About Us

CustomPartNet's mission is to facilitate informed decision making during the product design and sourcing process. The CustomPartNet service provides no-charge cost estimation resources and educational content across a range of commonly used manufacturing processes.

Designers, students, and buyers can create cost estimates and tradeoff analyses from scratch or by starting with a similar part from our public part gallery. The part gallery contains part images and all the relevant process parameters, which can be quickly adapted to estimate the cost of a similar part. Users can also save estimates to create their own part galleries and share estimates to collaborate with colleagues.

CustomPartNet's educational content begins with process overviews and design guidelines that explore how a process works and how to design more cost effective parts. We also provide interactive tools, such as the process selector and material selector, to help identify the best process and material that are compatible with your design requirements. Lastly, the online widgets offer quick calculations to common design and manufacturing problems to save you time.

Our intent is to provide enough detail to explain the subtle, yet crucial, relationships between cost, material performance, process selection, and supplier capabilities. At the same time, we are committed to maintaining content that is easy to understand and online tools that are easy to use. We welcome any feedback from our users to ensure that we are providing the information and services that you'd like to see online.

We're glad that you visited our site and we look forward to providing you with more useful information and online tools to help you make informed decisions. Be sure to tell your colleagues about us too.