Avnet Electronics Marketing Launches Online Design Resource Center.PHOENIX -- Online Tool Helps Design Engineers Speed Time to Revenue; Provides "Just-In-Time just-in-time - dynamic translation " Technical Expertise and Documentation Avnet Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT) is a technology B2B distributor headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. The company states on their website that:
See: New York Stock Exchange : AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. ), further demonstrated its commitment to providing "just-in-time" technical expertise to design engineers today by announcing the launch of the Avnet Design Resource Center(TM), an online tool that gives engineers streamlined access to hardware evaluation kits, development tools, and reference designs including associated product In the context of fuels and lubricants, a petroleum or chemical product used as a hydraulic fluid, corrosion preventive, liquid propellant, or specialized product, required for the operation, maintenance, or storage of military equipment. documentation to speed the electronic applications design and development cycle. The Avnet Design Resource Center also helps design engineers compare and select products best suited for their specific designs. The Avnet Design Resource Center offers kits which represent a wide range of processing and support technologies. "Avnet Electronics Marketing supports our customers by making investments in areas where they ask for help -- such as speeding development time by helping them stay up to date on a wide variety of technologies for use in their designs," said Jeff Ittel, senior vice president, Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. "The Avnet Design Resource Center is just one example of how we deliver industry-leading design chain support and world-class supply chain services to meet our customers' needs, from product concept through production." Avnet takes a "just-in-time" approach to design services -- providing technical assistance and training from development to production, and throughout the product lifecycle Product lifecycle or product life cycle is the course of a product's sales and profits over time. The five stages of each product lifecycle are product development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline. . Specifically, the Avnet Design Resource Center allows users to purchase evaluation kits and provides access to reference designs online, including supporting tools and documentation developed by Avnet and its suppliers. Tools include: --Product briefs --User and programming guides --Schematics --Builds of materials (BOM) --Erratas --Application notes --Reference designs (and supporting files, including Gerber files A Gerber File is a standard file format used by printed circuit board (PCB) fabrication houses that contains information necessary for computer controlled machines to draw exact patterns for circuit boards. for select products) --Test files --Additional documentation as needed as needed prn. See prn order. The Avnet Design Resource Center has been in beta since May of this year while the company added features and functionality to the site. With limited promotion, the tool has received approximately 200,000 page impressions and each of the 80 kits averaged 1,200 page views during the month of June. The solution complements other Avnet design chain services which include: engineering services, design tools, technical resources and technical education including Web seminars, Avnet On-Ramp Technical Sessions(TM) and Avnet SpeedWay Speedway, town (1990 pop. 13,092), Marion co., central Ind., just W of Indianapolis; inc. 1926. The Indianapolis Speedway, site of the annual Indianapolis 500 car race, is located there. There is also light manufacturing. Design Workshops(TM). "Engineering and design chain services are at the core of what we do," said Rafael Cruz, vice president of Design Services at Avnet Electronics Marketing. "In distribution, design expertise is a differentiator. Customers choose and rely on Avnet Electronics Marketing to help them reduce the time it takes to move designs from the planning stage to full-scale production, improving their time to revenue." All of the information in the Avnet Design Resource Center is carefully reviewed or created by Avnet factory trained and certified See certification. electronics engineers' with an average of 16 years of design experience. Customers can subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; receive updated versions of documentation and other materials as they are changed. Currently more than 10 suppliers are represented in the Avnet Design Resource Center, with more suppliers and products to be added in the coming months. The Avnet Design Resource Center is available at www.em.avnet.com/drc. About Avnet Electronics Marketing Avnet Electronics Marketing is the largest operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet Inc., a Fortune 500 company. Avnet Electronics Marketing serves electronic original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers in 68 countries, distributing electronic components from leading manufacturers and providing associated design-chain and supply-chain services. The group's Web site is located at http://www.em.avnet.com. Avnet enables success from the center of the technology industry, providing cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. services and solutions vital to a broad base of more than 100,000 customers and 300 suppliers. The company markets, distributes and adds value to a wide variety of electronic components, enterprise computer products and embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. subsystems. Through its premier market position, Avnet brings a breadth and depth of capabilities that help its trading partners accelerate growth and realize cost efficiencies. For fiscal year ended July 2, 2005, Avnet and the recently acquired Memec (closed July 5, 2005) generated combined revenue in excess of $13 billion in the past year through sales in approximately 70 countries. Visit www.avnet.com/. |
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