How Automated Parts Catalog Software Can Address Challenges Of Equipment Manufacturing Firms?

For more than a century, OEMs had only one source to look for spare parts info, and that is paper catalogue. But in modern times, digital technology has revolutionized the storage and retrieval process of data.

For OEMs, dealers and end-customers it’s been a game changer as listing and updating information manually is really painstaking and slow. Even today also, many OEMs use paper catalogue for making their product reach to the market.

Dealers placing order through manual catalogue means they are wasting time, struggling to get shipment info, customers are not satisfied and ordered parts may be out of stock, special ordering facility is not available. In simple words, digitizing the manual catalogue into digital form is the only option.

The new cloud based online parts catalogue software will make it possible for OEMs and dealer to publish the manual catalogue into digital form, see parts image, check specifications and make changes in real-time and place order online.

Of course, OEMs aren’t working with just a handful of parts, there are number of catalogues for different vehicles and assemblies. In such scenario, simply sharing a cloud network with coworkers is a good idea to increase productivity. That’s why a growing number of OEMs are turning to advanced cloud-based software like spare parts catalogue.

Advantages of Cloud-Based EPC Software

• With cloud-based spare part catalog, OEMs can easily modernize their online uploaded part list and can also edit or update it whenever required. 
• With the Intellinet, digital parts catalogue spare parts can be searched by serial number or VIN number. 
• With digital catalogue, it will be easy for a user to see spare part specifications and exploded drawings for fast identification.

If you will modernize yourself with digital technology, you will stay ahead of the competitors and will be able to maintain information easily.

Problems Of PDF Version

If a field technician needs info about any part when performing job in field, it’s not easy to get as there is no communication channel available and other then paper catalogue he doesn’t have any other way to looking for part related info.

Now, reverse the situation with spare parts catalogue on board. It will allow field technicians to look for spare parts info through mobile app or tablet and it doesn’t matter where they are present on the globe. With digital technology on board, it will be just about completing the job on time. Moreover, parts can be ordered online with the benefit of real-time shipping and tracking info.

In past few decades, manufacturing sector has gone under a tremendous change globally. Large developing economies leaped into the 1st tier of manufacturing countries, recession choked off demand and manufacturing employment fell at an accelerated rate. Still, manufacturing remains an important part of the world economy.

In the former, it provided a pathway from subsistence agriculture to raise the incomes and living standards. In the latter, it remains a vital source of innovation and making outsized contributions to research and development and productivity growth. But with the changing time, manufacturing sector has changed a lot and opportunities and challenges also changed due to this. Moreover, they can’t rely on the old methods in this digital era.

Intellinet has been continuously evolving software for making the path way easy for OEMs from more than a decade and leading OEMs have accepted Intellinet as a game changer. If you are an OEM looking to modernize your work function and stay ahead of the technology, feel free to connect with team Intellinet at, sales@intellinetsystem.com