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One of the most important strategies of today’s industrial enterprises consists in a gradual transition from commissioned design to modular systems allowing the creation of customer-specific variants. By this means internal reutilisation effects are generated, enabling a reduction of variant diversity of up to 30% for the revision of existing products, and even up to 70% (!) for the development of new products, thus providing a substantial competitive advantage!
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These saving potentials can be increased even further by the use of product configurators.
Basically, product configurators are software solutions enabling a convenient creation of customer-specific, tailor-made products. Product generation takes place almost “at the push of a button” and can be performed even by users who are not involved in the engineering processes, e.g. your sales agents or the end customers. In contrast to product creation processes that depend on the knowledge and experience of individual persons, product configurators provide all parties involved with access to comprehensible product- and design-related information. In case of any new projects, standardised and constantly optimised modules are immediately available to your sales department and hence also to your customers. This enables you to significantly reduce your product development costs and speed up order processing.
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The Benefits
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The configuration-relevant know-how of a company is stored and managed in a central knowledge base. This saves time, safeguards your know-how and increases product quality.
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The implementation of standard processes speeds up engineering tasks and proposal preparations by factors.
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Once performed, configurations can be re-used or changed at any time.
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Increased project transparency minimises the risk of errors, limits variant diversity and reduces costs.
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The saving of the configurations allows a comparison of current projects with past projects.
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