Reliable Supply Through Your System Lifetime

End-of-Life-and-Product-Change-Notification

Dear Valued Customer:

Mini-Circuits makes every effort to maintain the life of our products to exceed the customer's system life. Product longevity is part of our commitment to quality, reliability and outstanding customer support. However, in some cases beyond our control, product change or End of Life is unavoidable, whether it be due to changes in our supply chain and/or other factors.

Mini-Circuits company policy is to maintain products for as long as possible using EOL as a last option. We are still manufacturing and selling products that were introduced more than 40 years ago.

Similarly, our policy is to avoid changes to fit, form and function that would require PCN notification, even when performance changes are seen in supplied materials. Often, such changes can be absorbed in our products by adjustments to internal design or manufacturing. We issue PCN's when such shifts cannot be accommodated. Sometimes supplier changes will affect only 1 part while in other situations they may impact a larger group of products.

Timing of PCN notifications is based on several factors, including when we receive such notice from our suppliers, when we detect a shift and our current stock situation. There are times that we can provide notification months in advance of the change, but there are also situations that arise because of conditions outside our control.

When these changes occur, we understand the impact on customers, and as such we take change management of any of our products very seriously. We treat our customers' need for advance notification with the highest importance and realize the attention to detail required in managing any such change, and we have structured our internal processes around these needs. Special part numbers (non-catalog items developed to unique customer requirements) may be advised at the time we receive a request for quote for these models. This permits us to review and advise if the PCN change has any impact on the requirement(s) that make these models special part numbers and to ensure all affected models on a tabulated customer drawing are advised at the same time.

Whenever possible, Mini-Circuits will provide a compatible replacement part to support system continuity and will notify customers of the new part number and/or data and information about lead time for qualification and production units.

Your Account Manager is your primary point of contact for any questions regarding End of Life and product change. Alternatively, you may contact PCN@minicircuits.com. Additionally, our quality and product teams are available to support you and your organization with any concerns or challenges that arise due to End of Life or product change.

Any declaration or statement that a Mini-Circuits part is not subject to planned obsolescence is (i) limited to the date that such declaration or statement is made or provided by Mini-Circuits, (ii) based on the information that Mini-Circuits currently has from its suppliers as of such date, and (iii) not intended to and does not pertain to any of the materials or sub-components contained in such part.