Jeff Nosek is executive vice president of Motor Information Systems, a supplier of automotive data in suburban Detroit. Automotive service and the sale of original equipment-branded parts are ...

Finding the JLCPCB component parts library frustrating to navigate, [Jan Mrázek] took matters into his own hands and made an open-source parametric search utility. We’ve all probably wasted time ...

The battle of the electronics parts databases is about to get far more competitive, driven partly by the demand for better information, partly by the growing technical capabilities of the databases, ...

How reliable are your systems? Do you know the failure rate of your subsystem or components and how that affects your system? An often overlooked aspect of failure rates involves the nonelectronic ...

3D printing has come a long way from its origins as a novelty item creator to a high-performance machine for creating complex and intricate parts. Thanks to the advent of Industry 4.0 and the ...

The automotive industry is evolving, but beyond innovations like self-driving cars, AI is becoming an essential tool for auto parts manufacturers and retailers. Currently, the industry faces a ...

Parts databases for the electronics industry may be the best way to find parts and to get details about them, but they're also remarkably incomplete, or just plain wrong. Even at 95 percent ...