As the complexity of products increase and customers demand more choices and options, managing product variability gets increasingly more difficult. This makes an effective variability process across design, configure to order, and manufacturing a key business objective and a critical competitive differentiator. Today, many companies manage product variability via spreadsheets and standalone tools without digital traceability to the related design structures. These processes are manual, disconnected, highly susceptible to human error, and difficult to scale.

Aras provides product variant management as part of its Aras Innovator Platform—making it an integral part of the product’s Digital Thread. You can manage and evolve the variability model along with the development of design structures while maintaining digital traceability between the two across the entire product lifecycle. The development and evolution of product variability become a highly efficient process. You can quickly identify errors in the resulting variability when applying it to various representations of the product design.

Join Ayla Singhal, Product Manager at Aras, for a 30-minute demonstration to learn more about Variant Management, including how to:

• Define and manage product variability, using features, options, and rules

• Organize variability into a hierarchical structure so that the variability definition can be managed at each level and then combined/aggregated

• Manage configurable breakdown structures with common and variable content, based on a modular product architecture paradigm

• Apply product variability to the variable content in configurable structures

• Resolve configurable structures to specific product configurations by specifying a set of options

• Trace product variability using Digital Thread navigation