Tag: Configuration

Getting Ready for Product Configuration Management (PCM)

Product configuration management is the capability of systematically organizing, tracking, and controlling the components of a product or multiple products, including hardware, software, documentation, and associated assets to enable quick and accurate configuration of end products, facilitate ... Read more

How to Achieve End-to-End Configuration

To us at Configit, end-to-end (E2E) configuration means the product lifecycle all the way through the following four phases: Engineering, where a product is engineered and designed. Sales, where the product is configured, priced, and sold. Manufacturing, where it gets manufactured, delivered, a ... Read more

Innovate at Scale with Enterprise Configuration

At Configit, we believe being able to quickly try things out, iteratively collaborate, analyze ‘what if’ scenarios, are keys to having a strong culture of innovation. With an outside-in perspective that is more top down from sales, rather than bottom up from engineering, can accelerate product ... Read more

Why Cutting Colors Won’t Solve Tesla’s Problem

This week’s news that Tesla is reducing exterior color options to speed up production is unfortunate for those waiting on their car, but it’s not shocking. Elon Musk has often been compared to Henry Ford, and it seems he’s taking Ford’s most famous quote to heart: “Any customer can have a car p ... Read more

The Engine Matters

My father is one of those few remaining American heroes who can build and/or fix pretty much anything. A masterful engineer without the degree. A man of necessity, not of waste. I remember distinctly as a child when my dad was planning to replace his 15-year-old truck with a new one. I remember ... Read more