D-ref is a suite of services that Catalog, Parametrically Characterize, Define, Organize, Analyze, Image, and Link your company's parts to optimize search, find, and evaluation for Engineering, Procurement, and Production people. D-ref services are focused on achieving the following objectives for your company: (1) allowing for reduction or elimination wasteful time searching for new parts your company already uses, but does not know it, (2) provide for the ability to drive part standardization through the organization to reduce overall acquisition costs as well as overhead associated with maintaining part #'s, and (3) creation of central data portal/tool whereby multiple, disparate groups of part/product data can be linked together to create efficiencies