As part of a company-wide initiative to help end users cut costs, Crouse-Hinds/Cooper, Syracuse, N.Y., recently developed its “Sound Ideas for Savings” CD-ROM.

The CD-ROM offers ideas on how to save labor, design time, and energy, cut material costs and downtime, and increase productivity when using Crouse-Hinds products. Users can access information by product category or by specific need, such as material savings, labor savings and design-time savings.

Electrical distributors can copy and paste the presentation material from the CD-ROM into their own sales presentations on the products. Dave Holloway, the company's vice president of marketing, says many of the new products recently launched have cost-saving features that electrical distributors can promote to their customers.

“Contractors and specifiers have told us that they need to control costs and increase productivity, especially during challenging economic times,” says Holloway. “We have been responding to those important customer concerns with products that save in many ways. Now this free CD will help to quickly identify product opportunities for enhanced productivity.”

One of the CD-ROM's cost-saving ideas highlights how when the company's V2PC photocell is used in a Class I, Division 2 lighting application, contractors don't have to install an additional explosion-proof enclosure. With the new products, the associated wiring, conduit, explosion-proof conduit-sealing fitting and sealing compound are eliminated, saving an estimated $138 per photocell in labor and material costs. Sound Ideas also saves distributors' customers time by directing them to the National Electrical Code sections and appropriate Crouse-Hinds catalog pages.

To get a free copy of Sound Ideas visit www.crouse-hinds.com and click on the Value Menu icon to sign up.

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