In the short-ish month of February, we made an update to the Samtec.com homepage, released a few new family content pages, continued updates to our new Industrial product section, began updating our website APIs, and launched a brand new domain for China users. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for February 2024. API Version Updates Samtec.com uses several APIs to access various data to run all of the useful software applications and functionality you see across the website. … [Read more...]
The Latest Bishop and Associates Update: 2024 Forecast, 2023 Review
What is the 2024 forecast for the connector industry? What happened in 2023? What markets and industries saw the most growth, or the biggest decline? Is the West still outpacing the East in terms of connector sales growth? While we're at it, what about connector prices and lead times? Every few months we speak to our friends at Bishop and Associates and they provide insights and perspective on events in the $84 billion connector industry. Here's their 2024 forecast, their 2023 year in review, … [Read more...]
Here are the January 2024 Samtec Website Updates
If you're wondering why we missed a month for the web update, it's because in January we took some time to review the previous year and just recently we shined a light on things to come next. Take a look at those two posts for things you may have missed from 2023 and things that are yet to come. Now let's get back to your regularly scheduled monthly web updates! In January, we shined more light on our ReserveĀ® program across the website, built an entirely new Industrial Automation product … [Read more...]
Need It Now? Get 1-Day Shipping With Samtec ReserveĀ®
As demand for new technology continues to evolve at a more rapid pace than ever before, eCommerce best practices all over the web have continued to evolve right along with it. Given the supply chain shifts that we've all experienced over the last few years, it has never been more important to either have inventory on hand to build products or be able to get that inventory extremely quickly when you need it. In the consumer world, if someone has to wait more than three days to have something … [Read more...]
Here Are Your top Samtec.com Website Updates From 2023
Another year has gone by, and Samtec.com continues to lead the industry and improve each and every year. From the self-service tools of My Samtec, to our award-winning 3D model download experience, to a variety of Solutionators to help you choose your Samtec products in under a minute, and everything in between, the Samtec Web team works diligently to bring you the best experience we can while you're researching for your application. In this fast-paced world, it's easy to look forward to the … [Read more...]
New Intel/Arrow AXE5-Eagle FPGA Dev Kit with Samtec Interconnects Ready to Ship
FPGAs are taking over the world, or it just seems that way. At least for readers of the Samtec blog. Samtec oftens gets questions as to whether we sell FPGAs or not. Of course we don't, but we do sell VITA 57.1 FMC and VITA 57.4 FMC+ interconnects found on just about every FPGA dev kit in the world. Samtec even offers a wide portfolio of FMC, FMC+ and optical module evaluation kits for real-time development and testing in a lab setting. So, the reader may ask, why does the Samtec blog … [Read more...]
Here are the November 2023 Samtec Website Updates
In November, we rolled out several exciting updates to the website, including a brand-new catalog, a few new content pages for newer products, an update to Samtec Reserve, and the addition of more data-driven pages in a new Samtec.com content management system. Download the New Samtec Catalog It's almost like Christmas came early with this update. We have released the 2024 Samtec Catalog for print and download. You can read more about the new catalog in this recent blog … [Read more...]
Here are the October 2023 Samtec Website Updates
In October, we continued with our imagery updates to the website and rolled out several new content pages for several new and exciting products that are being designed into some of the most powerful devices in the world. Part Number Specific Images Added to On-Site Search In the previous couple of updates, I've talked about how we have been adding part-specific images throughout the website in various places. With this month's update, we've added these images to our on-site search tool … [Read more...]
Here are the September 2023 Samtec Website Updates
In September, we made a few updates to our shopping cart, upgraded our CoC automation tools, added more emphasis on our Reserve program, and added several new content pages across Samtec.com. Here were the major updates to Samtec.com for September 2023. Shopping Cart Updates to View Mates and Part-Specific Images The provide a better research and ordering experience, we've been working on adding over 500,000 part-number-specific images to the website. These are our most popular part … [Read more...]
Manufacturing Variation: It’s Our Job To Find The Hidden Enemy
Manufacturing high-end electronics is difficult. Making a one-time sample for a demonstration or prototype can be challenging, but the real challenge is finding out how to make it consistently and in a profitable manner. That's what Aaron Tucker, Samtec's Director of Engineering - New Ventures (R&D), said during a recent presentation about the challenges of producing high-density, microminiature connectors. Most of his discussion focused on reducing manufacturing variability. I later … [Read more...]
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