Power and Flexibility to Product Life-Cycle Management

VariPDM is a modular and flexible product data management system, providing product life-cycle support to organisations ranging from small companies to large international enterprises.

VariPDM especially supports product family structures, which allow companies to manage mass-customised products with efficient processes in product development, product quotation and delivery, and services.

VariPDM adapts to customer requirements. The basic system covers the product data requirements of a typical small or medium-sized company. Its functionality can be extended with additional modules for production configuration, sales configuration, cost calculation and spare parts management. The dynamic data model allows a customer to modify most company-specific settings without programming. For example, it is easy to add data fields to products and to support a particular product classification scheme.

The licensing terms are flexible and competitive: a customer pays only for the required functions. VariPDM can also be deployed in a Variantum service centre and used as an ASP/SaaS application for fixed monthly fee.

Basic Functions

• Item and product structure management
• Document management and connections between documents and items
• Product life-cycle and change management
• Item classification
• Search and reporting functions, including full text search to all recorded data
• Choice between a locally installed client application and a Web-based user interface
• Open integration interfaces to other systems in a company
• Support for multilingual data and Unicode character set

Strengths

• VariPDM is a flexible and modular product data management system that grows with your company.
• The basic system is ready for use in a small or medium-sized company.
• The system can be extended with additional modules to an integrated solution for the management and configuration of mass-customised products.
• Mass-customisation is a guiding principle in the design of the system.
• The data model is flexible and expressive. No programming is needed for customer-specific data fields, item classification and new kinds of relationships between items. User interfaces automatically adapt to the modified data model.
• User interfaces are intuitive and easy to use. They can accommodate various requirements with company-wide and personal settings.
• Variantum is an agile supplier and co-operates with partners to satisfy the special requirements of its customers.
• The system scales to the requirements of companies of all sizes.

Advantages

• The inexpensive basic version of VariPDM provides effective product life cycle management to small and medium-sized companies.
• The system supports concurrent engineering and modern digital product processes.
• Product family structures speed up product development and reduce errors in product models.
• Sales configurator and production configurator automate the order and delivery processes for mass-customised products and services. Orders have fewer errors, and delivery times are shortened as a result of more efficient order-specific design processes.
• The system manages product individuals and provides reconfiguration functions. This allows a company to offer various after-sales services, such as efficient spare parts logistics, maintenance services, and product upgrades.