(Configit: Copenhagen, Denmark) -- In today’s manufacturing industry, it’s no longer enough to simply “build” products. Customers expect tailor-made solutions, short delivery times, and customized product variants at catalog prices—and all this with the efficiency required by standard processes. At the same time, internal and external complexity, product variety, and the pressure to establish end-to-end digital processes are increasing.

The combination of Configit—the market leader in configuration life cycle management (CLM)—with adesso FIRE, the established framework for configuration and automation, opens up new perspectives for companies facing precisely these challenges.

What makes this combination so special is not just technological compatibility—it’s the shared vision of finally thinking about configuration in a consistent and integrated way, from the initial rule concept to automated order generation—in other words, “from idea to operations.”

Product configuration reimagined: From rules to reality

Configit enables the importing and processing of rule sets from external systems such as PLM, ERP, and PIM, and can validate and supplement these rule sets on a model-based premise. Configit Ace also provides co-pilots that use artificial intelligence (AI) to enable efficiency gains of up to 90%. This modeling, maintenance, and validation of configuration rules is particularly important for highly complex products—and delivers exclusive performance, even with millions of variant combinations. The key feature is virtual tabulation technology, which executes the configuration logic once and makes all configuration data available consistently—from engineering to sales, operations, and service.

But for configuration to be operationally effective, it has to go further: The rules are dynamic and “live” throughout the life cycle in real business processes. This is where adesso FIRE comes in. As a configuration-driven integration platform, adesso FIRE links existing ERP, CRM, PLM systems, and many others, including some proprietary IT systems (legacy), which are necessary and essential for the end-to-end process within order processing. This ensures that product configurations are seamlessly transferred into reality—into quotations, 3D visualizations, engineering models, drawings, parts lists, production orders, NC programs, test plans, spare parts lists—in short, into the entire order processing system.

End-to-end means: From the idea to the order

With the integration of Configit Ace and adesso FIRE, “from idea to operations” is no longer a promise but a concrete process advantage. Companies benefit on several levels.

Centralized rule logic: Modeled rules for all systems are available centrally in a consistent and synchronized manner without multiple mapping, media breaks, and shadow logic.

Guided sales processes: Based on validated product models, sales staff or end customers can configure variants in CRM or e-commerce systems—securely, correctly, integrated, and automatically transferable.

Automated order generation: adesso IRE interprets configuration results and generates directly executable orders, processes, and work steps—including material master data, parts lists, production plans, 3D models, production data, quality data, and all necessary documentation.

Configuration across all levels of complexity: With its structure, adesso FIRE specifically addresses CTO+/ETO complexity, while Configit provides an open, market-leading solution in the configure-to-order segment with Ace and the Configure module. Together, they create seamlessly integrated configuration and processing regardless of the level of complexity.

Orchestration of all process variants in order processing: adesso FIRE not only supports all levels of complexity but also offers the option of translating the configuration result, generating process variants and work cards from it, and thus integrating, controlling, and automating all relevant systems, services, and teams within order processing.