5]

Product and Solution

Delta Group provides power and thermal management solutions.[7][8] Delta launched its first AC motor drive products in 1995. Since then, Delta has continued expanding its product lines, developing programmable logic controls and entering the field of motion control.[9] Delta building automation solutions integrate renewable energy systems, energy management systems, real-time monitoring systems, power quality improvement systems and lighting management system; as well as HVAC management systems.[10] Delta’s datacenter include power management, rack & accessories, and an environmental management system.[11]
Delta provides power solutions to fulfill all kinds of applications with worldwide and regional services. Cabinet solutions offer equipment a cool, dry and clean environment through versatile fan, heat exchange, air conditioner or even hybrid cooling solutions.[12]

Delta also constructed the world’s largest solar energy system to power a sport stadium for the 2009 World Games Stadium using its photovoltaic inverters with a conversion efficiency of over 98%, as well as supplying solar cells, modules, systems and other key components. In addition, Delta has succeeded in developing high efficiency LED lighting systems and high definition projectors using LEDs as a light source.[6]

The company began to plan the shift away from the OEM and ODM businesses when it saw that the personal computer business was starting to mature. The goal is to help customers find solutions, and in the process this may even put Delta in competition with some of its customers.[13]

To move ahead, Delta is making higher-margin components for industrial automation, as well as components for smartphones and tablets. From supplying parts for robots like motor drives and servo motors, Delta is now making the assembly robots themselves, known as SCARA robots. It is also expanding into supplying power components for telecommunications, such as for use in base stations.[5]

Industrial automation has been identified as the“rising star” business. This will further lead to building automation, a new concept the company hopes to be able to tap into.[13]

Delta has developed a “green data centre” which would provide the customer with an area to put a cabinet with the necessary components and connect to a network. The system is already in place now in China, Poland and some other European countries, and the company is looking to set up the system up in Thailand with some telecom companies.[13]

In India, Delta is helping companies save money on setting up telecommunication tower installations by offering hybrid energy sources such as solar panels and hydrogen. This is cheaper than using fossil fuel, which is widely used in India because the electricity supply is so erratic.[13]

Delta already has an in-house automation department that can produce the machines to make those components. Delta is also moving into the healthcare diagnostics space. It currently makes glucose and pulse meters.[5]

Awards

Throughout its history, Delta has received global awards and recognition for its business milestones, innovative technology and corporate social responsibility.[7]

In 2014, Delta Electronics was ranked at the highest A-level of the Climate Performance Leadership Index (CPLI) of the 2014 Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). Delta was the only company from greater China to be named to the index from nearly 2,000 listed companies.[14] Delta was also selected for the 2014 Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) World for the fourth consecutive year and for the DJSI Emerging Markets, which was launched in 2013, for the second year in a row.[15]
Delta’s latest high efficiency solutions enabled the "Orchid House", built by the Unicode team from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), to win the 3rd place "Energy Efficiency Award" at the Solar Decathlon Europe 2014 held at the Chateau de Versailles, France. Its high efficiency solutions include solar photovoltaic power generation, energy storage, energy monitoring, and environmental control.[16]
In 2013, the Delta Shanghai Operations Center and R&D Building received LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) gold certification from the US Green Building Council (USGBC).[17]
IR Magazine's Greater China Awards 2013: The Best Sustainability Practices Award. Delta's CEO Ping Cheng won the Best Investor Relations by a CEO/President Award.[18]

See also

References

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