IHS 4DOnline Web Services

4DOnline Web Services connects your parts database and design tools to the IHS Electronics Database, a comprehensive, managed electronic component database with more than 65 million parts from over 500 manufacturers.

Current technical, availability and compliance data is the cornerstone of product design and resource planning systems. IHS Web Services will increase the value of the tools that decision makers across the enterprise rely on at every stage of your product’s life cycle.

With 4DOnline Web Services you can:

• Enrich internal part databases
• Update component and supplier data automatically
• Reduce the cost of updating parts data and documentation

Using the Web Services Integration Framework, IHS has implemented solutions that enrich component information, perform part matching, supplier mapping, taxonomy mapping and scheduled synchronization of component information.

Benefits:

• Improve the value of decision support applications
• Maintain the currency of obsolescence and environmental compliance data
• Optimize designs for the supply chain

Who Uses 4DOnline Web Services:

Organizations responsible for product design, sourcing, quality control, manufacturing and sustainability in the aerospace, defense, electronics, medical and automotive industries.

4DOnline Web Services interfaces your product management applications directly to the IHS Electronics Database using XML web communication in HTTP via a secure connection to the IHS 4DOnline web portal.

Based on customer-defined requirements based on part numbers or categories, attributes, documentation and supplier, the data and documentation is delivered on a tailored update schedule.

IHS Electronics Database: The leading resource for current, accurate electronic component data and documentation

A team of subject matter experts using ISO Certified processes to collect and index component information from more than 500 suppliers updates the Electronics Database continuously. It is the leading resource for current, accurate component information including:

• More than 400 product categories
• Category-specific technical and package attributes
• Complete documentation including current and historical datasheets, application notes, product change notices, end of life notices, material disclosure datasheets, and certificates of compliance
• Current status and availability, lifecycle stage, last time buy and delivery dates, alert notifications, and estimated years to end-of-life forecasts
• Environmental compliance, EU and China RoHS status and exemptions, REACH substance levels, compliant replacements
• Cross-references to replacements from alternate or aftermarket suppliers
• Part transfers due to mergers and acquisitions

Current, accurate information is the key to improving decisions at every stage of a product’s life.

Access to IHS reference data in your product management tools and workflows will leverage your investment in the decision support tools.

To understand how you will benefit using IHS 4DOnline Web Services, we encourage you to download:

• 4DOnline brochure - Living With the Dynamics of Electronic Components whitepaper
• Parts Management Solutions brochure