In today’s hypercompetitive electronics industry, manufacturers are navigating a minefield of complexity: sudden component obsolescence, shifting global compliance standards, and supply chain volatility that can grind production to a halt. Success depends on one thing—how fast and how well you can act on data.
That’s why more leaders turn to enriched, real-time component data integrated directly into their existing PLM, ERP, and design systems. With the new Accuris Parts API Gateway, which includes support for both XML and JSON, and newly available datasets for Pricing, Availability, and Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI), manufacturers have a more straightforward path toward speed, resilience, and cost-efficiency.
This isn’t just an API upgrade—it’s a strategic transformation that empowers engineering, procurement, and supply chain teams to operate from a unified source of truth, eliminating delays, redesigns, and reactive decision-making.
Why Data Depth Should Matter for Electronic Manufacturers
Modern electronics manufacturing is defined by speed, complexity, and constant change. Yet many organizations are still weighed down by fragmented systems, disconnected workflows, and data silos—bottlenecks that hinder innovation, inflate costs, and degrade overall performance.
Engineers spend valuable hours hunting for component lifecycle or compliance data. Procurement teams are forced to make sourcing decisions without access to real-time pricing or supplier risk insights. Compliance officers rely on manual audits and reactive reporting, increasing exposure to costly penalties and delays.
As explored in our recent webinar, “The Power of Integrated Content,” these challenges reflect deeper operational issues: the absence of real-time, contextual master data and the lack of seamless integration across core enterprise systems.
Consider the complexities of managing thousands of electronic components across global product lines. Without enriched master data that is current, complete, and connected, teams operate in silos—making decisions based on partial information, resulting in delays, sourcing missteps, and compliance gaps.
The ability to embed enriched component intelligence into PLM, ERP, and design environments ensures that engineering, procurement, and compliance teams share a single source of truth. This enables faster collaboration, more confident decision-making, and better responsiveness to change.
By eliminating data silos and unlocking comprehensive, real-time visibility, manufacturers can move from reactive to proactive operations—boosting product development speed, reducing redesign risks, and ultimately enhancing business performance at every stage of the lifecycle.
Introducing the Accuris Enriched Parts API Integration
The evolution of the Accuris Parts API is a testament to the growing need for robust data ingestion and integration in electronics manufacturing. This next-generation API introduces enriched datasets and flexible integration options—with support for JSON and XML—enabling manufacturers to easily access data on pricing, availability, and Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI). These datasets are designed to provide real-time insights, enabling manufacturers to make strategic decisions quickly and efficiently.
One of the standout features is the seamless embedding of real-time data into Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) systems. This application integration streamlines workflow and ensures that critical data is always at your fingertips, reducing the risk of errors and improving overall efficiency.
Incorporating extensive data sets like pricing and availability facilitates dynamic supplier comparisons and enhances sourcing flexibility. By integrating these datasets into current systems, manufacturers can streamline procurement processes, reduce delays, and strengthen their market competitiveness.
Smarter Procurement with Real-Time Pricing & Availability
Real-time market visibility for electronic components is crucial, especially when pricing and sourcing dynamics shift constantly. Procurement teams are left navigating blind—leading to overspending, sourcing delays, and risk.
With enriched pricing & availability data delivered through the Accuris Parts API Integration, manufacturers gain the real-time market intelligence they need to make confident, cost-effective decisions. This integration empowers teams to:
- Instantly compare supplier pricing and stock levels across global data sources
- Identify viable alternatives before shortages occur or lead times extend
- Reduce emergency sourcing costs, which can be up to 3x higher than planned procurement
- Align purchasing decisions with strategic margin goals, not just part availability
Instead of manually searching across multiple sources or relying on outdated spreadsheets, procurement becomes faster, more agile, and more aligned with evolving market realities.
Teams can query and retrieve pricing and availability data through a single API. This consolidated access streamlines component searching, shortens procurement cycles, and ensures stakeholders make decisions based on consistent, real-time information.
By embedding real-time data from trusted data sources directly into procurement workflows, manufacturers gain the business intelligence needed to optimize sourcing strategies, reduce lead times, and improve overall performance. With the right data at the right time, procurement transforms into a strategic advantage rather than a reactive function.
Resilience Starts with Supply Chain Intelligence
The past few years have exposed the fragility of global electronics supply chains. From natural disasters and geopolitical tensions to port congestion and regional lockdowns, disruptions have become not just more frequent but more severe. In this environment, manufacturers are realizing a hard truth: you can’t manage what you can’t see.
With Supply Chain Intelligence datasets now integrated into the Accuris Parts API, manufacturers can access enriched data to build the tools and insights they need to achieve greater visibility and resilience. By integrating this data into their platforms, manufacturers can map BOM components to corresponding fabrication, assembly, packaging, and testing sites, and model contingency plans for single-sourced or geo-sensitive components.
Supply Chain Intelligence data doesn’t just highlight vulnerabilities—it helps manufacturers act on them preemptively. During our recent webinar, Samrat Chatterjee from ABB shared how they used these insights to mitigate disruption during the global semiconductor shortage. By identifying high-risk components early, they avoided downtime and costly redesigns.
By integrating multiple data sources into a unified system enriched with curated data repositories, manufacturers unlock visibility and strategic foresight. Real-time analytics enable teams to assess risk exposure, simulate sourcing scenarios, and build continuity into every product line.
This proactive approach transforms traditional risk management into a dynamic, intelligence-driven practice—enhancing efficiency, supporting business continuity, and ensuring that resilience becomes a built-in feature, not an afterthought.
Lifecycle & Compliance: Risk Avoidance Begins at Design
Integrating lifecycle and compliance data into the product design phase is essential for avoiding redesigns due to outdated parts or non-compliance. As environmental and trade regulations like RoHS, REACH, and conflict minerals grow increasingly complex, compliance can no longer be addressed at the end of the product lifecycle. Instead, it must be designed from the beginning and embedded directly into the systems and tools engineers and procurement teams rely on daily.
The Accuris Parts API Integration delivers enriched datasets, real-time lifecycle, and compliance data that enable manufacturers to build proactive compliance into their design and sourcing workflows. By accessing standardized, curated data directly within their PLM, ERP, or design tools, teams can:
- Flag end-of-life (EOL) components early in the selection process
- Access regulatory metadata during part evaluation to ensure ongoing adherence
- Automate audit preparation and reduce the time spent on manual compliance tracking
- Maintain up-to-date, verified information across all components in use
This level of integration ensures that manufacturers access the same data and work from a single source of truth, reducing errors and improving collaboration. It also supports data governance efforts by centralizing and standardizing how compliance data is accessed and applied.
By connecting structured content from multiple data repositories—whether stored in PLM, ERP, or design platforms—manufacturers can enhance data quality, eliminate silos, and ensure that every stakeholder has access to the same reliable information.
The result is a faster, more compliant, and less error-prone product development process. With enriched lifecycle and compliance intelligence fueling smarter decisions, manufacturers can accelerate time to market, avoid costly redesigns, and turn compliance from a challenge into a strategic advantage.
Business Value & Key Benefits Across Functions
The business value of integrating enriched component data extends across various organizational functions. For engineering teams, it means faster, error-free design processes. Integrating data from different systems gives engineers a unified view of information, reducing errors and improving overall design efficiency.
Procurement teams benefit from better cost control and sourcing agility. With access to real-time data, they can make better decisions that optimize purchasing strategies and reduce costs. This integration also supports better compliance management, enabling proactive risk management and regulatory adherence, highlighting the key benefits of effective procurement practices.
Operations teams see improved continuity and fewer disruptions. By integrating real-time component data, they can anticipate and respond to potential issues before they become a threat. This holistic data ingestion and analysis approach enhances overall operational efficiency and supports long-term business strategies.
The New API Gateway: A Scalable Foundation for Digital Transformation
Introducing the new Accuris API Gateway marks a pivotal advancement in enabling digital transformation across electronics manufacturing. Purpose-built to simplify and future-proof integration, the gateway provides a single, unified access point to all enriched component datasets—including Pricing, Availability, Supply Chain Intelligence, Lifecycle, and Compliance—delivered in both XML and JSON formats.
Designed for seamless deployment within modern enterprise architectures, the API Gateway empowers manufacturers to leverage real-time, structured data within their PLM, ERP, and sourcing ecosystems. Key capabilities include:
- Support for legacy XML users, with tools and guidance for simplified migration
- Developer-friendly documentation, including ready-to-use Postman collections
- A unified schema that supports both current datasets and future enhancements
Whether modernizing legacy infrastructure or building new digital workflows from the ground up, this API delivers the flexibility, security, and structure needed to power next-generation applications.
More than just a technical upgrade, the new Accuris API Gateway serves as a scalable foundation for digital transformation and long-term digital growth—enabling manufacturers to connect enriched data with critical business processes and drive better decisions, faster.
Transform Product Development with Enriched Data
This isn’t just about APIs—it’s about empowering teams with the right data at the right time, in a format consumable by the systems they already use. Enriched component data is the connective tissue between engineering, procurement, compliance, and supply chain functions, enabling organizations to move from reactive, fragmented workflows to strategic, data-driven product development.
Manufacturers unlock a centralized source of truth by integrating raw data into internal platforms like PLM, ERP, and data warehouses. This allows for informed decisions, minimizes disruptions, and accelerates innovation cycles.
When embedded into daily workflows, enriched data helps manufacturers:
- Reduce BOM rework and last-minute part change orders
- Avoid reactive sourcing cycles and inflated emergency procurement costs
- Maintain ongoing compliance with automated regulation tracking
- Build supply chain resilience by anticipating risks before they become production blockers
Through robust data integration tools and systems—such as Accuris Parts API Integration—teams can access and analyze data from multiple sources in real time, enabling proactive choices at every stage of the product lifecycle. This technology-driven approach not only enhances product quality but also shortens the time to market, giving manufacturers the agility they need to lead in a fast-moving, high-complexity environment filled with loaded competition.
Enriched data transforms raw, siloed information into structured insights ready to power modern tools and decisions. It becomes the foundation for a more efficient, scalable, and future-ready product development strategy.