GW Instek

This Taiwanese company was created in 1975 to manufacture electrical test and measurement instrumentation. The company's product range consists of more than 300 items, including oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, test instruments, signal sources and surveillance systems. GW Instek's head office is in Taipei, and there are subsidiaries in China, Japan, Malaysia and Korea. Product manufacture is managed using the ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System. The company also complies with the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System, and it has a certified calibration laboratory. GW Instek manufactures a complete range of oscilloscopes, from handheld analogue models right through to digital storage, four-channel 500 MHz units that are ideal for signal analysis, due to their high sampling rate. For higher-frequency work, the company also manufactures a range of 3GHz spectrum analysers. These devices are complemented by function generators that have the capability to generate variable duty cycle square waves as well as sawtooth, sine, and arbitrary waveforms. A key test laboratory component is the laboratory power supply - GW Instek's range includes single, dual and quad power supplies with outputs from 93 watts to over 1,000 watts.