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When viewing the electronics manufacturing industry from the outside, it is easy to gloss over the market conditions that have every bit as much to do with the production process as the design and assembly of the product itself. Just as a chef can only cook with the right ingredients, or a car technician can…
Traditionally, equipment manufacturers have viewed obsolescence management as a strategy that requires implementation only when the market explicitly declares it necessary. Through a product change notification (PCN) or other similar channel, the buyer would be notified when a pivot is necessary. Under certain circumstances, this is not necessarily a poor strategy — such a model…
2018 has officially come and gone, and for many professionals involved in the manufacturing supply chain, the end couldn’t have come soon enough. Despite the electronic component market increasing approximately 8% – with even faster growth expected in 2019 with the rollout of 5G networks – supply has consistently failed to match the skyrocketing demand.…
One of the defining features of Partstat is our ability to offer OEMs a solution capable of helping them maintain “long-term” product lifecycles. While such phrasing is accurate, what “long-term” actually means varies from industry to industry. What is long for the smartphone market, for example, is not on par with even the shortest medical…
Salmon are fascinating creatures in that that they are created with an inherent instinct to defy the natural order. In a world where common sense and logic nudge all forms of life toward the path of least resistance, salmon insist on swimming upstream against the current, willfully ignorant of the fact that that just turning…
The benefits of adopting a BOM monitoring service need no elaboration. Lead times for once commoditized passive components are now approaching near historic highs — in some cases beyond 52 weeks — and as component manufacturers continue to ramp up production to meet escalating demand, the lifecycles of their offerings continue to shorten. The problem…