Technology Magazine December 2021 | Page 61

SMC
ETECH
base of what digital transformation needs to look like , is going to allow us to have a much higher impact across the entire organisation ,” said Loggins .
Centres of excellence SMC ’ s cloud journey - which is predominately in the SaaS space - has taken an intentional step during the past two years as they have been building cloud infrastructure . “ The goal of that private cloud infrastructure is to design the new operating models that will allow us to leverage the multi-cloud capabilities in the future , and also allow us to consolidate and provide that baseline of technology capabilities across the globe .

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SMC is expanding engineering resources by continually challenging their own innovations . The driving force is to make it easier for customers to do business with them which has inspired innovative design solutions and support in the shape of the foundation for the development and release of ETech . ETech features several easyto-use product selection methods , such as parametric selection , solutionbased selection , and a hierarchical product catalog . Once a product is configured , 2D and 3D CAD models can be downloaded and inserted into final assembly drawings . In addition , online sizing is available to ensure the right product has been selected for each application . Because ETech is internetbased , you can view and download SMC product information at any time from anywhere . ETech represents a long standing digital transformation effort as a partnership between SMC marketing departments and IT to deliver configuration support that allows customers to download 2D and 3D CAD configured parts to include in their designs . technologymagazine . com 61