Who Are Our Customers or Users?

Users of ManufactureLink’s system can be divided into 2 groups:

Buyers are engineers, draftsmen, designers, purchasing officers, managers, or anyone engaged in sourcing custom manufacturing of components and assemblies made to their individual drawings and specifications. As a buyer, you benefit from our system by drastically reducing the time it takes to discover manufacturers with the capabilities you need to manufacture your components. Using ManufactureLink you have the tools you need to make confident choices as to the suitability and quality of your chosen supplier. ManufactureLink’s system facilitates and manages the entire sourcing process, leaving you more time for other value-adding activities.

Suppliers are Australian or New Zeland machine shops, jobbing shops, casting foundries, fabricators, sheet metal shops, plastics moulders and any advanced manufacturing business which produces components and assemblies to their customer's exact specifications on a job-by-job basis. ManufactureLink’s manufacturing and engineering network hosts hundreds of manufacturers providing almost every manufacturing process imaginable. Our online system provides a single source for buyers of a large variety of custom manufacturing services. Our central sourcing system and collaborative marketing methods provide suppliers with an outstanding opportunity to promote their capabilities, expertise and accreditations to their ideal audience. ManufactureLink’s system represents the most effective and cost efficient method for manufacturers to generate new business opportunities.

ManufactureLink’s system closely replicates the standard sourcing process and matches buyers’ needs with manufacturers’ capabilities quickly and efficiently. ManufactureLink’s system efficiently hosts and manages the sourcing process, and ensures that all quotes submitted by suppliers remain confidential - only the buyer is able to receive and see the submitted quotes. Our system brings all of the sourcing activities together in one location for easy management of buyers' component sourcing requirements. Our system provides many tools and features to assist both buyers and suppliers to manage their purchasing projects, manage their customers, ensure the security of drawings and documents, collaborate with other manufacturers and designers, and encourage innovative solutions to complex manufacturing problems.