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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

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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Samsung Saves $77 Million and Increases Market Share with Goldfire®

This electronics industry leader strengthened its position in the DVD market by designing a breakthrough solution that achieved a 38% cost reduction in components, increased reliability by 33%, increased manufacturing productivity by 38%, and expanded its intellectual property portfolio with 13 new patents.

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e2v Meets Urgent Customer Need and Protects Business by Enabling Conflict Mineral Compliance

This global technology provider helped a customer comply with conflict-mineral regulations related to 548 electronic components from 60 companies in the supply chain -- securing a £1 million contract renewal, avoiding a roadblock to future orders and preventing the loss of 2 months’ work by a key employee.

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ADTRAN, Inc. Makes Successful Transition to RoHS Compliant Products for European Market

This worldwide provider of networking/communications equipment achieved a 90%+ success rate for validating compliance with European environmental regulations while remaining on schedule for all deliveries and establishing infrastructure to ensure compliance in the other international markets it serves.

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