Industry — machinery & equipment
Configurators for machinery and equipment
One product model that sales, engineering and production can all trust.
Machine builders rarely sell the same unit twice. Frame sizes, motors, guarding, interfaces and options change from order to order, and every change ripples through drawings, bills of material and production.
A product configurator captures those rules once, so that a specification made in a sales meeting is already engineered.
Typical situation
Quotations depend on a few experienced engineers, so lead times grow when they are busy or away.
The same calculations are redone for every enquiry, in spreadsheets that live on individual computers.
Errors found late — in drawings, purchasing or assembly — cost far more than they would have at the quotation stage.
What we typically configure
- Machine frames and modules with dimensional and structural limits
- Drives, motors and control options with compatibility rules
- Guarding, safety equipment and market-specific requirements
- Interfaces to conveyors, tooling and surrounding equipment
- Documentation packages: quotation text, drawings and bills of material
From enquiry to production
Sales
- Guided selection instead of free-text specification
- Only buildable combinations can be chosen
- Quotation and price generated from the same rules
Engineering
- 3D geometry and 2D drawings generated from the configuration
- Bills of material passed on to ERP
- Rules maintained in one place rather than in personal files
Platforms we use
We work closely with the RuleDesigner, DynaMaker and Elfsquad platforms. Which one fits depends on how much CAD automation, sales support and integration your product needs.
The platforms make it possible to get started quickly on a small scale, without long development times, and to scale up later as the need grows.