COMET

COMET enables manufacturers to take a strategic approach to component and supply chain management with automated processes to:

• Organize and manage BOMs in a single, secure environment 
• Summarize exceptions and obsolescence impacts 
• Integrate access to datasheets, environmental documents, technical attributes, hazardous material content and supplier data 
• Identify alternate components and suppliers

Manufacturer’s can avoid serious obsolescence and compliance issues with component life cycle forecasts and hazardous material risk scores and determine the presence of substances on the REACH SVHC and Air Force PDSL lists.

Benefits:

• Increase the rate of new product introductions 
• Avoid costly production interruptions or re-designs 
• Improve sustainment over extended product service life

Who Uses COMET:

• Design engineers
• Product managers
• Component engineers

COMET alerts you to any impending parts issues by comparing your BOM with up-to-date information on all the parts and manufacturers contained within the IHS Electronics Database. Any changes to parts in your BOMs are highlighted on the dashboard, allowing you to react quickly and decisively.

COMET automates product management with advanced tools to

• Cleanse parts numbers and supplier names Monitor analysis and resolution status 
• Deliver daily updates for component status, PCNs and EOL Notices, GIDEP alerts, and last time buy dates 
• Generate 2-4-8 year availability forecasts 
• Output standard technical, compliance, and sourcing reports

COMET is integrated with CAPS Universe and the IHS Electronics Database of more than 100 million electronic, electro-mechanical and fasteners parts from more than 1300 worldwide manufacturers (with 500+ regularly updated and current).

CAPS Universe includes:

• Comprehensive technical and performance attributes 
• Life cycle and end-of-life forecasts 
• Hazardous substance content 
• Form-fit-function replacements 
• Datasheets 
• Change notices 
• Certificates of compliance

Updated daily to assure currency and completeness, the electronics database is normalized to enable thorough searching and cross-referencing across manufacturers.

Obsolescence issues, life cycle forecasts, PCN's, EOL Notices and GIDEP alerts are clearly indicated with potential resolutions offered by COMET in order to expedite the resolution process.

Complying with lead-free, RoHS or REACH regulations is simplified. COMET provides detailed environmental compliance data on individual parts and informs you of all parts within the BOM that are compliant or lead-free.

With COMET, you can identify potential impacts earlier

• Receive daily updates for component status, PCN, and EOL notices, GIDEP alerts, failure notices, last time buy and delivery dates, and reinstatement parts 
• Generate life cycle and hazardous material health scores based on the years to end-of-life forecast, number of active suppliers, RoHS compliance, lead-free status, and hazardous material attributes 
• Access REACH material content attributes 
• Generate 2-4-8 year availability forecasts at the assembly and part level.