- Simple capture of business rules with a click of the mouse: designed for non-technical users – no programming skills required
- Option: authorizations and restrictions
- Item rules-based configuration
- Complex system modelization (product/sub product)
- System and product constraints
Pleiade
where it adds value
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the key features
Pleiade saves you time and effort
It makes configuration documentation so easy that it does not require special skills or staff support
It enables product configuration aligned with product line requirements
It’s ultra-quick, filtering about 200 000 lines of BOM with 1060 combinations in the blink of an eye
It allows product customization
- Easy items differentiation between product family range and customer product definition
- BOM comparison
- BOM realignment vs. current product baseline
It enables BOM and operation export to ERP
Pleiade empowers real-time collaboration
It provides your cross-functional teams with shared views of BOM management applied to your unique business unit data model
It tracks modifications through a simple and powerful configuration management process
It tracks product evolution through planned group change
It uses common product architecture—master data of the product line
- Catalogs of product lines: a list of models with possible variants and their constraints
- Multiple views or perspectives: such as engineering, manufacturing, Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO), and so on
- Composition: configuration rules
It uses Digital Mockup (DMU) integration based on part positioning
- Parts position computation in multi-coordinate systems
- Complete or partially configured mock-up visualization : multiple Computer-Aided Design (CAD) systems and viewers available
- Center of gravity for configured product
It manages user access rights according to business role and responsibilities in the product breakdown structure
Pleiade improves your quality and standardization
It monitors product line design progress and quality, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to master complexity
- Identify inconsistency within product structure
- Propose rule simplification
- Improve product structure completeness
- Avoid unnecessary combinations study
- Provide analysis of variant combination coverage
It automates attribute calculations (e.g. mass or cost calculation) with user-defined formulas in an Excel-based format
Where Pleiade adds value to
your company division
Your sales force
Keep sales department aware of what can or cannot be proposed
Assist sales department to build user-friendly, tailored configuration for customer with accurate pricing
Your operations
Engineering
- Reduce time and skill complexity to create and maintain product documentation
- Drive engineering forces for a range of configurations identified by the marketing department
- Standardize customization
- Monitor completion of your product configuration
- Validate not just specific configurations but the whole product range
Manufacturing
- Design product and process at the same time
- Keep the process standard even if the final product is highly variable
- Design workstations, operations and tools independently but in sync with engineering structure
Support
- Anticipate spare parts supply
- Track vendor information independently of engineering and/or manufacturing management
Your executive and management
Executive
- Design, manufacture and sell large volumes of highly variable products
- Offer more to your customers while reducing internal complexity
- Keep manufacturing prices low
Project Manager
- Reduce time and skill complexity to create and maintain product configuration
- Manage change orders on demand and their chronology
Chief Information Officer
- Easy deployment : automatic update, access rights management, out-of-the-box or customized profiles, LDAP authentification
- Ease of use : such as multilinguals and large display
- Data model customization : subtypable, user-defined attributes through text, list, image, boolean and URL datatype)
- Migration and data initialization through tabular files
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