Better than Paper
How Bluco customers are using our new e-Catalog to save time with 24/7 access to pricing, CAD models, and our new quote tool
If you’re a Bluco customer, we have good news for you. Register for your customer portal account and just like that, you’ll have access to pricing for any and all Bluco modular components. Wondering what sort of investment it would take to add on to an existing system? Need to create a quote, or find CAD models. The e-Catalog was created for exactly those scenarios.
Are you a Bluco customer, but haven’t registered for the customer portal yet? Register here. >
If you’ve already registered, you can access the customer portal here to see the e-Catalog. >
Launched in mid-August and gaining popularity, if you haven’t tried it out yet, now is the time. Here’s a quick summary of how you can use the e-Catalog to get work done.
1. Access to Pricing
If you’re a Bluco customer, we have good news for you. Register for your customer portal account and just like that, you’ll have access to pricing for any and all Bluco modular components. Wondering what sort of investment it would take to add on to an existing system? Or to duplicate one entirely for a second location, machine or team? This is the place to come. Here’s what you can do from the main e-Catalog screen:
- Search by current or past part number
- Filter by application, system, or category
- Bookmark any component
- Open individual component pages, including interactive 3D models, tech spec drawings, weights, descriptions and more
If you’re still a fan of old-school printed pricing catalogs, you can also order copies of any pricing catalog from the e-catalog page.
2. Access to CAD models
While access to CAD models isn’t new for our customers, the variety of choices you know have in how you’d like those models delivered is now greatly expanded. Our CAD libraries enable your engineering team to design new fixtures with your existing system to accommodate new parts or part revisions. Of course, we’re here to provide Engineering Design Services if you’d rather us handle the design. But for those that need or want CAD models, here’s what you’ll be able to do:
- Download models for an entire series
- Choose any year of available models
- Choose IGS, STEP or SolidWorks formats
- Download a set of models for any individual component
- Download as many individual components as you need
3. Access to our new quote and list tools
We’ve saved the best for last. One of the most exciting features of the new e-Catalog is the ability to create a quote anytime you need to. No matter if you’ve woken up at 3am or woken up at 6am on a Saturday morning. Just log in, put the components in your cart, and print off a quote for your purchasing department to review. This new tool is NOT an ordering tool, so go ahead and create a dream cart, or several carts to compare quotes – there is no payment information needed, and no order taken. Here’s what you can do with this feature:
- Create a cart
- Print a quote, with terms and conditions
- Save a draft quote to come back to later
- View any quote or draft you’ve created from your main dashboard
- Email us the quote when you are ready to order
