IN Brief:
- Mouser has added nine manufacturers to its industrial automation portfolio during the first half of 2026.
- The additions span connectivity, power, sensing, control, cable management, automation platforms, and industrial instrumentation.
- Industrial electronics design is becoming more integrated as machinery, sensing, power, and network infrastructure converge.
Mouser Electronics has expanded its industrial automation portfolio with nine manufacturer additions covering AI, connectivity, power, control, sensing, cable management, and industrial instrumentation.
The additions include ELKO EP, Evezor, icotek, LAPP, LITEON Power, METZ CONNECT, NOSHOK, Sensor Solutions, and StarTech. Together, the companies widen Mouser’s coverage across industrial networking, robotics, safety systems, IIoT, measurement, control cabinets, machinery, and embedded industrial infrastructure.
ELKO EP brings electronic control and automation components for building and industrial systems, while Evezor adds modular automation and motion-control platforms. icotek covers cable management and entry systems for industrial enclosures and machinery. LAPP and METZ CONNECT extend the distributor’s industrial cabling, Ethernet, and interface options, with LITEON Power adding power conversion technologies.
NOSHOK contributes pressure, level, and temperature measurement instrumentation. Sensor Solutions adds sensing technologies, while StarTech brings IT and connectivity accessories used across industrial and embedded systems. The breadth of the additions reflects the way industrial electronics projects now pull together several hardware layers at once.
Industrial automation design has moved away from isolated control hardware towards connected, serviceable systems. Machines are being linked into plant networks, data platforms, safety systems, remote monitoring tools, and predictive maintenance workflows. Component selection increasingly spans the controller, sensor, power supply, connector, cable entry, network interface, enclosure, and software layer.
That shift can make availability and documentation as important as the component itself. Design teams lose time when selected parts are difficult to source, poorly documented, regionally constrained, or unsupported across the expected lifecycle. Industrial equipment may remain in production or service for many years, and substitutions can trigger requalification, mechanical changes, or field-support problems.
Wireless industrial sensing has been developing along the same lines, with expanded LoRa design resources supporting long-range, low-power systems for distributed monitoring. Those designs still depend on the surrounding infrastructure: reliable power, physical connectivity, environmental protection, sensing hardware, and field-maintainable installation methods.
The inclusion of cable-management and enclosure-entry suppliers is a useful marker of how industrial design boundaries are shifting. Cable glands, entry plates, shielding, strain relief, and enclosure interfaces become more critical when machinery carries higher data rates, more sensors, and more modular wiring. These are not glamorous components, but weak physical infrastructure can undermine otherwise capable electronics.
Power conversion carries the same practical weight. Embedded devices, edge gateways, safety systems, and industrial controllers operate in electrically noisy environments, often with long service expectations and limited access for maintenance. Power components have to support resilience, thermal margin, and regional compliance rather than simply meet nominal voltage and current requirements.
Robotics and flexible automation are increasing demand for component ecosystems that can be adapted without long integration cycles. Motion platforms, safety circuits, cable routing, sensing, and control electronics have to work as a coherent system, especially in smaller facilities where engineering teams need to change production lines quickly. Supplier breadth can shorten that process when it is backed by usable technical content, evaluation hardware, and dependable stocking.
Mouser’s additions reinforce the industrial electronics trend towards wider, more integrated design stacks. Power, sensing, connectivity, mechanics, and control are converging inside machines that must be connected, maintainable, and capable of long service. Distribution portfolios are being shaped by that convergence as much as by individual product launches.
