Chinese Metal Cross Reference
a copy of a few pages from Jianming Wujin Shouce listing Chinese, Russian, Japanese, USA, UK, German, France metal cross reference list.
the book which is over 1000 pages and I got from a 6 story tall massive bookstore in Shanghai a few years back is way too big to scan all of it.
the Engineering book section of the store had many many hundredths of different books on standard hardware (tools, fasteners, hardware store items) and on manufacturing with modern CNC machines and other world class technologies.
since I am an ignorant American who is illiterate in the most popular language on the planet (Chinese) I get books with lots of pictures or full of cross reference charts.
last time I sat down to tea asking a few Chinese engineers on the cost of having a custom 1/2 meter precision ground tool steel blade made I had asked it be made from W-1 or O-1 tool steel and they asked the next day if it could be made from an air hardening steel as they preferred this material as the heat treating could be done in their computer controlled electric furnace easier, faster, etc
you might want to put down the TV remote and consider doing some research on what technology is actually being used by your competition.