Catalog Services
These are services that can be used to electronically
find/procure parts.
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Universal Parts Center
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Arrick Robotics maintains lists
of parts and part sources sources for robotics.
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DesignInfo - Thousands of products from many
vendors of sensors and actuators,
with detailed specs.
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National Semiconductor Products Catalog
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AMP - multi-lingual catalog and
ACES subcontractor locator service.
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Pentax Product Locator
- The
Thomas Register is now on-line.
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Semiconductor Manufacturers
is a list of web resources.
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Siemens Electronics is a parameter-driven catalog
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Rolling Bearings from the
Multi-Media Handbook for Engineering Design
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The Goddard Space Flight Center Preferred Parts List (PPL)
s a compilation of high-reliability
electronic parts suitable for use in space flight applications.
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NASA Standard EEE Parts List, also known as MIL-STD-975, is the definitive list of
EEE parts that may be used on any NASA project without further approva.
(MIL-STD-975)
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Parker Industries provides a
list of their instrument connectors, information about
their hose and valve products, and a catalog of
fluid connectors.
- The DuPont
Company's Performance Lubricants Web contains over 400 pages
of scientific and engineering information on Tribology and DuPont's
Lubricants.
- The GE home page leads to
a variety of information, such as their plastics
products.
- See the
Printed Circuit Board Industrial Links
page for numerous PCB suppliers, manufacturers,
and services.
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Centerpointe has lots of low-cost electronics parts and
kits for electromechanical projects.
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Stock Drive Products/Sterling
Instrument offers FREE Drive Component Handbooks for anyone interested in designing,
building or repairing products that can range from space ships to
copying machines to medical equipment. At this site you can also
download the orthographic drawings for many of our over 55,000
off-the-shelf inch and metric components.
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Internet Patent News Service's (IPNS) WWW Patent
Searching home page can search all US patents since 1970
using the US patents Manual of Classification.
- Electronics Virtual Trade Show
offers Product/Service/Distributor location
services on-line.
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PartNet Online Catalog System at the University of
Utah Mechanical Engineering
Department is an ARPA MADE-sponsored project.
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CompoNet is the first german engineering marketplace for supplier
components. The CompoNet comprises the access to 43500 products from
7500 companies.
Aber nur auf deutsch.
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National
Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) offers some useful services such as
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Finite Element Analysis Software
is listed in Roger Young's private catalog of free, electronically
available FE software with a pointer to a page
on general FE resources, including newsgroups and
listservers.
- The Design Information Group at the University of Bristol has
developed a "Multimedia Handbook for Engineering Design
Teaching". It provides design information on a variety of subjects: :
Fasteners
Gears
Chain Drives
Steels
Plastics & Rubbers
Springs
Transmission Selection
Data book
It is aimed at undergraduate engineering students and is
designed to be a reference source.
This software is available FREE (to all UK HEI's). It
requires a 386 or better with at lease 4Mb RAM and Win 3.1
If you would like a copy please contact:
Julian Cooke
University of Bristol
Design Information Group
83 Woodland Rd
Bristol BS8 1US
email: julian.cooke@bristol.ac.uk
- A
German On-line Catalog , (Elektronisches Katalogsystem
BLOCAN), describes the
Profile-Assembly system of supplier RK ROSE+KRIEGER. These pages are
completely auf Deutsch but are an interesting real example, in
use since 1993. See also a
general description of this work and the
Department of Machine Elements and Engineering Design of the
Mechanical Engineering description (in English) of the ">
Technical University of
Darmstadt.
Special Catalogs done for an ARPA MADE Project
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Charles Petrie