TraceParts is celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the launch of its online CAD platform. A subsidiary of the Trace Group created in 1989, TraceParts started its activity by distributing DVDs containing the 3D content of a few manufacturers. At that time, the DVDs were sent by post to design offices. Today, almost 600 industrial-part suppliers have chosen the TraceParts online platform to publish their catalogs and make them available to design engineers.
In 2001, TraceParts launched its first web platform for downloading CAD files, enabling the company to expand its publishing network around the whole world. The past fifteen years have been marked by constant growth and innovation; in 2016, the TracePartsOnline.net platform had 2.5 million designers registered on the site.
Françoise PFISTER, Managing Director of SIAM RINGSPANN, shares her experience of working with TraceParts since the launch of the first online platform, “SIAM – RINGSPANN has always appreciated the responsiveness and dynamism of the TraceParts team. Working in close collaboration with their technical department, we first published the 3D plans of our freewheels, then quickly added all our standard parts: our industrial brakes, cone clamping elements, torque limiters, and couplings. We share TraceParts objective in that we want to publish the plans of our parts with as many Design Offices as possible in order to foster contact and discussion with the end users of our technical solutions. Today, TraceParts’ has created a genuine community of experts which extends all over the world. This contributes to the development of new projects and business for SIAM – RINGSPANN.”
To celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of its online CAD platform, RS Components is partnering with TraceParts in the launch of a photo competition which will take place from 1 June to 29 June 2016. The competition involves taking a photo which includes TraceParts’ special anniversary logo.
To take part in the competition:
Participants must send in a photograph which includes the 15th anniversary logo of the TracePartsOnline.net platform. Participants can take a picture of themselves or other people and settings with the 15th anniversary logo of the TraceParts platform
Participants have until 22 June 2016 to send their photos by email to the following address:
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The best photos will be published on the TraceParts Facebook page. The winning photo will be the one that obtains the most “Likes” by 29 June 2016. The lucky winner will receive a GoPro Hero4 camera!