Method and system for designing and ordering products for manufacture on-line

A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps of designing and ordering equipment for manufacture on-line, comprising:

• presenting a list of equipments to select for design on-line from a remote location over a computer network;
• requesting design specification information for a selected equipment from the list of equipments;
• automatically generating a drawing of the selected equipment based on the design specification information;
• updating a manufacturing database with the design specification information used for manufacturing the equipment;
• sending the drawings to a customer for approval.

A system for designing and ordering equipment for manufacture on-line, comprising:

• a client web browser that communicates over a network to a remote server to initiate design and ordering of equipment for manufacture;
• a server that requests and presents information to the client web browser, the information associated with the equipment, the server including:
• a configuration module that presents a list of equipments to design to the client web browser, the configuration module further generating equipment drawing based on the information in response to a configuration request from the client web browser,
• a mail module for transmitting the drawing over the network.