Too complex for ecommerce. Too slow to quote by email.
Industrial component manufacturers sell engineered parts with material grades, tolerances, and ratings that interact — a combination no standard ecommerce page can handle. A configurator with your engineering rules built in lets buyers and distributors spec valid parts themselves, and outputs BOMs, part numbers, and ERP-ready data.
The sales-engineering bottleneck
Your buyers — OEM engineers, maintenance managers, distributors — know roughly what they need. But between “roughly” and a buildable spec sit material grades, pressure ratings, thread standards, and tolerances. So every request lands on a sales engineer's desk, and your most expensive technical people spend their week answering configuration questions instead of engineering.
And when a spec slips through wrong, the cost is worse than a delayed quote: unbuildable orders, wrong parts shipped, factory re-runs, and a customer who now double-checks everything you send.
What a self-serve spec looks like
“Stainless 316, M12, 200mm, flanged, 40 bar rated”
Every option valid. Every rating checked. A part number your engineering system recognizes — generated by the buyer, in minutes.
Built for engineer-to-order reality
- A generated part number / SKU that maps to your engineering system, not a description someone has to decode.
- A BOM-ready spec: material grade, dimensions, ratings, certifications — structured data, not prose.
- CAD outputs and datasheets for the exact configuration, when your buyers' engineers need them.
- ERP-ready order data flowing into the systems you already run — no re-keying, no transcription errors.
Selling through distributors? The same tool runs white-labeled on their sites — see configurators for distribution.
Proven on hardware just as rule-bound
Access control hardware: 100+ variations of product lines, heights, fixing styles, and RAL colors, governed by strict compatibility rules — turned into the industry's first full online configurator and the client's best-performing product line at launch. See the live build. The same rules-engine approach carries straight over to valves, fittings, and engineered parts.
Questions, answered
Can it enforce our engineering rules?
That is the core of the build. Your compatibility rules, rating tables, and tolerance limits live in the rules engine: a 40-bar flange can't be paired with a 16-bar rating, an M12 thread can't be specced on a body that doesn't machine it. Unbuildable orders become impossible at the source.
Can it integrate with our ERP?
Yes. Configurations can flow into your ERP as structured order data, trigger quotes in your existing system, or push into your CRM. We've integrated with Salesforce, HubSpot, and bespoke systems. And if you're not ready, a formatted spec email to your sales engineering inbox works from day one.
Can it output BOMs and CAD?
Yes. Every configuration can compile into a bill of materials, a datasheet, and CAD outputs for the exact variant. Your buyers' engineers get documentation they can drop straight into their assemblies.
What about tolerances and material grades?
Material grades (stainless 316 vs. 304, and everything else in your line), pressure and temperature ratings, thread standards, and tolerance classes are all first-class options with rules behind them — displayed in the buyer's language, validated against your engineering constraints.
Will engineers actually trust a self-serve tool?
Engineers trust tools that respect the physics. When every combination shown is valid and the output is a proper part number with a datasheet, the configurator becomes the fastest way to get a correct answer — which is all an engineer ever wanted.
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