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Nothing is immune to change in the manufacturing industry. As consumer needs change along with advancements in technology, manufacturers do not, nor do they ever, have the option of remaining idle — or at least remaining idle with the expectation of retaining market share. In order to accomplish consistent market growth, or even remain competitive,…
If asked what determines the manufacturing cost of an electronic component, many might be surprised to discover that the most capital is spent during raw materials acquisition. This holds particularly true for passive components such as multilayered ceramic chip capacitors (MLCCs), which incorporate a variety of materials into their designs including nickel, copper, aluminum, zinc,…
If your company just received a product change notification (PCN) for a critical electronic component or semiconductor, the first thing you should do is consider yourself one of the lucky ones. Of all the electronic components that transition toward obsolescence, roughly half are issued without any prior notice. While component manufactures do strive to keep…
Not long ago, few would argue that the healthcare and consumer electronics industries had anything in common. In fact, the two industries in many respects existed as polar inverses of each other. Where one was defined by ever-shortening lifecycles in line with both short consumer buyer cycles and electronic component lifecycles, the other was defined…
With the help of 50 billion points of Big Data acquired from thousands of suppliers who upload their inventory to our platform, Partstat’s BOM Monitoring Solution allows us to not only accurately identify which components are transitioning toward obsolescence, but accurately predict obsolescence before it occurs. With the help of a status rating for each…
Although many manufacturing cycles in the last century have been defined by periods of consolidation and diversification (aerospace being a notable example of this), few analysts would argue that the electronics supply chain has not grown substantially more complex in a relatively short amount of time. Many industries that rarely had need for much beyond…