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 life cycle of their…

EMS Providers and the Struggle Against Dwindling Profit Margins

By Logan Wamsley

Electronics manufacturing service (EMS) providers pride themselves on their adaptability. Many industry experts, in fact, would claim this as an EMS provider’s most important attribute. As the technological landscape continues to change and their OEM partners continue to pursue new, exciting frontiers with their products, they must constantly evolve their business model to provide competitive…

The Challenge of Die and Wafer Banking: Solved

By Logan Wamsley

As technology in the electronics industry continues to evolve and accelerate at an unprecedented rate, manufacturers are being forced to adapt their tried-and-true supply chain models to confront this new reality – or risk falling behind in the race to produce the cutting-edge products consumers expect. In their efforts to combat obsolescence, for example, many…

The Significance of Partstat’s ISO Certifications

By Logan Wamsley

Regardless of services offered or products manufactured, there have always been certain universal quality management standards implemented by the world’s most successful companies. At the center of these standards was a deceptively simple concept: maximizing customer satisfaction. For most of history, these standards went largely unwritten – a common endpoint reached through trial and error…

Cypress Last Time Buy and EOL Notices

By Michael Stratton

This Cypress last time buy date is August 8th, of 2018. Partstat will use OUR capital to purchase your entire projected quantity needed, directly from the OCM, on your behalf. We will purchase, own, warehouse and fulfill enough inventory for production and service to anywhere in the world you designate for up to a 10…

The Rise of ASICs, and What It Means for Your Supply Chain

By Logan Wamsley

The latest industry trend taking the world (and Wall Street) by storm is cryptocurrency, or more specifically the blockchain technology used to drive it. Gartner defines a blockchain technology as ”a shared, distributed, decentralized and tokenized ledger that removes business friction by being independent of individual applications or participants.” The idea that critical, sensitive data…