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Product Configuration

Making To-Order Product Configuration Profitable

How can manufacturers take advantage of the benefits of product customization without suffering from decreased profitability? We gathered responses from 234 companies involved with to-order products and interviewed two leading manufacturers to find out how to improve product configuration. Read on or click here to download the full report with no registration required, courtesy of…

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Jim Brown - February 21, 2025 - Filed Under: eBooks, Survey Results, Published Research - Tagged With: Product Configurator, Design Automation, configurability, Configured Products, ETO, To-Order Products, MTO, Modular Products, Modular Design, Configurator Software, Engineer to Order, CTO, CPQ, Configure to Order, Product Customization, Tailored Products, Configurator, Product Configuration

Configit Configuration

An Update on Configit Configuration Lifecycle Management

I’ve had the chance to speak with Configit over the years and Michelle Boucher and I checked in for an update. Configit started as a spinoff from the IT University of Copenhagen and is a long-time player in the product configuration market. Their product, Configit ACE, is a product configuration engine that manages and executes…

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Jim Brown - October 28, 2024 - Filed Under: Insights, Insights & Activity - Tagged With: Product Configuration, Configurator, MTO, Configit, Make to Order, Virtual Tabulation, Configuration Management, Configuration Lifecycle Management, CPQ, CLM, Personalization

To Order Products

Configuration and To Order Manufacturing – Take Our Survey

How do leading companies manage their “to order” products? Tech-Clarity invites you to join a research study on how manufacturers use configurators to design, bid, and manufacture engineer-to-order (ETO) and configure-to-order (CTO) products. This survey is now closed, please see our active survey page  for more survey opportunities.    

    Jim Brown - October 1, 2024 - Filed Under: Uncategorized - Tagged With: To Order, Manufacture to Order, Engineering Configurator, Product Personalization, Technical Configurator, Product Customization, CPQ, Configuration, Assemble to Order, Configurator, Product Configuration, ETO, MTO, Engineer to Order, CTO

    What’s Happening in Engineer to Order (ETO) and Design Automation?

    Engineer to Order is a great way to increase sales and improve margins for some and a business reality for those in industries that demand products that fit into their customers’ environments. It’s also one of my favorite topics because I have seen the issue from the ERP / sales configurator side of things as well…

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    Jim Brown - July 24, 2014 - Filed Under: Clarity on PLM, Insights, Insights & Activity - Tagged With: 150% BOM, Variants, Configuration, Configurator, Options, Design Automation, ETO, MTO, Engineer to Order, Rulestream, Rules-based Design

    The Bald Truth on Platform Design in Tech4PD Episode 5

    As you have seen in the Tech4PD year in review, the consequences for losing a debate on engineering software can be severe. This time somebody shaves their head! Tough loss, that one! In this episode Chad and I discuss Platform Design and related design automation topics. Our debate is which technology should take the lead…

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    Jim Brown - January 17, 2013 - Filed Under: Clarity on PLM, Insights, Insights & Activity - Tagged With: Configuration, ETO, MTO, Modular Design, Platform Design, Dueling Analysts, Engineer to Order, Rules-based Design, Make to Order, PLM, CAD

    Webcast on Leveraging Knowledge in Engineer to Order

    Jim Brown will present his view on engineer to order (ETO) business value and best practices on the Mobilize Your Product Knowledge to Win More Engineer to Order Business webcast with Brian Grogan of Siemens PLM and Kip Alexander of Babcock & Wilcox. The presentation will discuss the business benefits and resulting complexity of customized…

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      Jim Brown - January 14, 2013 - Filed Under: Presentations & Videos - Tagged With: ETO, MTO, Customization, ATO, Engineer to Order, Engineering Knowledge, Babcock & Wilcox, Product Knowledge, Rulestream, Webcast, Complexity, Configurator

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