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Much more than just another connector company, Samtec is committed to providing exceptional service, quality products, and convenient design tools. We believe that taking care of our customers and our employees is paramount in how we approach our business. This belief is deeply ingrained throughout the organization, and means that you can expect exceptional service coupled with technologies that take the industry further faster.
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Introduction
In today's business environment, applications in military, aerospace, automotive, industrial, and medical technology demand high-functioning, commercial-standard interconnect solutions. The electronic systems in these applications require…
I was at one of the local electronic stores where I have bought some Wire-Wrap ® parts in the past and I wondered what if any they had left. I ended up with a boatload of 16-pin (Samtec 1 ) & 18-pin(Augat 14F3318) & 20-pin sockets (Augat 14F3320 2 ).…
Connectors Series - Part 8 - FPGA
Technological advancements have enabled more functionality and intelligence in today's electronic systems than ever thought possible. The relentless demand for higher performance and faster data rates from data centers…
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FPGAs, SoCs and related devices are increasing in functionality, density and performance. Fast growing applications range from AI and HPC to Instrumentation, Test and Measurement...
Radio Frequency (RF) is an indispensable part of day-to-day wireless communication. RF technologies enable smartphone connectivity, Bluetooth, GPS navigation, and satellite communications. These everyday RF solutions typically operate at frequencies below…
Samtec Sudden Circuits are quick-turn, highly configurable, high speed flex circuit data links that provide literally millions of design permutations with standard product lead-times and pricing. Design permutations include the choice of connector, pitch…
Samtec has expanded its popular line of .8mm (.0315”) pitch Edge Rate contact interfaces (ERM8/ERF8 Series) for board stacking applications with a new line on .5mm (.0197”) pitch. Featuring Samtec's rugged Edge Rate contacts, these systems are ideal where…
Samtec’s sales levels are growing at an unprecedented rate. Current bookings levels are 85% greater than they were one year ago and over 80% of today’s bookings are requested to ship within 30 days of the order receipt or less. Bookings and shipment levels began to spike in September of last year and because Samtec is a privately held - debt free company we were able to pull the trigger on staffing additions much faster than most of our competition. Between the months of October and February we hired 475 additional production associates, are projected to employ 200 new associates in March and another 175 associates are slated to be added in April for a total of 850 additional production associates. If bookings levels continue to grow we are ready and in position to increase our hiring goal as needed.
As most of you know Samtec is a build to order manufacturer with the shortest lead times in the industry. For the most part we have maintained a very high On-Time Delivery rate during this spike in business and have only added 1 week to our standard lead times. We have even been able to offer a fair amount of expedite flexibility as well.
Over the past couple of weeks our OTD rates have slipped a slight amount and we have lost some our expedite flexibility. Despite the current business conditions we recognize that these Service Levels are not acceptable nor what you expect from Samtec. In order to regain our OTD and expedite position we will be adding 1 week to our current standard lead times. Several products will still maintain our next day deliveries but in general our lead times on most products will be 3 to 4 weeks as compared to most of our competition who are still quoting 6 to 8 week lead times but delivering in 14 to 16 weeks. Please keep this in mind if you are experiencing extended lead times with your current supplier and would like to improve your delivery by 3 months.
