The Product Configurator is a supplement to MONITOR. It provides system support to manage and combine several variants and models of a product.
By using a basic design you can, according to the set rules, compose different variants and create different models, and then calculate prices and create a manufacturing order.
The Product Configurator is integrated in the system and means an expansion with a number of procedures to register and maintain the basic data that is needed for product configuration.
The basic data consists of a basic preparation plus a configuration group where alternatives and rules for the product variants are specified.
In addition to this, there are also expanded functions in the calculation and order procedures where the parts and product variants are configured, and other functions to administer and show configuration statistics.
The Product Configurator in MONITOR can be seen as an alternative to the existing alternate preparation. In the alternate preparation you use a complete "maximum preparation" as a basis where all possible material and operations are listed, and with aid of rules you decide which of these will be included or not in the preparation for a certain alternate preparation code, revision, order, customer code, quantity or period.
When using the Product Configurator you will instead use a stripped basic preparation or "mini-preparation", that is, you include only the items that will always be included in the product and that is not in any way optional. In a configuration, you then select how the product should be created by using different selection groups, selection alternatives, rules and variables, if it is a custom-made product. The configuration is made in connection with e.g. order registration, calculation, quoting etc.
That is, in order for a product to become complete with the Product Configurator, you must have a basic preparation that is linked to a configuration group which describes and governs the available alternatives for the product.
Description of how a basic preparation plus a configuration constitutes a complete product.