Choosing the Right BOM Monitoring Tool for Obsolescence Management

By Logan Wamsley

Historically, BOM Monitoring services have been used to help original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, react to obsolescence in electronic components when it occurs. Upon confirmation of a critical component’s or semiconductor’s end of life, manufacturers would then either initiate a last time buy to secure sufficient inventory to support the entire lifecycle of their product,…

Featured on EBN: Component Shortages Give OEMs Cold Feet on Inventory Commitments

By Logan Wamsley

“There is little about the “Great Component Shortage of 2018” that hasn’t already been thoroughly analyzed. Unprecedented demand for smaller and more efficient passive electronics, especially in the automotive and IoT industries, has driven lead times for once commoditized components to the breaking point. What hasn’t been discussed, however, is the equal pushback OEMs are…

The Key to Staying Competitive in the Current Market

By Logan Wamsley

Nothing is worth compromising business continuity, right? After all, consistently acquiring and distributing the right quantity of components to the right manufacturing facilities is the aim of every supply chain manager, and a goal that is virtually impossible to accomplish without adapting to numerous and inevitable supply chain disruptions. The current component market, for example,…

The Human Element: Your Supply Chain’s X Factor

By Logan Wamsley

Steve Jobs once said, “Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.” Obviously, Jobs was not discussing the merits of Partstat, but he might as well have. Partstat not only stands on…

To Predict Component Allocation, There’s Only One Option

By Logan Wamsley

2018 has seen the chip market experiencing a period of nearly record demand, especially for chip capacitors, resistors, and memory such as NOR and NAND Flash. Although this surge was largely anticipated by many industry analysts, the sheer scale of it nevertheless has caught even some of the world’s leading chip manufacturers off guard. Even…

Why Does Obsolescence Impact Healthcare Manufacturers More than Most?

By Logan Wamsley

The healthcare industry is somewhat unique in the fact technology, for all of the responsibility it bears for moving society forward, is still not the primary force behind a patient’s decision to seek care. Does access to the latest specialized CT scanning technology sway a patient to seek an accurate cancer diagnosis at one medical…