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IHS CAPS+4D Connect

Streamline the decision-making process

Want to ensure compliance across BOMs? Want to avoid obsolescence with no alternatives?

CAPS+4D Connect is a powerful, desktop-based bill of materials (BOMs) cleansing and management tool. Combine parts research and BOM management with an ability to cross reference data, ensuring a correct choice every time. Automatically cleanse Bills of Materials (BOMs) and Approved Vendor Lists (AVLs). Using CAPSConnect+4D ensures you can:
  • Access and organize in one location
  • Simplify parts procurement
  • Consolidate work across the enterprise
  • Assure customers of quality products
  • Maintain production schedules
  • Eliminate complex IT integration
  • Benefit from automatic EOL and PCN alerts

What’s Included

Capabilities
  • Comprehensive BOM management
  • BOM cleansing
  • Lifecycle analysis
  • Risk assessment
  • Custom reports
Component Search
  • Part number and manufacturer name
  • BOM-level loading and matching
  • Document search
  • Manufacturer
  • Keyword
  • Parametric
  • Query-by-example parametric
  • Picture-to-parametric (connectors and electro-mechanical only)
Cross Referencing
  • Direct, upgrade, downgrade, similar and manufacturer-suggested replacements (semiconductors)
  • Direct replacements (passives, connectors and electro-mechanical)
  • Similar replacements (passives, connectors and electro-mechanical)
  • Mating connectors (connectors and electro-mechanical)
Component and Supplier Risk Mitigation

BOM Watch

Monitor cleansed parts in one or more BOM files or ODBC Databases for changes and alerts such as manufacturer status, lifecycle risk, lifecycle status, PCN, EOL, RoHS, last order dates, last ship dates, etc.

Custom Reporting

  • Query views
  • Status definitions
  • Web and specification views
  • Row filtering
  • Match confidence percentage
  • Sorting
  • PDFs and URLs from the CAPS+4D Connect interface
  • Save and export
  • Part number trimming algorithms to find closest matches

Industry Success Stories

Trimble Ensures Regulatory Compliance and Adequate Supplies for Tens of Thousands of Components

This provider of location-based technologies ensures compliance with complex EHS regulations as well as avoiding disruptions to its supply chain. Managers instantly find data on thousands of parts each quarter versus manually looking up each one, reducing delivery time of RoHS and REACH documentation from weeks to under 2 days – an 86% increase in efficiency.

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Texas Instruments Enhances Customer Service by Expanding its Competitive Cross Reference Capability

One of the world’s premier semiconductor companies increased the number of cross references in its parts database from 100,000 to nearly 2 million. In doing so, the company boosted results of its parts with the lowest searches by 52 percent and helped its customers find alternatives for obsolete parts so they can avoid the need to redesign products.

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Sanmina-SCI Corporation Enjoys Immediate Access to Standards 6,600 Times a Year

Many premier electronics brands rely on this global manufacturer -- with its 37,000 employees and 60+ plants across 4 continents -- to ensure that their products meet applicable quality standards and customer expectations. Its employees access standards data from their desktops 6,600 times per year, saving time and boosting efficiency.

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Media Technology Provider Supports Product Quality by Helping Employees AND Suppliers Meet Standards

One of the world’s largest cable TV, high-speed internet and telephone providers, with billions of dollars in annual revenues, meets increased customer expectations and accelerates time to market for new products and services with automated distribution of standards information to 70+ suppliers and approximately 1000 employees worldwide.

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