Product Configuration & Build To Order Solutions
Industry Problem
Customers and vendors struggle to communicate effectively about custom and optional product configuration choices. Models and drawings designed to give a customer the "look and feel" of a product are often based upon incorrect engineering data, built with improper materials, and do not properly reflect the final product. Outdated manual configuration processes often result in extended time to market, costly design and production mistakes, and delayed sales.
Anark Solution
Anark has developed an immersive and interactive 3D feature selection and validation solution which is customized to meet product configuration requirements for each customer. This advanced yet cost effective solution allows customers to view and customize products in interactive 3D, even before the manufacturing and fulfillment process begins to ensure they receive their products configured correctly to meet their requirements and expectations. Reduce build costs and ordering time with interactive 3D feature selection and validation framework, allowing customers to view and customize products in an immersive interactive 3D environment.
Solution capabilities
- Equipment 3D visualization: Full, High Quality 3D Interactive Equipment/Products providing an excellent overview of your products and product options.
- Kit, feature, and part selection and visualization: As parts, kits, and features are selected, they become part of the 3D Product.
- Configuration impact assessment: As features are selected the impact of those items is analyzed, like weight and cost.
- Allowable configuration rules validation: Parts and features are restricted to designed equipment configurations. Anark’s proprietary Rules Engine maintains allowable configuration integrity by accounting for variables such as weight, spatial constraints, and cost.
- Bill-of-Material output: The completed model can be used to output BOMs for Engineering and Manufacturing.
- On-demand 3D graphics and content generation: Create lightweight 3D views from your CAD data for use in your Build-To-Order application.
Use recipes for revised product design data
- Secure orders earlier in the development cycle with realistic and visually accurate representations of products or options.
- Increase customer satisfaction by allowing them to visualize, experience, and select optimal features and configurations.
- Assess configuration impact on weight, cost, and space with data-driven 3D interactive analytic applications.
- Accelerate Production Schedules: Repurpose CAD/CAM/DCC data directly into a variety of sales and marketing applications, alleviating the need for extensive design time. Directly initiate creation of Product Configurations as soon as engineering design is complete, and avoid the substantial time lag of rebuilding models for distribution.
- Decrease Design Costs: 3D product configurations can be produced directly from existing engineering CAD data, avoiding the need for time consuming and costly graphic design.
Production proven: Anark knowledge, technology, and delivery
Knowledge
Thorough understanding of customer problems and business objectives for cost effective 3D application deployment throughout the Enterprise.
Technology
Advanced 3D authoring, delivery, and data management tools and technology combined with "best of breed" industry standard products and solutions. Anark's product configuration solutions provide a cost effective bridge between 3D CAD data and interactive, realistic product configuration applications.
Delivery
Unrivaled track record for delivering successful 3D visualization & PLM solutions for the industry's most demanding and innovative customers. Anark's professional consulting team has in-depth knowledge and experience with the design, development, and deployment of cost effective, high-impact product configuration and build-to-order applications.