Best Practice and Tips and Tricks from Mike Watkins

Octopart is the leading search engine for electronic parts. The Octopart API is used by hundreds of OEMs and EMS providers to streamline quoting, sourcing and purchasing processes. The Octopart app for PLM 360 utilizes the Octopart API to access pricing and availability information for over 20 million electronic components, right within the PLM360 interface. This week I met with the team behind Octopart and had a the chance to dig deeper... Mike: Morning Guys, great to meet you at last, so can you tell my readers a little bit about Octopart? Janine:  Hi Mike, we started building Octopart in 2007 when the founders -- physics researchers -- decided they were done with flipping through giant part supplier catalogs, and built a tool for themselves to find parts fast.  Turns out lots of other people felt the same pain and wanted to use it.   What started as a small project turned into a mission-driven company when the founders discovered that data in the electronics ...