As was discussed briefly in Part 1, Industry Standards play a big role at Samtec. In addition to offering technical credibility and innovation, many of the standards we work with drive our current and future product designs forward. Take, for example, the three aforementioned standards… PC/104™ As members of both the Technical Work Group & Marketing Group, Samtec has taken a large role in PC/104 over the years. As one of the oldest and most recognized Embedded … [Read more...]
Industry Standards and Samtec – What They Are and Why We Are Involved (Part 1)
Cadillac vs. Ford. Fast food vs. fine dining. 24k gold vs. 25₵ plastic. The difference between all of these things: standards. Standards are what define the choices we make each and every day as to what we will invest our time and money in. But what do standards, in this case, Industry Standards, have to do with a connector company, and why are they so important to us? What is a Standard? To understand why, we first need to define what a standard is. In the … [Read more...]
A New Streamlined Sampling Experience, Plus a Better Way to Get Technical Documentation
The web team at Samtec finished 2016 with several fairly significant updates. One major application, Solutionator, was given a new streamlined sampling feature that we know you'll find extremely useful. We also rolled out the first version of the new way you'll get your full part number documentation on the website. This will cater more to modern browsers and be more consistent with the rest of our web experience. Finally, we wrapped up the first part of a major credit card checkout … [Read more...]
Check out Samtec’s Expanded and Improved YouTube Channel
As the second most popular search engine with over 1 billion users, YouTube has become a resource few can live without. Videos, live streams, blogs, and documentaries are uploaded every second by individuals, media outlets, and corporations like Samtec. New Updates Our own channel, SamtecInc, has proved to be a valuable asset to our clientele as well as newer visitors. With our newly redesigned channel, we aim to provide an even better user experience within all of our … [Read more...]
New Case Study Details Samtec’s Downloadable 3D CAD Models
Earlier this year, Samtec and CADENAS PARTsolutions collaborated on an advanced interactive catalog of 3D CAD models. The new tool assists engineers in defining and specifying any of Samtec's more than 1 trillion product models. Samtec's customers can dynamically configure, preview and download 2D/3D models in over 150 different formats. This adds speed, accuracy and flexibility to the connector selection and design process. Reducing Sample Times from 24 Hours to 24 … [Read more...]
November Web Updates to Samtec.com
November completed another solid month of web updates to Samtec.com. While there was no new application software released, we took this time to make a few key upgrades to some of our existing software to continue to enhance your user experience. Here are the major web updates for the month of November. New About Samtec Experience In this new "About Samtec" experience, we'll take you through our story, which started in 1976 with our founder Sam, and continues into today. Through the … [Read more...]
A Nerd’s Eye View Into the Search Technology Behind Solutionator 2.0
The newest version of Solutionator, our parametric search tool that allows you to design a mated set in a minute or less, has been rolling for a couple of months now on Samtec.com. As we detailed in this introductory post, Solutionator boasts several powerful features to help you design your mated set solution in under a minute, including: Multi-select dropdown filtersInstant match search capabilitiesKeyword, part number, and series matchingRange based filtersBreadcrumb history of your … [Read more...]
October Web Updates to Samtec.com
If you're a regular user of Samtec.com, October was a great month for you! We brought you some exciting new design tools, a major homepage refresh, and a couple of huge new pieces of content for you to devour. Here are the major web updates for the month of October. Solutionator 2.0 Continues to Evolve In September, we brought you the all new release of our Solutionator tool, which is a parametric search tool designed to help you design your mated connector set in a minute or … [Read more...]
How to Use Samtec’s Solutionator 2.0 Parametric Search to Find Your Mated Set Solution
In the last post on Solutionator, when we announced it's official launch on Samtec.com, we took a high level view at some of its key features. One of those features was the powerful parametric search filters that drive product matching for this tool. In this post, we'd like to take you on a deep dive of every element of these filters and how they can help you find exactly the product you need. To follow along with this post, you can pull up Solutionator 2.0 in another tab. Multi … [Read more...]
Mechanical or Digital Samples? – We got’em both!
Engineers love samples. They often choose the right pin count, pitch, stack height, orientation or other design criteria based on what they see and feel. Samtec leads the industry in providing the connector samples engineer needs in a timely manner. Our mechanical product samples assist engineers in connector selection for their design projects. Mechanical samples obviously help engineers choose standard board-to-board connectors, but what about more complex … [Read more...]