Digi-Key Electronics partners with Siemens to distribute automation, control products

Sept. 3, 2021

Digi-Key Electronics, which offers electronic and automation components, secured a distribution partnership with Siemens to offer a range of automation and control products.

Siemens supplies products for manufacturing automation and control applications, including automotive manufacturing, data centers, electronics manufacturing, healthcare, intralogistics, food and beverage, textiles and more. This partnership brings Siemens’ products including power supplies, human-machine interface (HMI) technology, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and heavy duty switches, to Digi-Key customers.

“We are proud to partner with Siemens, the global leader in automation, to further our commitment to maintaining the world’s largest selection of automation products,” said Eric Wendt, strategic program development director at Digi-Key. “Siemens’ leading-edge technology and broad product offering, combined with our extensive reach and inventory, will be a powerful combination.”

 Marla Davids, vice president of digital industrial sales at Siemens, added: “e-commerce is one of our fastest growing industrial automation distribution channels in the U.S., and we’re proud to be launching our new partnership with Digi-Key. Our customers expect greater flexibility and convenience now more than ever, and Digi-Key has the online product selection and unique engineering design tools that are important to their success. With Dig-Key’s special emphasis on new product introductions, we’re looking forward to further growth.”

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