Web Site lets users design/price/order custom parts.
Press Release Summary:
Utilizing proprietary CAD software, online service provides immediate analysis, instant price quotations, and online ordering of mechanical parts via Internet. It offers various surface finishings as well as CNC milling, turning, punching, laser and wire cutting, plastic extrusion, thermoforming, tapping, bending, and injection molding. Software keeps user informed of machining limitations, provides 3D preview, and supports unlimited what-if design scenarios.
Original Press Release:
New Ground-Breaking Web Site Enables Users to Instantly Design, Price, and Order Custom Parts
Breakthrough Internet service allows companies, research labs, schools, and individuals to make custom parts for products, projects, inventions, or any use imaginable
Midland Park, NJ. January 8, 2004 ? eMachineShop today announced the pre-opening of their new online service, which enables anyone to instantly design, price and order custom parts via the Internet - the first service of its kind according to the firm. Using eMachineShop's free Computer Aided Design (CAD) software, engineers, product developers, designers, mechanics, researchers and individuals can rapidly design custom mechanical parts. The unique software provides immediate expert analysis, instant price quotations and online ordering. By simplifying the design, pricing, expert feedback, and ordering process, eMachineShop can save substantial time, effort and crucial time to market. Users can download the eMachineShop software from www.emachineshop.com < www.emachineshop.com >
The eMachineShop service currently offers CNC milling, turning, punching, laser cutting, wire cutting, plastic extrusion, thermoforming, tapping, bending, and will soon offer injection molding. Surface finishings offered include brushing, plating, powder coating, anodizing, polishing, grinding, and others. Materials offered include a broad range of metals, plastics, woods, and others.
To begin, users download eMachineShop's free CAD software. During the design process, eMachineShop's machining expert analyzes the shape, material, and finish to keep the user informed of any machining limitations - making it easy for both engineers and non-engineers to successfully design parts. A 3D preview helps visualize the final part before ordering. The instant design feedback and pricing allows users to ask unlimited "what if" design scenarios to optimize cost. Once the design is final, the part is ordered through the eMachineShop CAD software. Finished parts are sent to the customer anywhere in the world.
Prices for the service are highly competitive as the software performs several labor-intensive functions. According to the firm, parts ordered during the year-long beta test phase included: electronic panels, enclosures, signs, scientific devices, parts for airplanes, trucks, cars, motorcycles, scooters, bikes, model helicopters, parts for ocean buoys, key chain tags, optical devices, flywheels, heat shields, sensor mechanics, cameras, and electronic devices.
"Whether you are prototyping a new design or replacing an existing part, making custom machined parts is normally time consuming and costly," said eMachineShop president James Lewis. "Until now, if you wanted to create a custom part you had to make technical drawings, find a machineshop, find a way to transmit the drawing to the machine shop, discuss the design with a machinist, sift through price quotations, make several communications, and often pay more than necessary." Mr. Lewis explained, "eMachineShop is a novel solution that offers the easiest, most cost-effective way to turn ideas into real 3D parts. Whether for a new invention, a new product, or construction of a space rocket, eMachineShop can revolutionize the process."
For more information or to download the eMachineShop software, go to: < www.emachineshop.com > .
The eMachineShop Online Media Kit is at: < www.ascendpr.com >
System Requirements: Windows 98, ME, 2000, NT, or XP;
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