It’s no surprise that outsourcing has changed the global manufacturing landscape over the last several decades, for better or worse. Outsourcing allows manufacturers to competitively price and scale up and down quicker, but with the diminishing number of manufacturing jobs in the U.S., it has become controversial in some…

The Octopart Team: (from left) Jacob Ribnik, Andres Morey, Bryan Newbold, Sam Wurzel, Christopher Calvi, Harish Agarwal Andres Morey and Samuel Wurzel are changing the way you shop for electronic parts. Andres and Sam, who studied physics together at Brown,…

“If there’s one thing America loves, it’s power tools.” – Stephen Colbert Over 40,000 people visit the emergency room each year for table saw related injuries, and almost 4,000 of those people end up losing at least…

I’d like to take you on a journey through a world without product data exchange (PDX)—where OEMs and CMs rely on manually created print packages and zipped electronic files to share product information back and forth.Maybe this is…

Part one: setting up your internal organization for scaling success Success often strikes when you least expect it, and when it does, will you be ready? This blog series will help you determine whether your…

Our recent series on intelligent vs. non-intelligent part numbering schemes, prompted many of you to weigh in and share your own experiences on the topic. And we were pleasantly surprised to receive such a wide variety of…

If you’re part of an organization that’s scaling to production, we’ve got you covered with our scalable cloud PLM solution. But what if you’re just starting out? You need to capture…

A couple of weeks ago I shared some big picture questions to ask when launching a new product.While a lot of the big picture questions (like, how much do we expect to make from this product, why are…