Rochester Electronics Provides a Unique Purchasing Experience Through DigiKey

Building a reliable long-term supply chain is crucial for those maintaining products and systems with active and obsolete mission-critical components. Market shortages, long lead-time events, and component obsolescence are strenuous challenges businesses face. In the current market, manufacturing companies have invested in producing products that remain incomplete while waiting for much-needed components.

Rochester Electronics provides a unique purchasing solution to extend the life of applications beyond current component availability. Despite being traditionally known for end-of-life (EOL) products and solutions, today one-third (5 billion devices) of Rochester’s in-stock inventory is active product. Over 10 billion of Rochester’s in-stock devices are classed as EOL by the original component manufacturer. Rochester offers a continuous 100% authorized source of supply to solve supply chain disruption.

Ensuring authenticity means working directly with the original component manufacturer (OCM). A common question is, “How can a business be sure Rochester ensured parts come from the OCM?”. Distributors, such as Rochester Electronics, that are AS6496-compliant with the SAE Aerospace Standard, are authorized by the OCM to provide traceable and guaranteed products with no quality or reliability testing required, as the products are directly sourced from the OCM.

Other standards, like AS6171/4, use inspections and test procedures with minimum training and certification requirements to detect suspicious or counterfeit components. This is an indication that 100% of parts are not sourced to the supplier from the OCM, but rather have passed testing to minimize, not eliminate, risk or guarantee authenticity.

It is the logical conclusion that DigiKey would partner with Rochester Electronics to further broadcast their solutions and product offerings. Businesses can be assured that any Rochester Electronics sales made through DigiKey will provide 100% authorized, traceable, and authentic components. Furthermore, Rochester Electronics ships globally and supports multiple currency options, including USD, Euro, GBP, Yen, and more.

As ever, DigiKey hopes you are as excited about this partnership as we are. Please keep your eye out for more Rochester Electronics products on our Marketplace as Rochester continues to provide more unique semiconductor solutions to satisfy your design and maintenance needs.