WHO WE SERVE
OEMs
Design smarter with fewer mistakes. Give your engineering teams instant access to trusted parts, application examples, and digital guidance — before costly errors hit the line.
Vendors
Scale your product expertise. Turn every distributor and sales rep into a subject matter expert with a Digital FAE (Fastener application engineer) that knows your parts better than anyone.
Distributors
Support every brand like an insider. Equip your reps with the questions, insights, and technical answers they need to become trusted partners to your OEM customers.
EV & OEM Clients
We Support Three Key Client Types Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEMs) Streamline Your Design Process and Reduce Errors
In the fast-paced world of product design, particularly in sectors such as automotive and electronics, ensuring that your team selects the right components is crucial. FES.ai provides a Digital Fastener Application Engineer (FAE) that integrates seamlessly with your existing PLM/ERP systems, offering:
Design Challenges in electric & Off-Highway Manufacturing
Many engineers lack hands-on training in mechanical joining—fasteners, torque specs, sealing requirements, and installation best practices.
Instead, they turn to vendor catalogs or "McMaster-style" guesswork, leading to one-off parts, missed standards, or costly recalls.
This knowledge gap slows down launches, bloats BOMs, and comporomises long-term serviceability.
Leverage Design Data for Cost Savings
Designers often recreate parts that already exist, just because PLM tools are outdated or clunky.
Our platform connects directly to your Catia or CAD ecosystem, letting engineers search by application need (“high shear” , “watertight” , “aluminum joint”) and match to existing approved fasteners, rivets, studs, and inserts
The result? Fewer duplicates, faster approvals, and millions saved in complexity and sourcing.
Unified Design + Procurement Support
We integrate your internal experts, veterans, and standards teams to build rules into the Digital FAE .
Think of it as a digital DFM companion that teaches while it guides— flagging torque risks, galvanic corrosion issues, or better-fit alternatives.
Over time, this evolves into a living knowledge system that supports design, supply chain, and training across platforms and locations.
By integrating FES.ai, OEMs can mitigate design errors, reduce costly recalls, and accelerate time-to-market.
White-label Digital FAE™ - Brand Experts
Vendor Brands – Fasteners to Hinges to Seals
Your experts are stretched. Your catalog’s buried. Your customers are guessing. Let’s fix that.
We build private-label digital experts for your brand and help guide your customers to technical solutions in the following ways:
Empowering Your Team: Transform every new hire, representative, and distributor into an instant Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Targeted Lead Generation: Track every visitor to your site, providing your sales and distribution teams with qualified leads.
Strategic Resource Allocation: Free up your engineering team from repetitive questions, allowing them to focus on projects that contribute to your bottom line
- Digitize your fastener catalog (PEM® studs, rivets, locknuts, inserts, etc.)
- Build truth tables for every part: when to use, when not to, and why
- Let your website (or reps) deliver technical guidance in 3 clicks—without calling engineering
Use Case Teams: App Engineers, Field Reps, Product Managers, Inside Sales
Distributors
Transform Your Sales Teams Into Experts
Your team sells thousands of products, but fastener knowledge is tribal—and scattered. FES.ai gives them instant answers at the moment of need.
📦 Rely less on vendors. Your reps shouldn’t need to call the manufacturer to explain grip range or joint types. Our tools answer those questions automatically.
⚡ Sell with confidence. Whether it’s torque, thread type, or sealing advice, our Digital FAE™ helps your reps make technically sound recommendations on the spot.
🚀 Upskill instantly. Your team becomes Subject Matter Experts overnight—capable of matching the correct insert, rivet, or bolt to the customer's application in real-time.
📈 Win trust and vendor loyalty. When your reps become technical experts, vendors want to be on your line card, and customers prefer buying from you.
Why You Should Use FES.ai
When distributors add real product expertise to their offering, they stop competing on price—and start winning on trust.
🧠 Equip every rep with a quoting + selection tool. Your sales teams (and customers) can now spec products, check fit, and generate quotes from a single interface.
🔩 Become the fastener expert, not just the middleman. With embedded logic for torque, coating, and corrosion considerations, you become the go-to source for technical guidance.
👩🏫 Train your team automatically. Our tools include onboarding modules and embedded lessons that level up new hires without needing external trainers.
