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Most engineers assume that when a part is about to disappear, the manufacturer will tell them. That assumption no longer holds. In 2025, more than 620,000 electronic parts were discontinued. The majority went end of life with no product change notification at all. No warning, no last chance to buy,

The prototype works. The lights blink. The firmware runs. The team is celebrating. And yet the product is still months, sometimes years, away from being something a manufacturer can build at volume, at yield, at cost. This is the gap most OEMs underestimate. “Working prototype” and

Most electronic product development projects overrun on cost, schedule, or both. The single most common root cause is not a technical failure. It is a brief that was too vague, too prescriptive in the wrong places, or missing critical information about the operating environment, compliance route,

Design for Manufacturing (DFM) in PCB design refers to the practice of creating printed circuit boards that can be manufactured, assembled, and tested efficiently and reliably, without unnecessary cost or risk. While a circuit may function perfectly on paper, poor manufacturability can quickly turn

DSL Managing Director Rory Dear explains why building your proof-of-concept (POC) for new electronic product development makes

The electronics industry is at the heart of technological innovation, influencing every sector from healthcare to entertainment, energy to communication, and

PCB design is the cornerstone of modern electronics, serving as the foundation for nearly all electronic devices, from simple household gadgets to complex systems like computers and