Popularity Contests Can Be Helpful
Let’s say that you’re at the beginning of your design–not even a schematic–but a block diagram drawn out on scratch paper. The blocks explain the subsystem interaction or features that you want to...
View ArticleBunnie Huang discusses BOMs
Bunnie Huang explains what a good bill of materials (BOM) should actually look like for anyone working with a manufacturing partner. Talk recorded September 22nd at Highway1. The post Bunnie Huang...
View ArticleThe Last Mile of Electronics BOMs
The last mile in electronics is the most difficult. Especially when it comes to building out your Bill Of Materials (BOM). It goes like this. You come up with an idea for a circuit. You search on...
View ArticleThe Shrinking Engineering Support Network
Oh, how the mighty have fallen One trend we have noticed in the electronics industry, is the shrinking engineering support network inside engineering institutions. This happened for a variety of...
View ArticleParts.io Natural Language Search
We talked a little bit about “part infer” last week in The Last Mile of Electronics – The BOM. That was a discussion mainly around passives and filling out the last 70% of your BOM. However, the point...
View ArticleWorking With Purchasing Departments
In the last Big vs Small article, we discussed the challenges that smaller electronics firms encounter from having fewer people on staff. Today, we’ll discuss working at a large engineering...
View ArticleJim Williams Quote
There's a dearth of analog design capability out there today, not because people can't do it or won't do it, but because it hasn't been taught. The post Jim Williams Quote appeared first on Parts.io...
View ArticleOpen Parts.io
Parts.io is now fully open to the public. No registration required. All the data. Free. Parts.io was launched in September of 2014 to a limited audience of alpha members. Those Alpha Members really...
View ArticleImproving RiskRank
In June of 2015, Parts.io became the first electronic component search engine to quantify risk on all components in the supply chain with RiskRank. We took the four lifecycle stages of a product and...
View ArticleRelated Parts
“Don’t forget the milk” How many of us have heard this refrain while walking out the door on the way to work? It’s tough to get through your daily work tasks and then still remember the pieces you were...
View ArticleComponent Selection: Differences In Prototyping, Pilot, and Production
The lifecycle stage of a new product dictates what types of components you can and should design into that iteration. Sometimes you need speed, other times you need quality. We will discuss 3 lifecycle...
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