GlobalSpec Executive to Explore Faster Routes to Online Parts Discovery at National Manufacturing WeekTalk will focus on avoiding parts sourcing and product development pitfallsTROY, NY– (BUSINESS WIRE) – 1/21/05 – An executive from GlobalSpec, The Engineering Search Engine, has been tapped by National Manufacturing Week officials to help manufacturers understand how the Internet is re-shaping the parts discovery process and learn ways to make the Web a precise pathway – not a pitfall – to more streamlined product development. Scott Virkler, Vice President of Business Development at GlobalSpec, Inc., will examine today’s OEM parts sourcing process during his presentation, “New Passageways to Product and Engineering Data Discovery on the Web.” It will begin at 10:30 am CST on Wednesday, March 9, 2005, during the National Manufacturing Week Show at Chicago’s McCormick Place. Mr. Virkler will discuss:
His presentation will provide insight on why the Internet has essentially changed the quantity and quality of new design projects, leading to new pressures on engineers and ultimately impacting the products they design along with their employers and their company’s customers. “In just a few years,” Virkler says, “the way engineers work and the way they buy OEM products and services has changed significantly. This change is evident from design teams responsible for improving a motion sensor located in an office hallway to the reliability of a safety monitoring device used aboard the space shuttle.” Virkler will contend the parts discovery process engineers have been trained to follow has evolved from a time-consuming exercise of reading catalogs and magazines, researching in libraries and attending numerous shows to staying put at a desk and using the Internet to cut costs and speed the time-to-market. About GlobalSpec, Inc. GlobalSpec, Inc. is the leading specialized search engine and information resource for the engineering community. Engineers and technical buyers regularly use GlobalSpec in their work process to search for and locate products and services, learn about suppliers and access comprehensive technical content on standards, patents, materials properties, specifications, designs, application notes and more. GlobalSpec's trademarked search technology, SpecSearch®, allows users to search by specification more than 78 million parts in 1,200,000 product families from more than 12,500 supplier catalogs. Suppliers representing their products and services on GlobalSpec gain a comprehensive marketing program designed to promote their brand and generate, track and manage highly-qualified sales leads. Information about GlobalSpec can be found at www.globalspec.com.GlobalSpec and SpecSearch are registered trademarks and The Engineering Search Engine is a service mark of GlobalSpec, Inc. About National Manufacturing Week National Manufacturing Week is the only U.S. trade show covering the entire manufacturing process in order to speed decision-making, time to market and business results. The 2005 event encompasses eight shows and associated conference sessions in four days, including National Design Engineering, National Industrial Automation, National Plant Engineering and Facilities Management, National Enterprise IT, Aluminum USA, MicroSystems, CleanTech and EnviroTech. |
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