Laboratory
Our range of products and components supports projects and experiments in electronics, physics, robotics, and mechatronics, providing essential tools for practical learning and innovation.
Products and Solutions for Education
Inspiring and supporting future generations of engineers around the world
We are the partner for all your project needs
Our goal is simple: to provide the products, resources, and opportunities necessary to enhance the education of tomorrow's engineers. Whether you're an educator looking to enrich the learning experience or a student seeking practical solutions for your latest project, RS is here to help.
Explore some of the environments below to learn more about what products and technical solutions we can provide...
Facilities and Maintenance
We offer products and components that are suitable for maintaining campus facilities and supporting efficient operations in university environments.
Machine Workshop
Our selection of components and tools is ideal for mechanical, electrical, and robotics workshops, ensuring you have the right resources for hands-on learning and project development.
Explore a selection of key product categories designed to foster innovation, teaching, and learning
Test & Measurement
Automation & Control
Lab Essentials
PCB & Prototyping
Hand Tools & PPE
Bench Power Supplies & Sources
Offering linear, switching, programmable models, along with accessories like adapters and programmable loads. Ideal for supporting various testing and development needs.
Multimeters & Accessories
Available in bench and handheld versions, with analog and digital options, plus accessories like probes, clamps, and fuses. Perfect for versatile electrical testing needs.
Oscilloscopes & Accessories
Includes analog, digital, and mixed signal models with accessories like probes, clamps, and spectrum analyzers. Ideal for precise testing and measurement tasks.
Signal Generators & Analysers
Includes waveform, function, and pulse signal generators, along with analyzers and accessories. Ideal for precise signal testing and analysis in various engineering tasks.
Engineering Test & Measurement
Precision tools like calipers, durometers, laser levels, and protractors for accurate measurements in various engineering tasks, including angles, levels, gaps, and hardness.
Data Acquisition & Logging
A selection of data acquisition and logging tools, including data loggers, chart recorders, and accessories for capturing and monitoring various signals like temperature, pressure, and voltage.
Sensors
The selection includes general-purpose, RFID, and IO-Link sensors, offering high-performance solutions for detection, measurement, smart automation, and precision monitoring across various applications.
Automation Signalling
From emergency lighting to warning buzzers, automation signalling offers visual and audible alerts for workplace and equipment applications, ensuring safety, efficiency, and real-time system monitoring.
PLCs, HMIs & Industrial Computing
The range includes PLCs, HMIs, and logic modules, offering high-quality solutions to enhance process control and automation systems, managing electromechanical processes and building systems.
Process Control
Offering temperature control technologies, panel meters, and timers, this range provides reliable solutions for a variety of applications, ensuring precise control and monitoring across different industries.
Lab Equipment
Our selection includes microscopes, maginifying lamps, beakers, pipettes, ultrasonic cleaners and stirrers. We offer professional quality products for various lab tasks, from measuring to cleaning.
Semiconductors
We offer a comprehensive range of semiconductor devices from leading suppliers. Our broad portfolio includes products from ON Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics, Vishay, Microchip, Infineon, and many more.
Connectors
We supply a wide range of high quality components which include heavy duty industrial connectors, power connectors, modular connectors, electrical connectors, electronic and data connectors.
Cables & Wires
A wide range of cables and wires, including control, instrumentation, ethernet, halogen-free, and high-temperature cables, along with accessories like heat shrink, cable ties, and labelling systems.
Passives
Resistors, capacitors, inductors, transformers, diodes, ferrite beads and other components essential for building circuits, conducting experiments, and learning electrical principles in engineering education.
Batteries & Chargers
A variety of batteries in common and specialist types, such as LR14, button, hearing aid, AA, AAA, and D batteries. We also offer battery chargers, including rechargeable AA chargers or 12V chargers.
PCB Boards
Variety of PCBs includes backplanes, breadboards, LED boards, matrix boards, copper clad boards, extender boards, stripboards, and SMT adapters, ideal for various stages of electronic development.
3D Printing & Scanning
3D printers, scanners, and accessories, perfect for small-scale or heavy-duty use in schools or manufacturing. We stock leading brands plus essential accessories like 3D filaments and software.
Soldering
Soldering and desoldering tools, such as soldering irons, stations, iron tips, wicks, and fume extraction equipment. We also stock essential consumables like solder, flux, pastes, and masks.
PCB Tools
Range of PCB cutting, punching, forming & drilling products to meet, as well as a choice and various sizes of PCB drill bits, you will also find wire wrapping tools and PCB milling equipment.
ROCK SBC Shop
ROCK SBC offer includes SBC's, add-ons, cases, power supplies, and cables. These products provide versatile solutions for development projects and prototyping, perfect for education and tech enthusiasts.
Arduino Shop
A wide selection of official Arduino boards, kits, and accessories. From starter kits like Arduino Uno to stackable shields and compatible boards, we provide everything needed for projects and prototyping.
BBC micro:bit Shop
Our BBC micro shop includes micro boards, kits for building robots or wearables, and various add-ons like light rings, battery packs, and cables. Ideal for teaching programming and electronics to students.
Development Tools & SBC's
Kits, evaluation boards, and accessories for single board computers, microcontrollers, and sensors. Ideal for rapid design and development in areas like power management, robotics, and signal processing.
Tool Kits & Tool Storage
Our selection includes tool chests, boxes, and cabinets. We also offer PC service kits, engineers and electronics kits, and maintenance toolkits to suit a variety of needs and applications.
Specialist Tools
Our range includes tweezers, bearing pullers, and tube benders, designed to support engineering students and schools in technical projects and practical applications.
Clamps & Vices
Our range of clamps and vices includes C-clamps, G-clamps, bench vices, and quick-release clamps. They provide secure holding solutions for various tasks in technical education and engineering projects.
Respiratory Protection
Our range of respiratory protection includes masks, respirators, filters, and accessories, designed for safety in environments with hazardous particles or chemicals. Suitable for labs, workshops, and industrial applications.
Hand Protection
A variety of gloves such as leather, latex, rubber, and puncture-resistant gloves. These gloves are ideal for protecting hands from hazardous materials, sharp objects, and other industrial risks.
Eye & Face Protection
Our selection includes safety goggles, face shields, and visors, providing essential protection in hazardous environments. Ideal for labs, workshops, and any area requiring safety from debris or chemicals.
Safety Shoes
Our selection includes steel-toe boots, slip-resistant shoes, and insulated boots, providing essential protection for hazardous environments. Designed for comfort and durability in industrial and lab settings.
Disposable Workwear
Items like coveralls, lab coats, hoods, hair nets, and overshoes, which provide essential protection against dirt, chemicals, and contamination in labs, workshops, and industrial environments.
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