Challenges
Procurement decisions based on cost and product configuration
Companies that produce Medium Voltage Switchgear (MVS) offer their customers projects that vary from supplying just panels for replacement to large amounts of MVS.
Usually, MVS is designed to customize and offer unique features to their customers, which designers configure first as electric equipment and then as mechanical parts.
Because of complexity of MVS, companies need to speed up the procurement phases and calculate costs with a high level of accuracy, to send the request for Proposal to their most convenient suppliers as soon as possible.
Solution
Precise cost calculation through an assisted Configuration System
Our customers’ engineers, supported by Configuratori and our partners like Siemens PLM, created an assisted configuration system that helps designers design and configure panels, switchgear cabinets, cabinet lines, and rooms.
For each magnitude level, costs are calculated correctly because the prices of all the standard parts from every supplier are stored in a database and, therefore, easy to roll up. In addition, special items have a proper room in the evaluation process.
The system outputs are the BOM list, the offer document, CAD models, 2D graphs for the single line diagrams, and the switchgear arrangement in a room layout.
In addition, the configurators simulate the costs from every supplier to identify the most convenient one, given a particular configuration of the entire switchgear system.
