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Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
What is the current state of the electronic industry? Dan Schoenfelder joins us today to discuss the most extreme problems the PCB design industry is currently facing: supply shortages, particularly the semi-conductor products and microcontrollers.
Tune in, or listen on the go. Learn how to keep up with the industry challenges through Nexar and Octopart.
Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics
Show Highlights:
- Dan shares his background and role his role at Octopart and now as the Head of Nexar sales
- Problems with the supply chain continue; how are companies coping with the shortages in semi-conductor products and microcontrollers?
- What is lean manufacturing, and what drives an inflexible supply chain?
- The effect of the pandemic on manufacturing facilities is still very apparent and may continue through 2013
- Dan discusses the many benefits of utilizing Octopart to find and access electronic components data easily
- Octopart is the search engine for electronics and makes a great tool to integrate into PCB design workflows
- Dan shares Octopart’s new features, including the ability to filter and search by specs
- How does the Nexar API help with democratizing information in the electronics industry?
- Ability to obtain information through the Nexar API programmatically and incorporate that into native workflows inside the users’ businesses
- Nexar works with the RAI to ensure that all data collected can be trusted
- Dan talks about the Electronic Design to Delivery Index (EDDI), which is meant to provide users with free insight into what's happening in the electronic space in general
- Supply Chain Resilience tools – help designers build thoughtful designs and build BOMs (Bill of Materials) that are resilient to unforeseen challenges
- What’s coming next for Nexar?
Links and Resources:
Connect with Dan Schoenfelder on LinkedIn
Search electronic parts, visit Octopart.com
Design with the PCB Community, learn more about the Nexar ecosystem
Learn more about the Electronic Design to Delivery index (EDDI)
Watch Previous Episode with Dan Schoenfelder: Supply Chain Intelligence from Octopart
Connect with Zach on LinkedIn
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Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Zach Peterson, our guest host, interviews Lawrence Romine, Altium’s Vice president of Marketing, about the exciting future of PCB Design. In this episode, Lawrence will share Altium’s mission in creating an ecosystem that helps PCB designers and engineers be the best they can be and give them access to collaboration and sharing tools.
Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics
Show Highlights:
- What makes Altium designer a cutting-edge PCB designer software
- Design challenges and solutions, saving PCB designers 70-90 percent of potential problems
- Design with your manufacturer, addressing extinct manufacturing methods,
- Bringing the primary and secondary stakeholders in the PCB design Industry together through the cloud
- Building a solution that allows anybody with a PCB design background to design
- The benefit of Partnership vs. Acquiring
- For the Designers - accessibility to tools and capabilities where users could select what best fit their needs
- For the partners - allows them to access Altium's user base and make them aware of the design solutions that they would not have known existed
- More about Nexar, users will have access to:
- Frontend engineering tools
- Simulation tools
- Data management features
- Supply chain intelligence
- IHS Markit data
- A brief overview of Lawrence career background and experience before Altium
- NEXAR embed features
Links and Resources:
- Previous Podcast Episode: What is NEXAR?
- NEXAR website
- AltiumLive 2022 Connect: Now open for registration
- Connect with Zach Peterson on LinkedIn
- Connect with Lawrence Romine on Linkedin
- Watch Zach’s latest Altium Academy courses on Youtube
- Read Zach’s articles on Altium’s resource hub
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Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Octopart, the premier data platform for electronic components, handles at least 5 million unique searches every month. In this episode, together with Daniel Schoenfelder, head of Octopart, we will dive into the importance of having reliable access to electronic part data.
We specialize in democratizing electronic component data and helping engineers, designers, and buyers make better decisions faster. - Daniel Schoenfelder, head of Octopart
Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics
Show Highlights:
- Introduction. The impact of the pandemic on Octopart
- Octopart’s vision: “Democratization of Information”
- New features: BOM tool in Octopart and Altium 365
- Embeddable Experience
- Global Price and Availability
- Inventory alerts
- Comprehensive Part Data - Core User Experience
- Lifecycle on Octopart.com
- CAD Models
- Lead time
- How Octopart fits into NEXAR—underpinnings of what’s available in the supply domain
- Shortages, State of Industry—saturation and duration
- Search Volume: 20 million unique users’ search on Octopart
- Learn more about Nexar—Octopart is a core component of Nexar
- What is on the horizon?
- Centralized community—very curated and engaged user community
- Solving industry-wide problems
- Octopart.com a destination for CAD
Links and Resources:
Dan’s LinkedIn Profile
Octopart.com
EDS Show August 2021 in Las Vegas at the Mirage
Semiconductor Industry Association Website (SIA)
Podcast: What is Nexar?
Nexar Website
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Altium Website
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