Configuration systems can play a vital role in the process of handling different documentation types. Every product variant in a company often has its own unique documentation package, such as sales specifications, drawings, CAD files, approvals, bills of material and so on. Maintaining these different documents is often a time consuming task that has to be done by experts already burdened by other critical tasks.
Configuring text documents
A configuration system provides the possibility to overcome a challenge most IT systems fail to address: The task of maintaining hundreds and sometimes thousands of different text documents related to the different product variants in a product range. Sales specifications for instance, often contain large text passages that are shared by many documents, along with text passages and pictures that are unique to a single or few documents. Updating the same text in many different documents is often a complete waste of time, and unfortunately this job is mostly done by employees who are critical to the time-to-market for new products and customer quotes. Moreover, these tasks often fall into a no-man’s-land between the technical departments and sales or marketing departments.
A configurator can compile a document from smaller text snippets and pictures as a function of a product configuration, thus providing unique specifications to each product variant.
A text snippet is edited and maintained once in a single document, and then populated to all the different customer specific documents. Therefore, updating and maintaining text and pictures becomes an easy task, and the configurator makes it possible to modularize your documents.
Configuring Drawings & 3D Models
It is commonly known that designers and engineers spend a large part of their time on routine customization of drawings and 3D models, which entail long lead time and unnecessary administration. A configurator can be used to avoid this trend, and help increasing the productivity and efficiency within your company.
Parametric CAD design combined with a configurator has the ability to automate a lot of the workload spent in CAD systems and to generate customer specific drawings automatically, based on information from the configurator. In seconds, a configurator can generate a whole package of drawings and 3D models for a quote that would have taken days if not weeks to complete before.
Choosing Worm Development
At Worm Development we help companies to improve the way their product range is documented and presented to customers and sales representatives. We are experts in changing your portfolio of documents into a flexible and easily maintained repository of text, pictures and illustrations.
