4DOnline Web Services:
Current and comprehensive parts data, where you need it most
Part numbers already populate fields across your company’s network. CAD drawings of engineers call out the location of outsourced components in your designs. Applications in the purchasing department link part numbers to orders, vendors, and inventory.
To learn anything more about the part beyond its number, such as its design specifications, its compliance with environmental regulations, its marketplace availability, and so on, requires a lengthy round of research. Professional must look up the information among multiple outside database sources, a task made more difficult by inconsistent results and out-of-date entries. What if you could simply simple click on the part number inside each of your applications, and gain instant online access to all critical information about that component?
4DOnline Web Services connects your network to IHS Parts Universe, a complete, up-to-date database containing over 20 million electronic components, from more than 500 manufactures representing over 350 categories.
Parts Universe encompasses the full spectrum of board level electronic components:
- Integrated circuits for both commercial industry and military uses
- Electromechanical devices
- Frequency control devices
- RF/microwave
- Optoelectronics
- Capacitors
- Connectors
- Inductors
- Resistors
The electronics database offers far more than just parts numbers and one-line descriptions. Parts Universe includes a complete set of information about the part’s design and dimensions, its compliance certification, and forecasted status on the long-range availability of the component on the marketplace. A single click on your part number inside your own engineering or purchasing application immediately links you to:
- manufacturers’ datasheets
- alternate components
- part status
- application notes
- timing diagrams
- purchase change notices (PCNs)
4DOnline Web Services offers the powerful capability to interface your applications directly to the Parts Universe Electronics Database. Through xml web calls based on customer-defined requirements, IHS delivers timely and comprehensive part information directly linked inside your internal system. 4DOnline Web Services enable you to make the educated design and purchasing decisions.
Integration with the IHS online database allows you to link your CAD assemblies to manufacturer specifications, augment your purchasing orders with and up-to-date market availability, and monitor the status of outsourced components as your project progresses over time. IHS partnerships with product lifecycle management system developers such as Avnet Prómiere/Arena Solutions, Parametric Technology Corporation, i2, and Agile assure the highest quality and reliability in a parts management system available anywhere.
With comprehensive information available from a single source, engineers and purchasing professionals reduce the time they spend researching component information:
- Search one comprehensive resource instantly, rather than hunting through multiple catalogs, websites, and other sources to find critical information.
- Quickly and easily find replacement parts. Parts Universe automatically identifies form/fit/function replacements as well as upgrades and downgrades.
- Perform side-by-side comparisons of components. Parts Universe will highlight the technical differences for you.
4DOnline Web Services from IHS does more than simplify research: By choosing the best parts from the beginning, the costs of re-engineering later are avoided. The risks of choosing a soon-to-be obsolete component, one which does not comply with your product’s compliance standards, or a part which simply does not fit or function, are greatly reduced.
Find all the data that allows you to make the right decisions, right where you need it – in your company’s applications. Call or email an informative IHS expert today and find out how 4DOnline Web Services can combine your database assets with the up-to-date and comprehensive Parts Universe.