“Soley Studio is the ideal tool to further develop our analysis methods in an agile and visually tangible way. We are already creating more transparency in our product portfolio and can make our variant management much more efficient and effective in the short to medium term”.
Christian Gramm (Head of Chassis Systems Layout Department)
In the commercial vehicle sector, manufacturers win their customers in particular through highly customizable products. Unfortunately, this market-sided variance not only acts as a success factor, but is also the decisive driver of internal variance at the product and parts level and thus a considerable cost factor. The associated complexity can be kept in an efficient balance by modular product architectures.
Objective: Variant Efficiency
MAN is aiming to optimize its existing modular systems in the mid-term. This also involves significantly reducing complexity by identifying and reducing irrelevant variance. The establishment of a monitoring system is also intended to create the basis for tracking, evaluating and strategically managing and evaluating the influence of changes to the product portfolio over time.
The central instrument for the implementation is the variant cockpit, with whose help managers on different levels can evaluate and visualize current data from different company areas at any time at the push of a button. The analyses required for this include bills of materials and sales figures in particular.
The evaluations and diagrams defined jointly with MAN contain key figures such as the number of variants and components, the proportion of non-variable parts, unit number coefficients, exclusive parts and analyses of added and removed components and assemblies:
The solution enables continuous monitoring of modular quality, cost efficiency and product complexity in varying degrees of detail:
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