Fulfilling your customer requirements is more straightforward and efficient when your product platforms are modularized. Organizations employing modularity achieve a high variety of customized solutions with less complexity and better economy of scale in design for production and operations.

PALMA provides well-grounded methods and tools for handling a configurable product range without placing the burden on your sales organization or the customer for the increased variability. Many companies that rely on SuperBOMs (150% BOM’s) supported by PLM systems find that there are practical limits to their system for modularity and configurability. Conversely, companies with PALMA have a proven, scalable approach to managing complex product configurations. With a modular product platform in place, PALMA ensures products are configured in a generic product structure where the modules are mapped into position.

For software system releases, PALMA provides a management system to track the corresponding modules and module versions. This can be difficult to achieve manually and typically requires a complex configuration management system, as well as tailor-made solutions for each product. PALMA can also provide a hardware specification for software configuration to ensure that the right software is deployed to the hardware configuration.

The result is a custom product portfolio that is efficient to manage and maintain, even with frequent phase-ins of new module variants.