Welcome to IHS Component Event Management Services

This site is your portal to IHS Component Event Management services and access to information about the complete line of IHS parts research, sourcing, obsolescence management tools and services.

Component Event Management

Component Event Management encompasses all of the change management events surrounding components such as parametric changes, physical changes and chemical composition changes. These component changes have a direct impact on metrics such as time to market, inventory turns, excess and obsolete inventory and direct material costs, to name a few.

Component Event Management is a discipline that synthesizes content, software applications and business processes to provide an overall approach for business process improvement.

Impacts Many Departments, Many Relationships

Component Event Management impacts Design, Procurement, Production, Quality and Service/Repair. The multidimensional relationships between component manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers and electronic manufacturing services (outsourced manufacturing) require a single point of truth for Component Event Management.

Impacts Many Systems

Component Event Management impacts Supply Chain Systems, Product Lifecycle Management Systems, CAD Systems, Customer Relationship Management Systems and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. Data integration is one of the keys to efficient event management.

IHS Acquires PCNAlert

PCNAlert announced that it has been acquired by IHS (NYSE: IHS – www.ihs.com ), a global provider of critical technical information, decision-support tools and related services.

IHS is a leading developer of world-class component databases and applications to manage component obsolescence, and custom data services tailored to component research and sourcing needs.

The combination of PCNAlert products and services with Parts Management offerings from IHS, including the 4DOnline Parts Universe electronic component database, is as complementary as it is powerful. We are confident that IHS will provide you, our valued customers, with enhanced products and outstanding service.

We will be communicating directly with all our customers over the coming days and weeks with more details.In the meantime, please Click here to read the IHS news release.