Right now, and I mean right this second… there are thousands of engineers and technical buyers searching for industrial products, components, materials, and services across hundreds of industries and thousands of product categories. The web traffic on industrial directories alone is on the order of 500,000 visits per day. Read the rest of this entry »

When industrial salespeople sign up for our site, they complete a detailed supplier profile including their products and services. Our system stores all this information in a database, and we use it to match engineering projects to the right suppliers. To show this we built some quick links to basic search pages that list this information in an easy to read way. We’re hoping by making this data accessible, our users will gain a deeper understanding of how our system works. Read the rest of this entry »

This post is meant for Technical Suppliers looking for more leads from engineers.  Data and pricing are accurate as of July 2010.  Call for details: 858-633-8158.

Industrial Interface is the number one source for qualified engineering leads posted by engineers who need to buy right now. We’ve always offered these leads at flat fee of $50 each. This is great for supplier firms or OEMs that only offer a few niche products. In contrast, Manufacturer Rep Groups, Supplier Firms, Larger OEMs and other firms that offer a broad array of products and services benefit from our monthly subscription plan offering unlimited access to leads that match their profile.

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1. Amazing periodic table. Each element has a video explaining it’s history, uses, characteristics, etc. – http://bit.ly/3fY40S
2. The humorous result of years of Intense Study and Engineering Experience http://bit.ly/1BJ8Yv
3. Twitter Lists for Nerds – engineering, science, technology, and even NASA! http://bit.ly/4jFNhI
4. Follow all the nasa twitter feeds in one list – http://bit.ly/4mIJ0z
5. My favorite engineering blog discussing innovations in rural Africa. – http://www.afrigadget.com/

Editors Pick

1. The Greatest Scientific Special of All Time: Absolute Zero, The Science of Cold. Watch it here – http://retwt.me/frCo

Globalspec is probably the most popular of all the industrial supplier listings for engineers and designers.  They boast 5 Million registered users, including engineers, purchasing agents, technicians, etc.  They have a huge supplier database, and are branded as the Engineering Search Engine.  Most other sites cater specifically to purchasing departments, although Globalspec’s offerings don’t differ much from the norm.

Highlights for Engineers and Designers

The Good

1. Globalspec has one of the largest supplier databases on the web, along with Thomasnet and Macrae’s Blue Book, and is one of the easiest supplier listing sites to navigate.
2. Globalspec maintains one of the largest engineering forums on the web.  There’s an active community of engineers helping each other with simple to very technical problems.

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A comprehensive feature on Industrial Supplier Listings

Because of the need for these listings, I am going to do a series of reviews on many of the most established ones.  There are literally hundreds, maybe thousands, of these listings scattered around the internet, but a handful have developed incredibly detailed categories, seemingly endless suppliers for each niche, and many have their own features that make them unique.

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