We, the PLM Green Global Alliance, started our first interviews with PLM-related software vendors two years ago, in 2022, with the initial PLM vendors followed by additional software vendors and implementers who focus on Sustainability.

The list is getting longer, and for some of them, we are now in the second round, learning what has happened in the field with their customers.

You can always read about these interviews on our PLM Green Global Alliance website or subscribe to the YouTube channel: @PLM_Global_Green_Alliance   where we share the interview recordings.

This time, we spoke with Henrik Hulgaard from Configit. I spoke earlier with Henrik about Configuration Lifecycle Management – you can read our discussion here. Now, we talked about the relationship between Configit and Sustainability.

Configit

Configit is not a typical PLM or reporting software provider. They flourish on top of an existing (data-driven) infrastructure in order to provide consistency between all aspects of product design, manufacturing and usage.

In their words:

“We build configuration solutions for manufacturing companies to master the challenges of getting configurable products and services to market faster and selling, manufacturing, and servicing them more effectively.”

We discussed how this is beneficial in the context of Sustainability with Henrik Hulgaard, their VP of Product Management.

Enjoy the 35-minute discussion below:

The slides shown during the interview, combined with additional company information, can be found HERE.

What we have learned

  • Using Configit connected to your configurable products allows you to select the best performance for Sustainability if this is your motivation. It will enable companies to design and deliver configurable products where, in the end, in practice, the customer decides on the optimum configuration, fitting their purpose and ambition.
  • Configurations and Modularity, which are building blocks of the circular economy, go hand in hand and cannot be considered standalone options.
  • Even AI has entered the domain of configuration lifecycle management – we are in the early stages of learning more.

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Conclusion

As a company, there are many ways to provide more sustainable products to your customers, such as by design and by customer choice. With Configit, companies can provide the most sustainable options for their manufacturing process or later support their customers to select the most sustainable options.