Design for supply - or the real value of live availability information
There can be few purchasing departments in the electronics industry that haven’t scoured the Net for components whose end-of-life had actually been announced by the manufacturer before the design was signed off – if only someone had let the design team know before they finished testing the prototype.
How to Buy
Design engineers often use the well-known international catalogue distributors as a ready guide to the components available on the market, valuing the convenience of having components for the prototype shipped within a day or two. Their priority is to build a system that works, meets the design brief in terms of cost, size, performance and functionality, and is delivered within the timeframe allotted. Normally, they don’t have time to contact the supplier of each of the several hundred components on the bill of materials and make sure that it will be available for the envisaged production life of the product.
Until now, there hasn’t been a single supplier that would at the same time ship small quantities of a comprehensive range of components quickly, provide a reliable guide to long term availability at that stage, and also support volume shipments of the components for the production phase of the project. That gap has been filled with the launch of
www.anglia-
live.com, the first electronic component site aimed at engineers designing for mass production. It is a service that allows customers to take projects seamlessly from embryonic design to volume production.
● Anglia is now offering free delivery on all orders from Anglia Live and by phone and fax
Where to buy
Anglia Live customers are only offered parts recommended for new designs, and are given full visibility of Anglia current and projected stock levels and any product change or termination notifications (PCN / PTN) issued by the supplier. The stock and pricing information on the Anglia Live website is truly live, order a device and the stock level will reduce in real time. Anglia also provides information on future stock levels. Designers using parts from the site can generate a bill of materials that their purchasing department can source in volume with a single phone call.
What to buy
Anglia Live is bound together by one of the industry’s most comprehensive parametric search engines, populated with data that has been verified and entered by Anglia itself to ensure complete consistency of presentation. Other features include full predictive search based on Anglia designation, industry standard part number or description, and images and manufacturers’ data sheets for the majority of the 300,000+ line items featured on the site. The new Anglia Live service covers all stocked products including Ready Reel, production ready split reels of smaller quantities held in stock at Anglia’s Wisbech Distribution Centre for same- day shipment and labelled with the lot and batch details of the originating reel to provide full traceability.
Design for supply
● Using the site, design engineers can choose from the wide range of Analog Devices parts that are recommended for new designs
No pilot would take off without a reliable weather forecast for his entire route. With Anglia Live at hand, design engineers similarly need no longer specify a device without an ‘availability forecast’ for the anticipated life of the project. Design for supply is here to stay.
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