2017

This year's winning project of the German Standard Parts Award (Deutscher Normteile Award) is an impressive example of how the use of standard parts can contribute to helping and supporting developing countries effectively. The worldwide unique transportable operation microscope from Prechtl Engineering won first place.

Daimler AG has been successfully using Strategic Parts Management PARTsolutions from the software manufacturer CADENAS since 2002. Now the design guidelines are available as a PDF document directly in PARTsolutions and links to the engineering data within Strategic Parts Management are possible.

For the fourth time now, pupils and students from technical colleges, universities and other educational facilities had the opportunity to submit their design ideas in order to compete. The winners were announced at the Motek exhibition on 11th October in Stuttgart, Germany.

Since the end of August, customers of Adolf Würth have been able to download, configure and integrate into their design various additional 3D engineering data from the sectors of furniture manufacture and woodworking via the already existing Electronic Product Catalog in 100 native formats – including numerous common BIM formats.

In order that landscape architects and planners can include the innovative Grasscalm solutions in their plans right away, they can download the 3D BIM CAD models of their products directly from the 3D CAD download portal BIMcatalogs.net by CADENAS and integrate into their plans.

The secret has been revealed: The WARR Hyperloop Team has now officially introduced its second Pod. With this Hyperloop capsule and CADENAS as a sponsor for the area of parts management, the team of students from the TU Munich will participate in the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition II in Los Angeles in August.

In July, CADENAS is publishing Version 11 of their Strategic Parts Management PARTsolutions with advanced search functions and optimized user interface.

The downloading of 3D CAD engineering data is easier and more comfortable with the new PARTcommunity 7.

Which information from the various sectors do customers actually need for their designs or product choice? Thanks to the new cooperation between CADENAS and coBuilder, the needs of the architectural sector can be met even better.

Power Jacks customers previously had to wait one full working day to receive a part in the required native CAD format. Through the new innovative online product configurator by CADENAS this has been reduced to 5 minutes.

Travelling from L.A. to San Francisco in 35 minutes can become reality with the revolutionary high-speed transport system Hyperloop. As a part of the CADENAS Industry-Forum convention two successful Hyperloop teams introduced their projects.

Planning and configuration of cable routing for systems and machines is time-consuming and complex. PFLITSCH has developed the tool easyRoute to optimize cable planning.

Samtec began a digital transformation more than 15 years ago by creating a unique library of 3D CAD models in-house. The models were built per customer request and posted online for downloading. Today Samtec’s interactive catalog of 3D CAD models is built upon CADENAS eCATALOGsolutions platform, which leads the industry with more than 700 active clients.

The 18th Industry-Forum of CADENAS GmbH welcomed over 200 national and international visitors from the areas of machine and plant engineering, electrical engineering as well as architecture, who were informed about trends and developments in Strategic Parts Management, Electronic Product Catalogs and Building Information Modeling (BIM).

The SMS group has been using the Strategic Parts Management PARTsolutions from CADENAS since 2006. As a globally operating company, SMS has the target to orient its parts management more internationally and to integrate all SMS companies worldwide with its catalog parts, manufacturers and standards into SAP by 2020.

This year's international congress of CADENAS GmbH deals with industrial 4.0. Moreover, engineers and component manufacturers can find out all about the topics of strategic parts management, electronic product catalogs and BIM from best practice lectures on trends and innovations.

For IMI Precision Engineering customer satisfaction is key and providing product information in a simple and easy to use product configurator was the best solution for their pneumatic actuator ranges. An eCATALOGsolutions Electronic Product Catalog by CADENAS was seamlessly integrated into the existing website and eShop.