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Customization vs. Configuration: Which Approach Is Best?

Customization vs. Configuration: Which Approach Is Best?

Software vendors have always sought to provide highly adaptable solutions by allowing customization. Most vendors will claim that it’s easy to customize their solutions. However, there are two different approaches. One approach involves the need to program or code (customization) and the other involves using a simple user interface that non-programmers can set up (configuration). But,...

Arena API: Connecting Key Enterprise Applications

Arena API: Connecting Key Enterprise Applications

Your business requires operating across sites, groups, time zones and processes to seamlessly go from design to shipping product to customers while communicating with suppliers and vendors next door and around the world. The critical business systems that support your business must not…

3 Tips for Reducing Single Source Component Risk

3 Tips for Reducing Single Source Component Risk

Designing with a single source part—meaning a part that is only available from a single vendor or distributor—is one of the riskiest moves an engineer can make. With all your eggs in one basket, what happens if the supplier raises prices, begins limiting component quantities or goes out of business…