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While each industry can be defined by its own defining features and challenges, the aerospace industry stands apart as being particularly unique — and risky. By 2023, the Airbus Global Market Forecast projects there to be roughly 37,400 passenger and freight aircraft in regular rotation, up from 18,460 in 2014. Despite this growth, however, the…
With our Big Data warehouse Partstat at our disposal — consisting of over 9 billion rows of current and historical data on over 20 million electronic components, semiconductors, and peripheral products — Partstat is uniquely positioned to offer OEM customers a BOM Monitoring Solution that can monitor for component obsolescence and predict allocation in a…
All OEMs are well-acquainted with the unique set of circumstances that necessitate a last time buy of critical electronic components. As the lifecycle of OEM products continues to increase against the decreasing lifecycle of electronic components, semiconductors, and peripheral products, last time buys are increasingly becoming the OEM’s method of choice for confronting obsolescence. The…
Useful doesn’t even begin to describe the impact critical electronic components have on an OEM product’s life cycle. Many standard electronic components and semiconductors have comparable alternatives that can be easily replaced — often by the same OCM, who may accompany the PCN with a list of options as a customer courtesy. More specialized parts…
Since the early 1900s when Henry Ford pioneered the original assembly line, the evolution of the supply chain has been tightly linked to the auto industry — and ever since it has been held up by manufacturers as a shining beacon representing what a supply chain is capable of. Compared to most modern manufacturers, auto…
When an OEM or EMS provider decides to adopt a BOM monitoring service into their supply chain, what do they expect to receive? And once it has been received, does it really provide what today’s supply chain requires? If we are discussing the vast majority of offerings currently available, the answer is relatively simple. With…