| COMPANY: | Toshiba International, Motor Business Unit |
| HEADQUARTERS: | Tokyo |
| SIZE OF COMPANY: | More than 1,000 employees; $100M-$250M in revenue |
| INDUSTRY: | Electrical equipment |
| PRIMARY PRODUCT LINE: | Low- and medium-voltage electrical motors |
| NAME OF PROJECT: | Online Parts Catalog |
| PROJECT OBJECTIVE: | To make it easier for customers to obtain motor design information and solid models, enabling them to design Toshiba motors into their products more quickly; to relieve Toshiba engineers of non-productive tasks, such as responding to customer requests for 3D solid models of motors |
| TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED: | PARTsolutions’ PARTcatalog and PARTcommunity, ProEngineer 10, AutoCAD, SolidWorks CAD tools |
| ACCOMPLISHMENTS/ROI: | Design engineers are more productive because they no longer need to respond to customer requests for 3D models and files; customers can more easily and quickly integrate Toshiba motors into their designs |