Solutionator, our board-to-board parametric search tool, has been a staple of Samtec.com for years. This tool allows users to select a few filters and be presented with options for a mated set solution in under a minute. Users can then download models, sample, and buy products from the application. With the most recent update to the homepage of Samtec.com, we have enabled users to access the six main parametric filters of Solutionator in an easy to use widget. These filters … [Read more...]

In January 2020, we kicked off the year by improving the applications we released at the end of 2019 and made several user-experience (UX) tweaks throughout the website. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for January 2020. High-Speed Cable Builder Phase 2 UX Updates In late December we released our newest version of our High-Speed Cable Builder, which allows users to configure these products online. In January, we made a series of user-experience updates to this … [Read more...]

2019 was a fun year for Samtec.com. We're in a great place right now where we get to maintain current content and features while we're building a lot of new stuff as well. The website is becoming more mature, but still developing rapidly. If you missed it, here is a look back at the top features we released in 2019. 2020 should be equally as fun for everyone. We rounded out the year with a few significant website updates that have been active concepts for a while. Take a look at the … [Read more...]

2019 was another solid year for Samtec.com. We continued to release new content, features, and software upgrades to improve the digital experience for our web users. To kick off 2020, let's look back at some of the top features released in 2019. For a complete list of all web articles, check out the Web Updates category Login System Upgrade In the Summer of 2019, we launched the upgraded login system on Samtec.com. This upgrade replaced a nearly 10-year-old system that was in need … [Read more...]

In November, we wrapped up our technical debt cleanup, upgraded several of our back-end APIs, and rolled out several small user-experience updates throughout Samtec.com. These updates will pave the way for some exciting new applications and e-e-commerce features in 2020. Here are the major November 2019 web updates for Samtec.com. Several New SI Evaluation Kits Pages We've been working hard developing several new evaluation and development kits to speed up help development across … [Read more...]

You can now filter by various performance protocols in our Solutionator parametric search tool. These filters include Optical, Ethernet, Storage, and I/O. Try it out here: https://www.samtec.com/solutionator Just the select “Additional Filters” checkbox and then find the “Protocol Compatibility” heading, then choose your protocol. You’ll then see all matching mated sets in the results grid. This feature allows users to get a great head start on finding which mated sets will … [Read more...]

In October, we shifted our focus to working on a few small and medium-sized projects that had been on the back-burner, and also chipped away at some technical debt that had been piling up, which is nerd speak for "picking up our toys." This type of work isn't always glamorous, but it is necessary to keep a website up-to-date from a technical standpoint, and functioning as efficiently as possible for its users (that's you!). Here are the October 2019 web updates for Samtec.com Filter by … [Read more...]

One of the major reasons people love Samtec is because of our lighting fast lead times and product availability. While competitor lead-times are measured in multiple weeks or months, ours are often measured in days. Since the early 2000s, website users have always been able to go to our Pricing and Delivery page and run a lookup for a part, but we've now made this information even easier to find and have spread it around in more places throughout the website. We wrote over the summer … [Read more...]