An e-catalog allows SMC Corp.of America to efficiently present its complex product line to manufacturing customers.

By Alicia Orr Suman

“It was a time-consuming process,” Hoffer recalls, “because we had to define the dimensional values for each product line. It would take a fair amount of time to model up one cylinder with all of its possible configurations.”

SMC did this work with the help of SolidWorks CAD software, setting up master files that could be configured with a number of variable options, such as stroke, mounting and bore size.