IHS PCNalert
Critical component information pushed to your desktop
IHS PCNalert meets component management challenges head-on by delivering supplier’s availability, technical, and compliance information to your desktop. Based on the professionally maintained IHS Product Change and End of Life Database, PCNalert provides current, accurate component status information.
Users can rely on comprehensive information that is updated and delivered daily to stay aware of the component and supplier events that can affect their product development process.
Features
- Manufacturer’s updates continuously monitored; notices indexed and posted within 24 hours
- Critical information delivered in a standard format summary report with key dates such as last time buy, the affected part number, the number of affected AVL parts
- Improved matching algorithm delivers specific, relevant updates with fewer false-positive part number-to-notice matches
- Easy-to-read summary report, color-coded to indicate match confidence
- Access to catalogued, document-centric database for easy retrieval and review of manufacturer’s notices
- Integrated solution with access to email alert, summary report, document database, and website results
- Easy to configure and administer users and parts lists
Benefits
- Identify potential design, production, compliance and maintenance risks as early as possible
- Improve product development, manufacturing, and support plans with current availability information
- Determine relevance and potential impacts of manufacturer notices more quickly
- Tailored, consolidated reports delivered to users desktop avoid duplicating staff efforts to monitor AVLs and manufacturer notices
- Improve identification, analysis and resolution processes with current, consistent information available at every decision point
- Avoid production line stoppages due to component availability or compliance issues