Gears

About Gears

A Feature-based PLE Factory is much like a typical manufacturing factory except that it operates on digital assets rather than physical parts. To establish the factory, your organization creates a “superset” supply chain of digital assets that can be shared across the entire product line. These digital assets are equipped with all the feature options offered in the product line. The features chosen for each product are specified in the Bill-of-Features, then, a product asset instance is created by the Gears product configurator. The PLE Factory, based on Gears, becomes your automated production system for assembling and configuring the shared digital assets based on the features selected for each product variation, with the push of a button. With BigLever’s Gears, your organization has a common set of PLE concepts and constructs that augment your tools and assets, which allows engineering processes to flow cleanly and efficiently across the full lifecycle.