SUITA Electric Merges with INNO Instrument
We are proud to announce that SUITA Electric Corporation has officially joined INNO Instrument Inc. (215790.KQ). This strategic merger marks an exciting new chapter for both organisations and represents a powerful step forward in our shared mission to provide cutting-edge optical communication and measurement solutions worldwide.
Two Strong Brands Join Forces
Founded in 2017, SUITA Electric quickly gained industry recognition for its simple and intuitive tools designed to support professionals in the field of test and measurement. INNO Instrument, on the other hand, is an established name in the optical communication industry, backed by strong financial foundations, advanced manufacturing capabilities, and a global distribution network.
This merger represents more than just a consolidation of assets – it is a strategic alignment that enables faster go-to-market execution and offers customers around the world access to a complete portfolio of equipment and services.
Operational Changes and Brand Integration
As part of the merger, the SUITA brand will be fully integrated into INNO Instrument. To maintain clarity and continuity, all existing product model names will remain unchanged, but the SUITA logo will be replaced by the INNO Instrument brand across all future products and communications.
Additionally, manufacturing operations will transition from Japan to INNO Instrument’s modern production facility in Malaysia. Malaysia has already proven to be an effective base for telecom manufacturing, and this move is expected to enhance production efficiency and scalability.
Benefits for the Market and Customers
The merger brings several key benefits to customers, distributors, and the broader market:
-
Expanded Product Range: New and existing clients will now have access to a broader portfolio that includes fusion splicers, cleavers, OTDRs, and a full suite of telecom tools and accessories.
-
Stronger Global Reach: With regional offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, and China, the company will offer faster, more localised support worldwide.
-
Greater Pricing Flexibility: Combined resources and scale will allow for more competitive and adaptable pricing strategies.
-
Enhanced Marketing Power: A unified global marketing approach will drive increased brand visibility and lead generation across multiple regions.
Innovation and Expansion as a Shared Vision
The merger between SUITA Electric and INNO Instrument is a clear example of two complementary organisations coming together to achieve shared goals of growth, innovation, and long-term industry leadership. In an increasingly competitive and fast-paced global market, strategic consolidations like this are essential to delivering better value, faster innovation, and stronger customer relationships.
Shop Now
Applications
As the interface between the generator and the grid, the wind power converter is the core equipment in the wind turbine, and serves as one of the factors that determine the unit’s electrical performance, conversion efficiency and reliability, thus constituting the key and core of the whole wind power generation system. With the increasing capacity of wind turbines, wind power converter of larger capacity will be the future trend. Due to the drastic fluctuation of wind power, the electric and thermal stresses of the wind power converter will change dramatically, threatening the safety and reliability of the converter and interrupting the safe operation of the electrical equipment. As grid-connected wind turbine systems have been increasing, the wind power converter should improve its adaptability to the grid and its handling capability for grid failures so it can meet the grid power quality requirements. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a series of complete and rigorous testing solutions for wind power converters to ensure that their electrical performance, conversion efficiency and stability meet the requirements.
Climate changes including global warming and glacier melting caused by greenhouse over the past few decades are destroying the environment where we live in and threatening the future of humanity. With growing concerns over global climate changes from all over the world, a series of carbon emission reduction programs, including carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals, are being implemented. Nowadays, countries around the world are focusing on building a new power system with new energy at the core. The most prominent feature of the new power system is that new energy sources such as photovoltaic, wind power occupy a dominant position in the power supply structure, and its grid layout will be “large power grid + active distribution network + micro-grid”. Currently, the wind power development is going well with the support of the “two carbon goals” strategy. According to the Global Wind Energy Council, more than 52.5GW of new installed capacity was added worldwide in 2017, bringing the cumulative installed capacity worldwide to 539GW. Since 2009, China has been the market with most new wind power installations, with a cumulative total of more than 140 million kilowatts of installed capacity and more than 70,000 wind turbines in operation. China will continue to build wind farms and tap into more possibilities for wind power.
Without the wiring harness, the vehicle’s electrical circuit wouldn’t exist. The wiring harness refers to a set of bundled components designed for connecting the electrical circuit. These components are made of copper contact terminals (connectors) that are crimped to wires and cables and then encased with insulation or a metal shell. Automobile wiring harness testing includes environmental testing, electrical performance testing, and mechanical performance testing of the wiring harness.
Since its inception, the automobile industry has gone through a lot of advancements and become more and more electrified and intelligent, which has subsequently provided substantial opportunities for the evolution of automobile wiring harnesses. Just like the nerves and blood vessels in the human body, automobile wiring harnesses serve to interconnect various components of a vehicle. Therefore, the reliability of wiring harnesses has become a crucial indicator of automobile performance. SUITA Electric’s SBT60/300 battery tester is a high-precision, high-resolution instrument for battery resistance testing. It finds wide application in measuring the resistance of various batteries, including lithium batteries for mobile phones, storage batteries, power batteries, and static crimp resistance in automobile wiring harnesses. It employs the AC four-terminal testing method, enabling more accurate testing of battery’s internal resistance and voltage.
The safety problems caused by lithium-ion battery has become a topic arousing wide concern.
To ensure its safety, the design, manufacturing and usage of lithium-ion battery must be regulated by strict quality control and safety measures. INNO provides the SBT300 Battery Tester with high accuracy for battery internal resistance testing. It can accurately measure the safety performance indicators of lithium-ion battery, monitor these data in real time and save the measurements. Lithium-ion battery safety performance testing mostly involves core parameter measurement, including voltage and internal resistance, to ensure its stability and safety.
Lithium-ion battery safety performance testing is getting more attention from the manufacturers and consumers. Its safety performance testing has the following levels of significance:
Avoid explosion and other accidents caused by misuse of lithium-ion battery
The emergence of lithium-ion battery brings convenience for many electronic equipment manufacturers, especially because of its extensive applications. However, its usage also causes a lot of accidents, and some of them can be contributed to lithium-ion battery safety testing not in place. Lithium-ion battery testing usually provides a specific temperature report and a report for saving lithium battery in a proper environment, and user can learn the proper ways to use Li-ion battery.Extend lithium-ion battery lifetime
The service life of lithium-ion battery depends on the charge current, voltage, storage environment for battery and level of usage. Lithium-ion battery testing can measure battery capacity to remind users to pay attention to the saturation during charging. It helps many manufacturers extend product lifetime more effectively during production.Confirm the usage of lithium battery with performance testing
Lithium-ion battery is used for large electronic product and electric appliance production, and it can be said it is ubiquitous in daily life. Professional lithium-ion battery testing companies would define the range of application for different types of Li-ion batteries and answer the questions of consumers on usage limits of lithium battery. Lithium-ion battery is an enduring product, and defining their usage limits can save a lot of unnecessary expenses.
Industrial robot is widely used as articulated robot manipulator or multi-degree-of-freedom machine with certain automation. It can support various processing and manufacturing with its own power source and control ability.
Industrial robot is extensively applied in electronics, logistics, chemical engineering and other industrial fields. With the development of the times, a lot of heavy, repeated or meaningless routine work completed by human will be done by industrial robots in the future.
With the continuous expansion of industrial robot application, the demand for its coordinating equipment is also on the rise. If an unqualified robot malfunctions during operation, it might cause economic loss, and in more severe cases, it could result in casualties. In this case, it is essential to run tests on industrial robots.
In order to assess industrial robot motor drive, the power consumption of the motors and controllers under all kinds of working conditions must be measured for the whole process. In order to analyze and study the control process and assess the transient characteristics of industrial robots, their transient voltage, current, power and variation trend must be measured and these measurements must be stored for further analysis. Our power analyzer can measure and analyze the motor rotor position of industrial robots with motor-channel-input rotate speed and torque and other signals, and calculate the rotation angle of the motor through the corresponding algorithm. Same measurement is conducted on the motor under different conditions to assess the stability of the robot. Our SPAW7000 Power Analysis Wavecorder has a sampling rate up to 2MHz with waveform math operation features. It can measure transient power and it is equipped with a 512G/1TG large-capacity memory. The instrument can conduct seven-channel harmonic analysis with different phase locked loop (PLL) circuits. It can measure two motors simultaneously. By synchronizing two SPAW7000 Power Analysis Wavecorders, the mechanical output parameters of four motors can be measured simultaneously. It is especially suitable for robot performance assessment and testing.
In the field of photovoltaic power generation, inverters are generally categorized into two types: grid-connected inverters and off-grid inverters. The primary characteristic of grid-connected inverters is their higher power capacity and relatively lower cost.
They enable precise control of electric energy and do not require energy storage. DC electricity generated by photovoltaic systems is converted by grid-connected inverters and then directly fed into the public electrical grid. This ensures that the AC electricity is fully synchronized with the public grid, meeting the required frequency and phase characteristics of AC power.
At a time of an increasingly strained energy supply, doubled with a growing demand for electricity, public electrical grids are imposing higher quality and performance requirements on grid-connected inverters. However, in the current market, some inverters do not meet these requirements, and they may struggle to pass even conventional electrical characteristic tests, such as over/under-voltage protection, anti-islanding functionality, high/low voltage ride-through, harmonic distortion, maximum power point tracking (MPPT), and more. Therefore, it is essential to establish a series of stringent and comprehensive testing solutions for grid-connected inverters to ensure that they comply with relevant quality and performance standards, and can work safely and stably for a long time.
The emergence of industrial robot significantly improves production efficiency and it is widely used in traditional manufacturing, smart manufacturing and new energy fields.
However, the issue of the necessity of robot makers testing the dynamic and static performance of industrial robot is also exposed during its usage, and it has become a bottle neck limiting industrial robot usage. INNO provides the SPAW7000 Power Analysis Wavecorder which can run a series of tests on industrial robot and provide a theoretical basis for users to design and optimize their industrial robot design.
The dynamic and static performance test of industrial robot is mainly about testing motor rotate speed, torque and other important parameters. The rotate speed and torque testing has become an important indicator for enterprises assessing the lifetime of industrial robot. The test can reflect the operating conditions of industrial robot in its current state visually, and provide reliable data analysis and report application demand to enterprises.
In order to solve the problems related to industrial robot dual-motor rotate speed and torque testing, INNO provide the SPAW7000 Power Analysis Wavecorder with high measurement accuracy. SPAW7000 can achieve simultaneous testing for multi-channel motor boards. With the power board, motor board and torque and rotate speed sensor, it can assess various motors in a robot simultaneously and can test up to 2 motors at the same time. With the test and commissioning integration approach, enterprises and users can measure the overall performance of robot motor system more accurately.
Transformer plays an important role in power, electric, information and communication technology for large-scale distributed renewable energy power generation system. It is a sensor used in distributed and centralized renewable energy system.
Variable-frequency drive (VFD), using frequency conversion technology and microelectronic technology, controls alternating-current motor and power control equipment by changing motor operating frequency.
As industrial automation improves continually, VFD is extensively applied. Because VFD has an irreplaceable role in people’s production and living, it is imperative to run relative tests on it.Due to the properties of VFD in terms of a huge amount of harmonics, high distortion and non-operating frequency electricity, large errors and even completely incorrect measurements will occur when measuring it with traditional meters. Instruments with Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) method should be used to get correct measuring results. VFD output fundamental and harmonic test is based on Fourier transform, and an essential condition to ensure Fourier transform accuracy is whole cycle truncation, which means Fourier transform should involve data corresponding to integral period. Most of the testing instruments on the market cannot achieve that, which leads to great fluctuation of measurements and unreliable measurement accuracy.
Our power analyzer and our current sensor used together can avoid the occurrence of the two above situations. Six sensors are distributed along the input/output side of the tested VFD for simultaneous high-speed data acquisition and the measurements are sent to the power analyzer by high-speed optical fiber bus in a lossless manner. The experimental data are thus generated.