Locating the Right Fasteners Can Be an Expensive Process
Aviation and aerospace companies are faced with finding ways to minimize unnecessary excess parts in inventory and increase reuse of common parts when designing products. Generally referred to as parts management, solving these challenges can directly equate to significant, recurring costs savings for companies.
In the past, the research and specification of standard fasteners was a cumbersome and inefficient process. Engineers were required to individually navigate every specification in order to identify a fastener for each new design, system redesign or repair. Each individual specification could reference thousands of different configurations that needed to be evaluated for conformance with the original design.
Where processes for the identification, specification and procurement of parts used in products are inefficient, engineering cycles are prolonged. Without a way to create an efficient internal system around these processes, engineers frustratingly waste time searching for parts, potentially introducing duplicate parts, unnecessarily increasing inventory and the costs associated with it.
IHS Fasteners eCatalog™ Effectively Streamlines This Process
The IHS Fasteners eCatalog is a unique engineering-oriented research tool. Standard fasteners from industry and military specifications are combined into a single, part-based research tool. Each discrete part can be searched by source document number or full-orderable standard part numbers as well as by normalized parametric details. This enhanced searching offers the greater benefit of finding the exact industry standard part number and evaluating potential alternates and mating in a single search.
The IHS Fasteners eCatalog was designed in alliance with the Aerospace Industries Association in order to help design engineers find the correct fasteners for their designs in a matter of just a few clicks, eliminating manual searches that can take hours, days or even weeks.