Unfortunately not. It sounds like Bosch are discontinuing the part so it looks like my (& your) effort has been a waste of time " Bosch have told us the part is going EOL at some point and when they have the NRND on a part, they will only support parts that they can continue supplying. I don’t have an EOL date yet, but they can vary from a year or as quick (as we have seen) to a month once announced, it all depends on running business and ability to manufacturer the parts. There is nothing stopping you placing orders for volumes to cover years of production of course, but there is also a last ship date issued with an EOL. I can ask but I don’t believe Bosch will support a part they are going to discontinue. I can ask about trying to arrange time but there would be a cost associated with it, and I would have to check which site has the facilities. Most manufacturers will only deal through distributors, we do offer the buffer stock, sales, project development etc services for their products which means they focus on design and manufacture of parts so offer them a valuable service. Some do have direct accounts, mainly they are the large manufacturers like the automotive companies, but we do get odd manufacturers taking some of our big customers with a global presence direct."
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