
That way, the company says, customers can. With the needs of its customer base in mind, Motion created the catalog by starting with its broad pneumatic product offering and narrowing it down to more than 1,800 commonly ordered items organized into 13 subcategories. They are competitive for me price wise and they can get almost anything. Distributor Motion Industries has launched its first online Pneumatics Catalog. I don't know if the old Motion management got moved on or moved out, but they are all gone and it is a good place to deal with under the new management and sales staff. He is the branch manager at the Motion store now. The US Bearings sales guy I had worked with went to Motion and I kept doing business with him without any problems or drama. Motion ended up buying my US Bearings branch and shutting it down. Took a long time, but they finally withdrew the invoice. Whatever the weird part number was it didn't come up in their system and they couldn't produce a slip where anyone had signed for it. Took the invoice down there and asked them what it was. It was a couple thousand bucks and I couldn't remember ordering anything significant from them recently. Sidebar story, I got an invoice from Motion one time that just had a strange part number and no description. There was a Motion branch in town, but they were just really hard to work with and when I did have to use them their invoicing was always screwed up. I had worked with one of the guys there for years. Bearings branch was really good and my supplier of choice. I assume they survive by selling stuff to lazy purchasing agents in big plants. Sky high prices complemented by a sales staff that knows nothing about anything they're selling. Global leader in bearings, ball screws, linear guides, auto parts, & precision/industrial machinery solutions. Got them the next day.Īpplied's local branch offers the complete package for the customer. It also provides fabrication and repair services.

So I call the local MSC sales office to see if I could get a break for 20. Motion Industries is an industrial parts distributor for products including bearings, mechanical power transmission, electrical and industrial automation, hydraulic and pneumatics, process pumps, hydraulic and industrial hose and industrial/safety supplies. Any price break for buying 20 at a time? No, first price break is at 100 pcs. Can't drop ship them, so I'd still have to make a 16 mile round trip to pick them up when they came in. Another $30 or so for shipping to have them in a couple days. Electrification, Motion, Process Automation and Robotics & Discrete Automation: discover how our four business areas and the 20 divisions they comprise push. $18 apiece if ordered with a regular stock order and I could wait a week or two. Figuring MSC would be higher than anyone else, except maybe Tiffany's, I checked price at Applied. Looked in MSC catalog and they were $11 apiece. I needed 20ea 5/16 stainless spherical rod ends a couple years ago.

But they're a couple orders of magnitude better than Applied Industrial. Motion's branch here in town is passable, but not great by any means. How about another kicker to make motion's price even more ridiculous? Genuine Parts, a corporation based in Atlanta, owns both Motion Industries and NAPA.
