ETG’s website has a new machine selector tool

Users initially select either 'Milling ' or 'Turning' machines and they are then taken to the selector page where all of the machines are listed. Users can then filter down their 'wants' by clicking/unclicking boxes down the left- hand side of the page for manufacturer, control and alignment. For the milling machines, users can also filter by table, spindles, X-axis size and axes. For the turning machines, users can filter by positioning, spindles, bar capacity and chuck size. The firm is moving into e-commerce with this filterable machine tool selector because it says the website is increasingly the first 'port of call' for new business. Buyers can even filter their options to see a 'guide price' for their choices and additionally instruct the manufacturer to build a bespoke machine suited to their application. "The machine selector tool is widely used by the leading car marque's that encourage would-be buyers to build a car for purpose" explains Martin Doyle, ETG's group sales director. "We thought the very same rules apply in a capital purchase, such as a machine tool, and as the manufacturers we represent are increasingly flexible in the way they build machines - based on modular or cellular construction - we think it is a positive move." See the machine tool selector in action for yourself at www.engtechgroup.com