The product configurator allows users to use standard structures to define user-friendly parts or products. For example, suppose there is a computer as a product, you can define a standard product structure (including optional items such as display, driver, memory), and component's feature part (for example, the size and resolution of the display), as well as the features of the components. In this standard product structure, a series of all configuration information that may be derived from this product structure is included.
Product Configurator utilizes customer requirements and pre-defined configuration logic, query the standard structure of the product (standard product), and eventually generates a customized product configuration (finished product).
Product Configurator features:
1. Product Features: For the definition of components or manufactured materials, independently of the actual product itself, the one-time defined data can be applied to a very broad product configuration range. Features of the finished product In this way, the standard material describes the design information of the product.
2. Select Configuration: Optional items in finished product, such as size and colors, are defined in a standard product structure and is used as options for product configuration.
3. Constraint: Product Configurator has some provisions on how to set product parameter information, which is used to specify the relationship between product characteristics and product parameters options, describe how to handle different circumstances, and how to increase definitions and Perform the calculation of related variables.
4. Standard material data: Standard material data is defined as a standard material, is called during product and part configuration, for example, material encoding, material name, material type, material description, etc. "Static" data.
5. Standard Material List (Design BOM): Standard Material list defines a variety of possible parts combinations and options, which will be read and called when configuring finished products.
6. Standard process route: The process route information is pre-defined for the components affected by the standard materials and fixed portions. In order to be referenced as needed during the product configuration.
7. Configuration operation: Define the product structure (product structure of standard products), product configuration parameters corresponding to the standard product, after the value of the product configuration parameters, according to the user's actual needs, select a set of specific products Feature parameters, product configurators handle the dependencies and correlations between the product components in predefined rules, eventually generate a globally unique finished product code, and generate the corresponding global unique finished product configuration BOM (manufacturing BOM) and processes Route information.
8. Quote: As the result of the product configuration, the finished product coding can be quoted by the sales quotes, sales orders, inventory, transportation, design and other departments and function modules.
