Increase Lead Generation and Product Sales with next generation 3D Part Catalog Hosting

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1 Increase Lead Generation and Product Sales with next generation 3D Part Catalog Hosting

2 Competition to Get Sourced is Fierce. Finding More Customers is Mandatory. Getting Designed In is Essential. Your company is faced with strong competition when battling to get your products designed and sourced into manufacturers products. In today s design environment, manufacturers design their products using numerous 3D CAD technologies, and expect to seamlessly incorporate their suppliers product designs directly into their designs. In fact, suppliers who can make it easier for manufacturers to get supplier product information incorporated into their designs are 70-80% more likely to get sourced.aaaaa Supporting the Multi-CAD requirements of your potential customers requires endless translation of your CAD data to different CAD formats. Supplying catalogs in paper or PDF format is no longer sufficient to get on the preferred supplier list. Suppliers must make it easy for manfacturers to configure their products and download high quality product design data. But your customers and prospects use numerous different computer aided design (CAD) technologies, making it difficult to deliver your product designs in the best CAD format for each manufacturer. As a result, it is difficult to get sourced, and you re limited in the number of customers you can reach, which in turn limits your revenue potential. To make matters worse, to support the CAD requirements of more customers, you are required to translate your 3D product libraries to different CAD formats. As a result, valuable engineering time is wasted translating CAD parts to support your duplicate libraries. In addition, keeping your duplicate libraries up to date with the latest CAD versions can become a CAD management nightmare. Furthermore, if your 3D product catalog is not available for download via the web, you are forced to manually send CAD files to your customers.aaaaaaaaa

3 3D Part Catalog Hosting Get Designed In TM To increase the likelihood of getting your products sourced with more customers, PARTcatalog provides 3D part catalog hosting to enable on-line product configuration and CAD-Native downloading. PARTcatalog ensures your products will reach more customers regardless of which CAD system they use for design. As a result, PARTcatalog makes it easy for manufacturers to quickly access and incorporate your products into their designs, thereby increasing the likelihood that your products will get sourced by more manufacturers. Traditional approaches for sharing product designs like accessing product specs via PDF, or 3D geometry in a CAD file, only provide limited value to a subset of customers. PARTcatalog s next generation technology enables your 3D part catalog to provide all relevant product information to your prospects and customers through an intuitive visual web browser. In addition, your PARTcatalog will be hosted on numerous CAD portals and communities. Your web hosted PARTcatalog will provide maximum value by making it easy for all manufacturers to quickly configure and download high quality product data in their native CAD formats with confidence, while making it easy for your marketing team to track who is accessing your designs. As a result, PARTcatalog increases lead generation to help you find more customers and increase product sales, while reducing CAD support for your customers.

4 Enabling Your Digital Product Catalog The PARTcatalog Captures All Product Information The PARTsolutions product suite foundation starts with PARTcatalog for cataloging 3D standard parts and their millions of parametrically configurable options. PARTcatalog can incorporate not just 3D geometry, but parametric configuration tables, 2D drawings, attributes, spec sheets, assembly data, kinematic configuration data, and virtually any product information. The PARTsolutions Product Suite The PARTsolutions product suite provides two solutions for accessing your product catalog and delivers your product data in any native CAD format. PARTcommunity provides web-browser access to allow global manufacturers to configure and select products, and download CAD files directly to the desktop. PARTenterprise provides an integrated CADbrowser for your customers design teams to configure and select your products behind their firewall and deliver them directly to the CAD workbench.

5 Advantage: CAD-Native Support Your Multi-CAD Customers PARTcatalog is the only solution that is CAD-Native, which means your products can be configured and delivered in over 85 CAD and graphic formats and their various versions. The value is simple - CAD- Native part catalogs enable you to deliver the same high quality CAD models to all of your potential customers, regardless of which CAD system they use for design. In addition, CAD-Native product configuration helps avoid data loss and inconsistency attributed to translating data to different CAD formats. Multi-CAD - Multi-Version PARTcatalog utilizes a table-driven parametric part catalog recipe to generate parts in any native CAD format and CAD version your customer requests. The catalog naturally supports multi-cad environments, as well as forward and backward compatibility with different versions of your CAD system. Support All Customers CAD Formats Which CAD systems do your customers use? Most likely, all of the major CAD systems are being utilized by your prospects and customers. Providing your product designs in only one CAD format dramatically narrows the number of customers to which you can provide quality CAD-native data. As a result, your revenue potential is limited. PARTcatalog s ability to deliver CAD parts in any native format enables you to expand your market and reach more potential customers with the best possible model of your products for each CAD system. 3D CAD Installed Seats Market Share for Commercial Users Source: International Data Corporation High Quality Models PARTcatalog generates high quality models far superior to neutral formats such as IGES or STEP, which reduce model definition to a generic level. Once a part is configured and selected, PARTcatalog uses the Application Programming Interface (API) of any CAD system to generate the product geometry complete with full feature history and attributes like surface finish, etc, that have been defined with the part. Because PARTcatalog stores only the catalog recipe, the data footprint is tiny, such that your catalog, with billions of configurations, is delivered on a single DVD.AAAAA

6 Advantage: Single Catalog Master Automate Multi-Media Publishing The PARTcatalog single digital master enables your catalog to be published in a variety of media formats. In addition to Web Hosting your 3D Part Catalog, your catalog can be installed on stand-alone computers behind customer firewalls, or delivered to customers in an offline CD. Your PARTcatalog can also be utilized to automate the generation of your paper catalog, or corporate web product pages. The PARTcatalog single catalog master reduces the duplication required to deliver your product catalog across various media and keep it up to date, while consolidating your catalog QA process. Advantage: Global Catalog Placement Beyond hosting your 3D Part Catalog on your web sites, PARTsolutions is the only provider that delivers global catalog placement of your PARTcatalog to captive audiences around the world, including CAD portals like Autodesk and Machine Design, and Engineering Communities for all of the major CAD systems. In addition, your PARTcatalog will also be delivered in our PARTenterprise solution for major enterprise customers like Boeing, Airbus, Volkswagen, Audi, and hundreds of others.

7 Advantage: Sales Lead Dashboard Market Analysis of Your Product Downloads PARTcatalog captures and delivers all relevant marketing information for registered users of your catalog. Marketing managers can easily access all catalog user information such as name, , company, etc. and export it to PARTstatistic, Excel or other business intelligence applications to gather critical marketing information like top customers, top products, total downloads, and geographic distribution.aaaaaaaa Management can then designate product line managers or distributors to follow up with new prospects. The new global presence of your catalog will introduce your products to critical design decision makers. Advantage: Expert Catalog Development Delivering the Highest Quality Product Data To ensure the highest level of quality, PARTsolutions utilizes an in-house development team with dedicated professional catalog developers. PARTsolutions also provides on-line quality assurance tools and dedicated project management resources to monitor the progress of catalog development. The PARTsolutions team works closely with your product team to ensure that all catalogs meet your standards for product quality.

8 PARTcatalog delivers a breadth of powerful capabilities that support all configuration and cataloging requirements. Information is presented in a simple and intuitive user interface that makes it easy for both designers or non-cad users to access and find products efficiently. Any relevant product information can be integrated to the part including 2D drawings, spec sheets, standards information, or proprietary part or purchasing information. VALUE 3D Web Enable Your Product Catalog Global Access to Your Hosted Catalog Publish Your Catalog in Multi-Media Formats Automatically Eliminate CAD Translation and Support Support All Customer CAD Formats Publish Your Catalog in Numerous On-Line Engineering Communities Generate More Sales Leads and Increase Sales PARTsolutions, LLC 200 Techne Center Dr. Suite 118 Milford, OH USA Tel: +1 (513) Fax: +1 (513) info@partsolutions.com Web: Copyright PARTsolutions, LLC. All rights reserved. CADENAS, PARTsolutions, PARTcatalog, PARTenterprise, PARTserver, and PARTcommunity are trademarks of PARTsolutions, LLC. All further brand names, company names or product names are registered trademarks of their legal owners. March 2009