Front End | Electronic Components Supply Network
and managing consigned inventories of end-of-life components. A growing number of specialist manufacturers are helping to ensure product availability by continuing licensed manufacture of electronic components after the prime manufacturer has exited the market. Primary manufacturers routinely support these companies by providing original tools and equipment. Other specialist organisations are producing form, fit and functional modules that replace some end-of-life components without requiring a PCB re-design. Software obsolescence is another huge customer design problem, but that is a topic for another day…
Concluding thoughts
The best advice I can give organisations in the UK electronics market is that they continue to manage and develop their existing supply network partnerships as these relationships have the potential to minimise any supply disruption and provide the best financial outcome (lowest total cost of ownership). Trust is implicit in the ongoing buyer / seller relationship within the electronic components supply network, especially in a world increasingly being dominated by proprietary technology and plagued by trade policy fluctuations. It is
therefore important that all organisations strive to improve their communication both up and down their electronic components supply network and, in the process, find mutually agreeable solutions to problems as they arise.
“ For information
Adam Fletcher is chairman of the Electronic Components Supply Network (ecsn), a business association established in 1970 that today offers support to all organisations with an interest in electronic components throughout
their entire lifecycle. He is also chairman of the International Distribution of Electronics Association (IDEA), an association of individual country electronic components associations whose objective is to arrive at and share best industry practice.
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