Interactive component catalog

You are an electronics part manufacturer or distributor?

Would you love to see your range of products in a online 3D catalog?
And embedded in the component data base of TARGET 3001! PCB Layout CAD software?

First step is a SQL component data base (Example: WAGO.db) providing for each part:

• a schematic symbol
• a footprint pattern for the layout (a "package" as we say)
• and a 3D image which can be imported in step format.

Image: Mapping WAGO parts in TARGET 3001!

Any user would be able to search WAGO parts in TARGET 3001! by name or parameters.

Additionally an appearance of a WAGO icon in the parts [[Gallery|gallery] (above to the right) is possible. One WAGO icon in the gallery represents all WAGO parts. A click on it loads all of them to the window below for selection. Or better you would have a complete own WAGO gallery showing all your product lines represented each by one dedicated icon the way it is shown above. You currently see WAGO parts but sure it can be WAGO parts as well.

The interesting thing is, that you can maintain the WAGO.db completely on your own, furnishing each part at any time individually with all information you like:

• data sheet link
• ordering number
• price
• packing information,
• minimum sales quantities,
• ...

This all happens inside the TARGET 3001! software. You could offer the software in a special edition as a free download on your website and so would have a visual catalog of your parts already embedded in the component data base of a design tool. This would be a perfect way of bringing WAGO parts directly to the screens of electronics developers. TARGET 3001! can offer your parts in EAGLE format as well.

Now lets go outside TARGET 3001! to our part exchange on the web "COMPONIVERSE". Every TARGET 3001! user can upload his self drawn parts here and download parts which others have drawn. You could upload all WAGO parts here. If you would upload a completely new part here and a TARGET 3001! user searches for it locally in TARGET 3001! he would get a notice that it was found in COMPONIVERSE to download it. It is because TARGET searches locally as well as in COMPONIVERSE and any match is announced in TARGET 3001!.

Look at this montage I have done lately for WAGO parts. It is not yet implemented that way but it easily could come true since the COMPONIVERSE appearance is already working on the web. Wouldn't it be great to have WAGO on this list as well?

Image: Componiverse

How do you think about it?

For further information please contact:

Markus Friedrich

Tel.: +49(0) 6659 919 455 markus@ibfriedrich.com