In 2020, mobile traffic has skyrocketed everywhere as our planet battles a pandemic. Samtec.com saw nearly double the mobile traffic in the first two quarters than it normally sees. While these levels have dropped off from their peaks in the spring, they have not returned to their pre-pandemic levels completely. It appears many mobile users have discovered the increasingly pleasant mobile experience on Samtec.com, and have been using it quite often. Here are a couple of recent updates … [Read more...]

In September 2020, we released the RF path of our new Picture Search, updated the design and data of our Discrete Wire data, rolled out a brand new design for our Application Tooling page, and worked on a variety of other areas of content on Samtec.com. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for September 2020. Upgraded Application Tooling Page Experience We offer a variety of application tooling to help you assemble your Discrete Wire, Sealed I/O, RF, and many other products that … [Read more...]

In August 2020, we rolled out a variety of content updates to Samtec.com, spent some time fortifying our Electrial Models offerings, and continued to upgrade our mobile experience. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for August 2020. New PICMG Standards Page With over 25 years of experience in embedded computing, PICMG has published 50+ Standards written by members from hundreds of companies. PICMG applications range across a variety of markets, applications, and technologies as … [Read more...]

Samtec has been selling its products online since the early 2000s, the very early days of eCommerce. We've been through a couple of shopping cart iterations since then. Before this recent upgrade, Samtec.com had been running on a cart system that was built in 2011. It worked for quite a while, but time moves fast online, so it was due for some upgrades. In July, we released a brand new version of our online shopping cart with several major upgrades. Upgraded Cart Design and … [Read more...]

In July we rolled out a major update to our Cart, added a few tweaks to the Video Search page, added several new training videos, and updated content in a variety of places. Here are the major website updates for July 2020. Upgraded and Redesigned Cart Experience You'll notice a brand new on-site Cart experience on Samtec.com. We've completely rebuilt the Cart from the ground up, using a cloud back-end and completely redesigned front end. Some additional features include: New … [Read more...]

Samtec.com includes close to 200 high-quality videos that span across a variety of categories and topics. These videos include things like recorded presentations and webinars, product features and benefits, tutorials for web tools, virtual tours of our tech centers, corporate overviews, product instructions and how-tos, and much more. Recently, we've been working on upgrading the experience in our Video Search library to make sorting, searching, and filtering through these videos easier to … [Read more...]

Since March of 2020, we have been releasing 3D interactive product explorers for many of our flagship products. We've already released these for over half a dozen products. You can check out the previous updates here: Check Out the New mPOWER™ 3D Interactive Product ExplorerSamtec Releases Six New 3D Virtual Interactive Product Explorers With this update, we've added four more. These explorers allow users to interact with a mated set sample of our products in a web-based 3D … [Read more...]

Through our Pricing and Delivery tool in My Samtec, customers could always access their customer-specific pricing by logging in and entering a part number. However that functionality came with the limitation of having to navigate to a separate part of the website to see that pricing. With this most recent e-commerce feature release, customers can now see their own customer-specific pricing right on our full product pages. This is available in a simple grid at the top right of each page, … [Read more...]