How does your company "spec"components
How does your company "spec"components
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Does your company create a spec for each component even if it is a "buy" "off-the-shelf" item i.e. a smd chip 1% resistor. Or do you just use the suppliers datasheets and choose sources referencing that ??
RE: How does your company "spec"components
Ideally, though, it would NICE if specs were done for each and every component, particularly with something that has a long lifetime. When parts go obsolete, it would nice to know what the desired performance was, so that substitute parts are more readily selectable.
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RE: How does your company "spec"components
So there's definitely some desire to do a better job up front, but we don't get paid for that, but we do get paid to deal with parts obsolescence.
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RE: How does your company "spec"components
I think the problem with using a manufacturer data sheet as a spec is that, a few years down the road, it's hard to determine which of the characteristics were the important ones to a particular application