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

By Alicia Orr Suman

Now the necessary information is available to engineers in an up-to-the minute format via the E-Tech catalog. All this gives SMC a competitive edge. If SMC makes a design engineer’s job easier up front, he or she is more likely to specify SMC parts for the final product. And studies show that 90 percent of the parts originally designed into a product later are used in production, note officials at TechniCon.