Parts Solutions White Papers
A Risk-Based Approach to Component and Supplier Management
To achieve a sustainable profit, manufacturers can take a structured risk management approach to achieve higher ROI and prevent unexpected costs despite threats from shrinking component lifecycles, increasingly complex regulations, counterfeiting, and an economic downturn that threatens the health of many suppliers. Learn how leading manufacturers take a strategic look at supply chain risks and put in place the framework and infrastructure that provides product and component intelligence, including content and communication processes.
Designing Medical Products for RoHS, REACH and Global Hazardous Substance Regulations
Concerns about hazardous substances are mounting daily and medical product manufacturers are now going to have to anticipate and adapt to even the smallest changes in materials and substances, even if they occur at the very beginning of the supply chain. Medical product manufacturers are familiar with regulatory compliance, but they are much less accustomed to managing the growing number of environmental regulations restricting the use of hazardous materials introduced into their supply chains. Understanding the scope of environmental regulations and managing them will take a significant amount of time, information, and insight. If they haven’t already, engineering and procurement personnel will have to raise these issues at the corporate level.
MRO Inventory Optimization is Now Considered Business Critical
Process and manufacturing organizations have significant investment in maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) inventories, yet it remains a misunderstood and often mismanaged portion of a company's asset base. This white paper describes an industry-proven approach to optimizing MRO inventory through real-time adjustments to Order Points, Order Quantities, and Lead Times. It shows how you can improve plant capacity and equipment availability, while simultaneously reducing MRO inventory investment.
How to Obtain Market Information for Intelligent Bid Decisions
The U.S. Government makes hundreds of thousands of documents and databases available regarding procurements. But, the finding the specific part information needed to support bid decisions or an existing contract requires a significant amount of time. Stop Wasting Time Searching Government Databases.
MRO Data Optimization
Industrial, process and manufacturing organizations are often plagued by 'dirty' MRO item descriptions. Learn how to effectively utilize a schema (or data dictionary) and automated classification software for cleansing and standardizing item descriptions.
Living With the Dynamics of Electronic Components
Introduces the philosophy of Component Event Management and introduce a new category of software that is being developed to help implement this concept and improve business performance.
Reducing Design Engineering Costs Through Information Handling
Gain insight into third party techniques and online applications proven to help businesses reduce design engineering costs while increasing company efficiency.
Stop Wasting Time Searching Government Databases
Discover how third party vendors help aerospace and defense contractors efficiently obtain critical parts and supplier information.
Implications of RoHS / WEEE Compliance
Explore the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) management requirements and restrictions on the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment(RoHS) in Europe and the actions taking place to achieve compliance assures that businesses operate uninterrupted by supply issues or regulatory fines.
Integrating Specs & Standards into Your Internal Company Documents
Explore the types of engineering information available, the methods used to automatically monitor and update data and how to best integrate external data into your internal system when specifications and standards change.
Unleashing the Power of EAM Systems by Optimizing MRO Catalog Data
Learn how to fully realize the power of EAM systems through effective industrial MRO parts information optimization such as consolidated catalogs of complete and consistent descriptions that are free of duplication and ambiguity.
Top Performers Use Compliance Best Practices
This white paper analyzes survey results regarding regulatory compliance for products and manufacturers’ efforts to pursue product compliance. The effectiveness of regulatory compliance practices is explored along with the costs and factors necessary to make product compliance a repeatable and beneficial characteristic for manufacturers worldwide.
Cleaning Up a Direct Materials Database
Explore the ways data cleansing, standardization and enrichment of direct parts data adds significant value to an organization and lays the foundation for a myriad of opportunities across the supply chain and beyond.
Risks to the System from Electronic Parts Obsolescence
Learn the roots of the obsolescence problem and the major strategies large corporations as well as the military, (through the program of DMSMS, or, Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages), use to cope with the consequences of the electronic parts obsolescence.
Cost Savings through MRO Parts Data Optimization
Explore how business is addressing the high costs associated with MRO parts, equipment, and supply management through data optimization.
Solving the Parts Obsolescence Dilemma (PDF)
From Content to Integration: Gaining Greater Value from Information (PDF)
Universal Commodity Parts System for Aircraft Manufacturers and Air Carriers (PDF)
Preheat Train Crude Distillation Fouling Propensity Evaluation by Ebert and Panchal Model (PDF)