Enabling the Digital Thread for Configurable Products

From Requirements to Maintenance: Enabling the Digital Thread for Configurable Products

A practical look on how to build a digital thread for configurable products with PwC and Configit, from the first requirement to the last service call.

Product Complexity Rarely Starts Out Looking Complex

What begins as a simple product offering can quickly grow into thousands of possible variants, driven by evolving customer requirements, regulatory demands, and business constraints. As products evolve, manufacturers need a better way to understand which decisions drive valid, compliant, and commercially viable product combinations.

One Digital Thread, From the First Requirement to The Last Service Call

In this joint PwC and Configit webinar, we explore how manufacturers can establish a Digital Thread for configurable products by connecting product models, options, dependencies, variants, and lifecycle data into a consistent and traceable framework.

At its core is a transparent and controllable solution space, a complete representation of all valid product configurations, that improves visibility, strengthens governance, supports decision-making across engineering, sales, manufacturing, and service, and identifies which lifecycle artifacts apply to a given configuration.

See It in Practice

Using a practical example, we demonstrate how explicit configuration knowledge improves consistency, enables earlier change impact analysis, reduces engineering effort, and accelerates time-to-market.

We also show how it enables AI-assisted discovery of decision models, applicability conditions, and lifecycle impacts, while supporting the transition from Engineer-to-Order (ETO) toward scalable Configure-to-Order (CTO) and hybrid CTO+ operating models by making recurring engineering decisions explicit, reusable, and governable.