Octopart is a search engine for electronic components and industrial products. We help you find parts fast!
Octopart tools include:
A powerful search engine that makes it fast and easy to compare millions of components, find important technical information, quickly make component selection decisions, and purchase parts from distributors.
An easy-to-use BOM Tool where you can save BOMs and adjust them, creating a snapshot of the availability and pricing of the products you plan to use.
The Common Parts Library, a set of commonly used electronic components for prototyping, designing, and manufacturing connected device products.
The Octopart API, which powers integrations with leading design, sourcing, and manufacturing services.
An Excel Add-In, so you can view supply chain information for your BOM without leaving your spreadsheet.
A Google Docs Add-On, an open source project that allows you to connect pricing and availability information to your BOMs in Google Docs.
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Albert B.
Advanced user of Octopart
★★★★★
Quick stock and price information
What do you like best?
It is very fast to find a part number of an electronic component, and all the relevant information: stock in distributors, datasheet, price... Also, it can be used together with Altium Designer, to automatically check the availability an priced of a bill of materials of an electronic product. Also bill of materials can be uploaded directly to check for availability, stock and prices for a specific quantity.
What do you dislike?
There is nothing I dislike, I would add extra functionalities maybe, like standard fields to compare similar components and use it to find alternative part numbers when there is an obsolete one.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use it to quickly find a part number in all the available distributors, and load a BOM to have an estimation of the final product price.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Easy and fast way to find an electronic component in a distributor. Also used to see data sheets of some components.
Review source: G2.com
