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…

The Benefits of Partstat’s Open-Source Big Data Platform

By Logan Wamsley

So much of what Partstat offers our users is rooted in our access to Big Data. As an acclaimed Big Data platform, we consist of, as of this writing, over 9 billion rows of current and historical data on 20 million parts sourced from over 3,000 unique manufacturers. In our BOM Monitoring Solution, Partstat provides…

The Key to Surviving Component Shortages: Long-Term Storage

By Logan Wamsley

Anyone paying attention to the state of the electronic component marketplace knows that 2018 has seen the most significant industry-wide shortage in over a decade. Lead times for once-commoditized components and semiconductors are, in some cases, stretching well over a year, throwing many a supply chain into a state of perpetual uncertainty. Many analysts are…

Partstat BOM Monitoring Solution: Your First 14 Days

By Logan Wamsley

Nearly every Partstat user who enrolls in our BOM Monitoring Solution already realizes they are getting the world’s premier service for obsolescence management — and the only one capable of predicting the growing issue of component allocation. What few realize, however, is that Partstat customers do not have to wait a few weeks or months…

The Aerospace Supply Chain in 10 Years

By Logan Wamsley

There’s an interesting paradox that can be attributed to the aerospace industry: despite being responsible for some most advanced military and consumer-based technology the world has ever seen, the supply chain that brings such technology to life is notoriously traditional. Where OEMs in other industries have adopted various software applications to monitor inventory and establish…