Is There a Way to Avoid Lengthy Catalog Numbers?
P.J. Jakovljevic - June 22, 2007

Handling Lengthy Catalog Numbers

There are hundreds of industrial automation firms that have been suffering in silence because of the system shortcomings related to part numbers. Many of these companies are unaware that off-the-shelf, intelligent part numbers solutions exist. Even if some configurators will support intelligent part numbering, another practical limit is how large the intelligent part numbers can be, as most systems have part number limits. For example, if a product is extremely complex and requires fifty attributes to uniquely identify it, a fifty-character-long (or longer) part number can be cumbersome and impractical for buyers to handle (not to mention memorize). For that purpose, WebSource CPQ goes a step further by featuring the intelligent serialization capability...