The search a specifying engineer actually runs, instead of the keyword search a directory usually offers.
Two suppliers both listing a “Diameter” of 10 are not describing the same part if one means millimetres and the other inches. Specifications are therefore defined once by the platform with a fixed unit, and each supplier maps their own axis onto one with a conversion factor. The stored value is always in the canonical unit, so a range filter compares like with like.
A fastener family carries its diameters on the variants rather than the parent, so searching a diameter finds the family through them. Unpublished variants are excluded, which means a draft size cannot make a product answer a filter it should not.
Asking for a specification a product does not carry excludes it rather than being ignored. The alternative returns parts that look qualified and are not, and nobody double-checks a spec search they trust.
A searchable directory of companies, ranked on evidence and filterable down to the parts they actually make.
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