Overcoming the Costs of Die and Wafer Banking
The decision to incorporate die and wafer banking into your product designs is an easy one to make if it’s in the OEM’s capacity to do so. Not only can the custom-designed ASICs assembled during…
The Secret to a Successful Obsolescence Management Strategy
OEMs across the globe in nearly every imaginable industry, in some capacity, feel the impact of obsolescence on their supply chain. The reasons for the discontinuation of critical electronic components are varied, but regardless of…
Rising Prices for Electronic Components: The Full Story
The current component shortage has had a profound effect in all aspects of supply chains. Suppliers’ inability to increase capacity to meet demand in the automotive and IoT markets, for example, has extended lead times…
Where Last Time Buys Fit into the Aerospace Industry
There are some aerospace products that will never be considered obsolete. Many of the largest component manufacturers in the industry have been supplying nuts and bolts to aircraft specifications for decades — and other than…
Live on EPS News: OEMs Should Commit to Inventory During Component Shortages
“There’s a degree of irony in the fact that, in the face of the most significant component shortage since the turn of the century, OEMs are regularly holding high-level meetings about how to rid themselves…
The Value of Lifecycle Confirmation in Your Obsolescence Management Strategy
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…