Catalogers offer RoHS help
Jim Carbone, Executive Editor, Electronics, Purchasing Magazine -- Purchasing, 10/6/2005
It’s no secret that the Restriction on the Use of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) deadline is bearing down on the electronics industry. Many companies are working feverishly to make sure the equipment they design and build does not contain lead or the five other hazardous substances banned by the European Union initiative.
Some OEMs and electronics manufacturing services providers are struggling with RoHS and are looking for help from catalog distributors. Catalogers often provide purchasers and design engineers easy access to the latest data on which parts are compliant and which ones aren’t.
The need for up to date information about RoHS is catalog distributors’ business on the web.Catalog houses have beefed up their websites, making them easier to find part data and to purchase parts."We have 16,000 unique people accessing our website each day," says Tallentire. "That’s up from 10,000 one year ago." About 18% of customers buy on line, and in the next three years that will move to 40%, he says.Catalog distributors report that on-line buying is growing and their paper catalogs complement their websites."Actually we find that the catalog drives Internet sales and the Internet drives catalog sales," says Kevin Hess, director of marketing and business development for Mouser Electronics in Mansfield Texas. "The two work hand in hand to give customers all the information they want," says Hess.Sometimes a buyer will check out parts out in the catalog then go to Mouser’s website to compile a bill of materials and buy the parts.
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