KM2002 - complexity, variant and value management

Ever faster product life cycles, ever more requirements on the part of the sales market, ever higher cost pressure, and additionally desired differentiation from the competition lead to ever more complex processes and to an almost infinite number of products and their variants. More and more companies lose the overview already in the development or in the construction of different products. Often, possible variants of a product and their characteristics are seen as a new product. With the holistic approach of the complexity and variant management, requirements of the market and the own production can be converted already in the planning phase to a substantial cost saving and a competition advantage. An excessive number of variants can be a cost and complexity driver in any company, not only reducing profits, but also leading to a negative contribution margin for individual products, their variants, or even the complete company.

Benefits of the KM2002 at a glance

Consistent, transparent product models

Recognize and evaluate conflicting goals within customer and product requirements

Consistent parts reuse

Use of component kits for product families

Early simulation and optimization

Early evaluation and cost estimation of product designs

Recognizing cost drivers

Further use of the data obtained through consistent interfaces

 Increase in development quality and productivity

 Distributed product development

Uniform sales information

Quantity forecasts for sales, purchasing and production

KM2002 - transparent virtualization of complex product models

Configuration modules for entering the relational knowledge between the characteristics

Quantitative dependencies (e.g.: 30% of the installed 2.6l engines have automatic transmission)

Evaluation of individual characteristics via various calculation models

Freely definable key figures via key figure editor

Display of product variance in different views including filter functions

Evaluation of all information at each node in the variant tree

Clear bar representatio of qualitative values (number of pieces, value, costs, profit) with sorting function

Management of parts lists

Construction modules for maintaining relational knowledge between characteristics and assemblies

Finding of identical parts on the basis of structural information and properties

Simulation possibilities of reengineered data sets

Extensive reports and graphical evaluations

Hyperlinks for characteristics, attributes, types and parts

Flexible import and export functions

Interfaces to ERP systems

Master data management in relational database

A complex product structure can be mapped in several sub-models and combined into one overall model

This makes it possible to map a variance of several billion variants