Hose company chooses online tools

A Catalog Data Solutions (CDS) product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team May 2, 2007

Catalog Data Solutions' (CDS) CDS catalogue and CDS Locator solution are helping

Gates Corporation's Worldwide Fluid Power division has adopted Catalog Data Solutions' CDS catalogue and CDS Locator solution through DesignConnect.

Hose products manufactured by Gates serve an almost endless range of applications to transfer a variety of materials, from the finest wines to various chemicals, steam, and crude oil.

Car, truck and heavy equipment engines stay cool in the harshest conditions thanks to Gates' coolant hoses.

Gates hydraulic hoses and coupling assemblies provide fluid power to agricultural, construction, coal mining, and timber harvesting markets.

"Downloads are already running at 400 a month from the over 2500 coupling and adapter CAD models of our products available from the CDS-provided online catalogue", said Todd Mueller, Manager, Business Development at Gates.

"In addition we have now added the Gates Industrial Hose catalogue, including sophisticated location and navigation for chemical hose compatibility features via the CDS Locator advanced search functionality".

"This reduces overall design time by enabling customer engineers to quickly find parts, confirm selection through CAD interrogation and download CAD models into their own system".

"We are delighted that Gates Fluid Power division has selected CDS as their partner to enable catalogue, locator and CAD downloads", said John Major, CEO Catalog Data Solutions.

"Finding the right product fast and being able to download 3D models right into your design is a key expectation of manufacturer and distributor websites".

"With many customers moving from 2D to 3D CAD systems, providing online 3D CAD model downloads often gives suppliers an earlier opportunity to have their products adopted in new designs".

"Conversely suppliers without 3D models on their website are at risk of losing customers to their competition who do offer 3D models".

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