Accelerating Reliable Product Configuration for B2B and B2C Manufacturers
Manufacturers are under increasing pressure to deliver highly customized products faster, with fewer errors, and across more channels. To succeed, they need reliable product configuration processes that span design, sales, manufacturing, and service.
The latest enhancements to Configit Ace® and Configit Quote® are designed to help manufacturers establish scalable, accurate configuration processes more quickly than ever before.
These new capabilities strengthen Configit’s Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) approach and make it easier for both B2B and B2C manufacturers to manage product complexity across the entire lifecycle.
At the core of Configit’s CLM approach is Configit Ace®, a powerful configuration engine that manages product configurations from early design through manufacturing, sales, and service. Using Configit’s multi-patented Virtual Tabulation® technology, Configit Ace® creates a shared source of truth for enterprise-wide product configuration data.
This centralized approach ensures that configuration rules, options, constraints, and bills of materials remain consistent and validated across systems and teams. The result is fewer errors, faster change management, and greater confidence that what is sold can actually be built and serviced.
Faster Model Creation with Generative AI
One of the most significant updates in this release is the introduction of Configit Ace® Prompt, a new generative AI-powered capability that dramatically accelerates the creation and enrichment of product configuration models.
Ace Prompt enables users to generate configuration logic using unstructured input such as Excel files, text prompts, and images. This allows both technical and non-technical users to contribute to product configuration modeling, reducing the time and effort required to establish accurate product configuration models. Manufacturers can now move from raw product information to validated product configuration models far more quickly.
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Improved Validation for Confident Product Releases
As product complexity grows, understanding the impact of configuration changes becomes increasingly difficult. This release introduces enhanced Solution Space validation capabilities in Configit Ace® that analyze configuration models, rules, and configurable bills of materials to show how changes affect what can be offered to customers.
By identifying gaps, errors, and misalignments early, manufacturers can prevent costly issues before releasing product configurations to downstream systems. This proactive validation supports zero-error configuration processes and greater confidence in product launches and updates.
Extending Value Across the Enterprise
In addition to improvements in Configit Ace®, this release includes several enhancements that help manufacturers integrate and scale configuration capabilities across their ecosystem:
- PTC Windchill Extractor
A new connector that enables fast extraction of engineering options, rules, and BOM data from PTC Windchill, making it easier to connect PLM data to the CLM foundation. - Ace Configurator for High Performance
A high-performance punch-out based on Ace Configurator that boosts performance and eliminates errors in existing CPQ systems. - Configit Quote® Usability Improvements
Enhancements to performance and usability that support a high-performance, zero-error CPQ experience that can be adapted to each manufacturer’s unique processes.
Together, these updates strengthen Configit’s ability to support manufacturers at every stage of the product configuration lifecycle. By combining a shared configuration data foundation, AI-assisted model creation, advanced validation, and deep system integration, Configit Ace® and Configit Quote® help manufacturers scale customization without sacrificing speed, accuracy, or profitability.
As manufacturers continue to embrace mass customization, digital threads, and AI-driven processes, a reliable configuration foundation becomes essential. These latest enhancements make it faster and easier to establish that foundation and turn product complexity into a competitive advantage.
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Daniel Joseph Barry is VP of Product Marketing at Configit. Dan Joe has more than 30 years of experience in engineering, sales, marketing, product management and strategy roles within IT and telecom companies.