Online Catalog Streamlines Customer Digital Download Experience

Milford, OH – July 13, 2010 – PARTsolutions, LLC, a global provider of 3D parts catalogs for manufacturers and enterprises, today announces the completion of the NIBCO online CAD product catalog containing over 700 products. NIBCO INC., a worldwide manufacturer of flow control products, has web-enabled its product line in a 3D CAD digital catalog in order to progressively deliver more than 1,000 configured CAD models each month to its engineer customers.

The availability of high quality product data in native CAD benefits the company’s residential, commercial construction, industrial and irrigation customers by decreasing design time and as a free service, it will also save them considerable resources.

“Enabling our customers to download the 3D CAD-native parts directly into their designs is providing them with a multitude of benefits, including time and cost efficiencies,” said William Geers, director of marketing, NIBCO, INC.  “We have selected PARTsolutions as the service provider based on their level of expertise which ultimately translates into a positive customer experience.” 

“CAD-native 3D product catalogs are rapidly becoming a critical business component for manufacturers and necessary to get their products selected, designed in and purchased,” said Rob Zesch, president, PARTsolutions. “Already a leader in their space, the added customer service and revenue benefits that NIBCO is seeing will help them continue to grow and innovate.”

PARTsolutions’ PARTcatalog technology enables companies to host their configurable product catalog on-line, making it easier for customers and prospects to “Design In” products to their designs, while business intelligence tools generate valuable sales leads and marketing.

About PARTsolutions LLC
PARTsolutions® LLC is a leading provider of PLM solutions for next generation 3D part catalog management and hosting, delivering solutions since 1992.   For large manufacturers, the PARTsolutions product suite provides centralized 3D standard part catalogs making it easy for global design teams to find, reuse, and control standard and proprietary 3D parts.  For component manufacturers, the PARTsolutions product suite provides web hosting of 3D part catalogs to increase lead generation, and to ensure that components get “designed in” to OEM products.  The PARTsolutions CAD-Native advantage provides support of over 85 native and neutral CAD and graphics formats to meet the needs of the multi-CAD supply chain.  The PARTsolutions product suite maximizes support of reuse and standardization initiatives to deliver measurable business growth through maximizing standard part reuse to get products to market faster with reduced cost.  Information about PARTsolutions can be found at http://www.partsolutions.com.

About NIBCO INC.

Founded in 1904, NIBCO INC. is a worldwide provider of flow control solutions to the residential and commercial construction, industrial, fire protection and irrigation markets. NIBCO's World Headquarters is located in Elkhart, Ind., and has 11 manufacturing plants located throughout the United States, Mexico and Poland. Visit www.nibco.com for information on NIBCO's complete line of products.