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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.

Improve the visual buying experience for your customers. Provide your customers with a visual selection experience during their research and engagement. Sales channels will gain a competitive advantage and accelerated path to conversion. And you’ll be able to sell products quicker by eliminating costly errors and duplication of effort, while speeding up the sales cycle. Drive interest generation through fulfillment with a single solution across the enterprise. Grow the number of opportunities and generate more quotes through an intuitive and efficient quoting solution. Meet customer requirements with shortened quote-to-delivery times. Improve win rates with less dependency on internal staff. Automatically create accurate proposals and downstream fulfillment information. Accelerate new product introduction by adapting quicker to market demands.