Luxury Automotive Manufacturer

From Coordinated to Connected Configuration Data Management
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Results Achieved.

9 Months → 10 Days

End-to-end Configuration Acceleration

Hours, Not Weeks

Validated Configuration via Automation

0

Configuration-related Stop Ships

Company Overview

Size:

Industry:

Departments that Improved:

Large

Automotive

– Engineering
– Product Configuration
– Supply Chain
– Manufacturing
– R&D

The Challenge: Complexity without Full and Instant Control

A global luxury car manufacturer faced growing product configuration challenges driven by expanding range of models and derivatives, increasing regulatory pressures, and the boom in the variety of options and packages available to customer.

Overly restrictive PLM and ERP systems, and a tangled history of IT integrations from multiple acquisitions made it difficult to understand the true complexity of their vehicles.

Existing PLM and ERP systems contained a degree of inbuilt product modeling and configuration capabilities, the breadth and scope were limited and ill-suited to support the lifecycle configuration needs of complex products.

Transformation Journey

Step-1

Streamlined Product Lifecycle Processes

By adopting a Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) approach, the manufacturer launched a large program to streamline the processes around product lifecycle management of new vehicles with the key goal of managing the configuration of vehicles from the early design phases through to ordering, delivery and maintenance.

Step-2

Replaced Separate Tools with One Solution

Previously using separate configuration technologies and feature languages, the manufacturer now uses Configit Ace®, an enterprise-grade configuration rule management solution that provides a shared source of truth for all configuration information.

Step-3

Created One Shared Source of Truth

As a result, they now have a consistent and validated set of configuration data at any point in the product lifecycle.

What Improved

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Error-Free, Trusted Configuration Data

  • By using a Configuration Lifecycle Management approach, they gain accurate and trusted configuration information throughout, with 0 errors

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Faster and More Flexible Product Configuration Modeling

  • Efficient, flexible, user-friendly and scalable modeling environment
  • Support for concurrent modeling, comprehensive testing capability, and controlled release processes

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Better Visibility and Dependency Insights

  • Understand complex dependencies between features and the buildable combinations

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Modern, Future-Ready Architecture

  • Replacement of legacy systems while continuing support of numerous downstream systems
  • Design more intelligent and scalable data structures more suited to connected vehicle technologies
  • Platform for future business initiatives, such as global website, bill of materials (BOM) validation, wire harness optimization, and more

"We moved from it taking us about 9 months to create a configuration, to be able to do a full vehicle configuration, completely validated in a 10-day period. That took feature configuration completely off the critical path."

- Director of Engineering Operations, Luxury Automotive Manufacturer

“For the second year in a row we have recorded NO Stop ships as a result of configuration errors. This has been an outstanding change, and it has brought so many benefits in an uncertain world.”

- Director of Engineering Operations, Luxury Automotive Manufacturer

“...major benefit has been the agility with which we have been able to hide unavailable specifications when faced with semi-conductor restrictions and the speed with which we have been able to then amend specifications without error.”

- Director of Engineering Operations, Luxury Automotive Manufacturer

“Since the deployment of Ace, we’ve discovered so much in terms of improved efficiency around ‘right first time’ order ability, we’ve got accuracy in terms of being able to rapidly and accurately interrogate and validate all of our data and its given us agility and the ability to operate in an agile way.”

- Technical Specialist, Product Configuration, Luxury Automotive Manufacturer

“Tasks that would have taken weeks have been turned around and validated with the use of automation in only a matter of hours with Configit Ace®.”

- Director of Engineering Operations, Luxury Automotive Manufacturer

Snapshot of the Transformation of the Luxury Automotive Manufacturer

Before

  • Siloed systems
  • Weeks-to-months cycle times
  • High risk of misconfiguration
  • Limited lifecycle traceability

After

  • Unified modeling environment
  • Days-to-hours cycle times
  • Zero configuration errors
  • Full traceability and enterprise visibility

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