Configure to Order: Turning Product Complexity into a Competitive Advantage
From Design to Delivery: Integrating PLM and CLM for End-to-End Manufacturing Excellence
Psychology: Boosting Human Capabilities with AI
Mastering Complexity in the Age of AI
Unlocking Customization Through a Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) Approach
Software in Modern Vehicle Design: Complexity & After Sales
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Manufacturers are under pressure to offer more choices without creating chaos behind the scenes. This new blog explains how Configure to Order helps teams manage customer options, engineering rules, production needs, and service requirements without treating every order like an overwhelming custom project.
Featuring insights from Henrik Hulgaard, product configuration lifecycle expert with Configit, the message is clear: product complexity can become a competitive advantage when the rules are shared, validated, and governed across the business.
Manufacturers often struggle because data is disconnected. In this video, Sigrún Ívarsdóttir, Product Manager at Configit, shares how integrating Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) can help connect engineering, manufacturing, and sales into a stronger digital thread. The conversation explores how manufacturers can align systems, data, and logic from design through delivery.
AI can support people, but only when it is designed around how humans actually work and make decisions. This short features insights from Laura Beckwith, Ph.D., from the fireside chat, GenAI Meets Determinism: Bringing Speed and Certainty to Complex Product Configuration.
AI is creating new opportunities for manufacturers, but it also raises an important question: how do you move faster while still protecting the determinism, traceability, and control that manufacturing requires?
In this fireside chat, Wilhelm Bielert, Ph.D., Chief Digital Officer and Senior Vice President at Premier Tech, explores practical steps manufacturers can take now, how to balance probabilistic AI with deterministic manufacturing needs, and the leadership mindset required to turn complexity into a competitive advantage.
The old model for production configuration still works in some cases: build a standard product, then handle exceptions one order at a time. But it breaks down when the product includes software, electronics, service commitments, greater regional requirements, and years of aftermarket responsibility, according to Johan Salenstedt, CEO of Configit and mass customization expert.
As our new blog explains, a CLM approach gives manufacturers a way to manage product flexibility without letting complexity spread unchecked across the business.
As software becomes part of the mechanical and electrical design mix, product complexity does not end at delivery. In this short, Daniel Joe Barry explains how software adds new challenges for design, configuration, and after-sales support, especially in industries like automotive. From Mastering the Complexity of Customization and Personalization.
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Configit builds configuration solutions for manufacturing companies to master the challenges of getting configurable products and services to market faster, and to sell, manufacture, and service them more effectively. Host of the 11th Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) Summit, a virtual event focused on how manufacturers can master customization complexity by establishing a strong data foundation for future growth.
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