Component Management

  • Blog
März 28, 2019
“You’re connected now caller” The risks of crosstalk.

Wussten Sie, dass der Ausdruck "Übersprechen" (engl. Crosstalk) aus der Zeit der Telefonzentralen stammt, in denen Mitarbeiter Anrufer miteinander verbunden haben, die manchmal ungewollt das Gespräch eines anderen hören konnten? Man sprach im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes über eine andere Leitung hinweg.

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  • Blog
Oktober 05, 2018
Connect Your Component Library to the Supply Chain

Take a walk in the engineer’s shoes: I need an 80 MHZ network controller for my new project and I found one in the PLM/PDM system. That was easy. Now a quick check in the procurement database to do a price and availability check. So far so good, now on to the component engineering system to see if there are any possible lifecycle issues with a 10-year minimum requirement. It’s my lucky day, no issues and it’s a company-preferred part with an ECAD library instance.

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Design engineers must have the ability to make intelligent component selections involving critical supply chain information without having to leav...