The Value of Lifecycle Confirmation in Your Obsolescence Management Strategy

By Logan Wamsley

With over 50 billion points of Big Data on over 25 million electronic components, semiconductors, and peripheral products, Partstat is uniquely positioned to offer OEM customers a BOM Monitoring Solution that can monitor for component obsolescence and predict allocation in a real-time model updated every 15 minutes. And with our network of over 5,000 manufacturers…

How Is the Current Component Shortage Affecting Healthcare OEMs?

By Logan Wamsley

Back in 2007, the National Association of Home Builders and Bank of America combined their resources to produce an intriguing list of the longest-lasting electronic products in the average household. Among the top candidates were refrigerators and dryers at 13 years, garbage disposals at 12 years, and water heaters at 11 years. If you were…

Allocation: The Forgotten Supply Chain Disruptor

By Logan Wamsley

The goal of BOM monitoring services has always been to offer OEMs and EMS providers a way to seamlessly implement a proactive supply chain infrastructure that can accurately monitor obsolescence. However, especially in competitive markets where component demand far outweighs an OCM’s ability to meet supply orders, there is another variable that can be every…

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,…