Electronics leadtimes shrink
Staff -- Purchasing, 3/17/2005 2:00:00 AM
The first quarter is typically weak for electronic equipment manufacturers and that sluggishness usually results in tepid component demand and short leadtimes. That was the case in February as the leadtimes for 22 of the 41 electronic components tracked monthly by PURCHASING magazine shrunk. The leadtimes for the other 19 components increased—but, for the most part, by less than two weeks.
Delivery times shrunk the most for printed circuit boards. Multilayer board leadtimes dropped from 11.2 weeks in January to 6.7 weeks in February. Double-sided board delivery times declined from 9.7 weeks to 7.7 weeks. Leadtimes for DIP switches also dropped by two weeks—from 7.0 weeks to 5.0 weeks and thick-film chip resistor delivery times declined from 6.6 weeks to 4.5 weeks. By contrast, leadtimes for MOSFETS stretched from 6.6 weeks to 7.8 weeks; 16 Mb flash memory leadtimes increased from 5.7 weeks to 7.7 weeks and leadtimes for solid-state relays went from 6.9 weeks to 8.8 weeks. Buyers can expect another month or two of shrinking leadtimes before demand picks up again.
Leadtimes are mixed
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