{"id":1728,"date":"2016-10-05T06:41:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T13:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Teamcenter-Blog\/Rethinking-Product-Configurator-Software\/ba-p\/368083"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:44:50","slug":"rethinking-product-configurator-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/rethinking-product-configurator-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Product Configurator Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><FONT size=\"+1\">With your current product configurator strategy, can you keep up with the variability demanded by your customers and still remain profitable?<\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n<p><H4 id=\"toc-hId-1342093861\"><SPAN><STRONG><EM>For an exclusive, inside look at Teamcenter Product Configurator, register for this webinar, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/webinar\/product-variations\/58995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Strategies to Streamline Product Innovation by Managing and Optimizing Product Variations<\/A>.&#8221;<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/H4><br \/>\n<P>&nbsp;<span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline\" style=\"width: 998px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/RethinkingProductConfiguratorSoftware-1.jpg\" alt=\"RethinkingProductConfiguratorSoftware.jpg\" title=\"RethinkingProductConfiguratorSoftware.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>No matter what kind of product you make, your customers demand choices. Managing variability has often been thought of as a design problem. But the reality is that decisions are made about what products to offer long before a designer begins his work. And the implications of those decisions impact people across the entire lifecycle of the product.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>As the demand for more advanced and varied product offerings continues to rise, we\u2019ve found that companies are searching for a better solution. Take a look at this video about product configurator software <EM>inside<\/EM> PLM. You\u2019ll see we\u2019ve been thinking a lot about this too!<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed-center video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embedly-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FF0kKYB347Us%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DF0kKYB347Us&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FF0kKYB347Us%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;key=fad07bfa4bd747d3bdea27e17b533c0e&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" title=\"Video\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG><FONT size=\"+1\">What if your product configurator solution was <EM>part <\/EM>of your PLM solution rather than a standalone system?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Imagine if you could seamlessly connect all the users contributing to your product definition across the lifecycle with a single definition of variability.&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P><EM>What if your product and program managers could make decisions about what products to offer then provide that input directly to the rest of the organization?<\/EM><\/P><br \/>\n<P><EM>What if your engineers could confidently develop solutions that will work for a range of valid configurations?<\/EM><\/P><br \/>\n<P><EM>What if your manufacturing engineers could optimize assembly planning for different product variants and ensure consistency with design?<\/EM><\/P><br \/>\n<P><EM>What if you can automatically generate user manuals and documentation for specific variants?<\/EM><\/P><br \/>\n<P><EM>When a change is introduced (and they always are), what if you could accurately account for the <U>planning<\/U> and <U>execution<\/U> of that change across a wide breadth of users and data?<\/EM><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>These are just a couple examples of the power of single definition of variability across the lifecycle. And it\u2019s not a dream scenario in a far off land. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/products\/collaboration\/product-configuration-management.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Teamcenter Product Configurator<\/A>, you can do a lot of this today. And we have even more planned for the future.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG><FONT size=\"+1\">Want to know more about what product configurator capabilities inside of PLM can do for you?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Take a look at some of these resources:<\/P><br \/>\n<P><EM><a title=\"Rethinking Variability Mangement with Product Configurator Software inside PLM\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/F0kKYB347Us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Rethinking Variability Mangement with Product Configurator Software inside PLM<\/A><\/EM>&nbsp;video<\/P><br \/>\n<P><EM><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Teamcenter-Blog\/Beyond-Product-Configurator-Software-Total-Variability\/ba-p\/325559\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beyond Product Configurator Software: Total Variability Management<\/A>&nbsp;<\/EM>blog series<\/P><br \/>\n<P><EM><a title=\"Guided Product Configuration blog\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Teamcenter-Blog\/Guided-Product-Configuration\/ba-p\/297352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guided Product Configuration<\/A>&nbsp;<\/EM>blog<\/P><br \/>\n<P><EM><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/products\/collaboration\/product-configuration-management.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Product Configuration<\/A>&nbsp;<\/EM>in Teamcenter<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With your current product configurator strategy, can you keep up with the variability demanded by your customers and still remain profitable?<\/p>\n<p>  For an exclusive, inside look at Teamce&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54263,"featured_media":1732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bom-management"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/RethinkingProductConfiguratorSoftware-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}