The Used Equipment Network, located at www.usedequip.com, lists over 55,000 pieces of available used capital equipment, mostly production equipment such as metalworking machinery, electrical switchgear, and material handling equipment. The searchable database has information on over 9,000 dealers and their inventories and provides for user entry of "wanted" and "for-sale" listings that are distributed automatically to dealers specializing in the appropriate types of equipment on a daily basis.

End users can visit the site and find available equipment in a variety of ways, based on the industry-standard UED Category System. This system has been enhanced to group categories into "Specialties" and to provide correct search criteria for each category. As an example, a search for an engine lathe results in listings being returned in the correct sequence sorted first by swing and then by center distance.

Advertisers on UEN can also control listings in the companion UED-ed magazine on the site. Dealers who have the HSI TARGET system can update the UEN system automatically, but all used equipment dealers can use the site itself to maintain their inventory listings.

In addition to displaying listings on the UEN site, the system can produce inventory pages for an individual dealer's web site at no additional cost. This means that keeping inventory up to date both places can be done with a single update.

Advertising on HSI's UEN web site is available through Used Equipment Directory. Contact Bob Scofield, UED Publisher, at 973-400-1790 or bobs@buyused.com for more information on this opportunity.