Variant management with VULCAN

With sustainable variant management, you can control and shape the diversity of your service portfolio far beyond mere product configuration.

VULCAN supports you in sustainable variant management.

By sustainable variant management, we mean, as a first step, analysing your existing parts master in your ERP or PDM system. To do this, the VULCAN Variance Analyser app uses AI-supported text analysis to process the part descriptions in the parts master and suggests part groups, variant parts and material characteristics in order to optimise the management of your product variance.

Once the variant parts and their characteristics have been defined and specified, the next step is to train neural networks with completed order data, thereby learning from past product configurations.

Once set up, the VULCAN product configurator app can even be controlled via chat, enabling products to be automatically configured, prices determined and quotations issued immediately (CPQ) from a purely textual enquiry using NLP (natural language processing).

Optimise your CPQ process with AI tools from classix

Our classix.ai server provides NLP services that enable direct understanding of language.

Our JANUS App Suite provides VULCAN with neural networks that you can train using past product configurations. This allows you to accelerate the determination of product characteristics safely and efficiently.

With the chat interface from our METIS App Suite, product configurations can be generated using voice commands alone.

Variant management turned upside down

Don't start by defining parts and determining variance using complex rules. No, first determine the variance and then let the parts define themselves automatically.

Variance begins in engineering by parameterising parts, drawings and parts lists.

VULCAN imports this CAD data and creates parameterised parts with parameter-controlled parts lists.

New product configurations are only created by specifying the parameters. These are exported from VULCAN to the leading ERP system as parts, parts lists and work plan data.

Use VULCAN - where and how you want.

Regardless of the device or operating system, you can use VULCAN from anywhere. All you need is a standard browser and a network connection.

Advantages at a glance

Know How
ClassiX Software GmbH is a member of the VDMA industrial working group on variant management and has made a significant contribution to the VDMA guide “Variant Management”.

Speed
Fast exchange of information with upstream and downstream systems through business process integration.

Design and management tool
Comprehensive tools for part master analysis, design and management of product variants and calculation of prices and costs.

Ease of use
VULCAN has an easy-to-use application interface and is also available in the classix.cloud.

Simplicity
Low effort for installation and operation.

Integrity
Data can be easily exchanged with surrounding systems via various interface formats.

Expandability
Through further development on the basis of the CyberEnterprise business OS.

Prices

Option 1

VULCAN classix.cloud
Monthly lease SaaS

21063€

Net price: 177.00€

price per concurrent user and month
for annual payment in advance

only one session (client) is possible per Concurrent User License
All indicated prices are final prices including VAT.
Minimum term 3 years

Option 2

VULCAN on premise
Buying license

7,28042€

Net price: 6,118.00€

price per concurrent user
one time

only one session (client) is possible per Concurrent User License
All indicated prices are final prices including VAT.
* Net price support and update service: 1,040.06€