Smart Variant CON 2024 | we.CONECT Global Leaders GmbH | 22 June 2024 | Hotel Palace Berlin, Budapester Str. 45, 10787 Berlin, Germany

The largest event for variant and complexity managers in mechanical and plant engineering and in the manufacturing industry
The largest conference on the subject of product variance and complexity management is entering its 11th round! Meet over 200 complexity, product and R&D managers and discuss how to handle variance, practical methods for calculating and reducing complexity and solutions for efficient configuration. This conference is the annual meeting of the community in June in Berlin - don't miss the opportunity to put your current projects and strategies to the test with more than 200 experts and to evaluate the latest ideas, technologies and challenges. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Key Topics:
• Reduce development, logistics and production costs without restricting the variety of variants and customer-specific products too much
• How can a working balance between product diversity and manufacturability be achieved?
• Why classic approaches to strategy development in variant management no longer work and how companies can find new, effective approaches
• The challenge of variance and the life cycle: What kind of rethinking is required in the departments, in IT and in management
• Essential criteria and strategic approaches of innovative solutions: what are the challenges and how can they be mastered?
• Variability as a complexity driver in networked product and system development and manufacturing
• What drives complexity and how can complexity be quantified?
• How can needs-oriented customer understanding through rigorous analysis help to better understand variant drivers in the portfolio?
• Establishment of an integrated variant management concept: Linking of configuration management, product data management, common parts management and product lifecycle management
• How can complexity costs be estimated as precisely and effectively as possible?
• How can the complexity costs be influenced by internal and external complexity drivers?
• How can the consequences of new product variants be estimated or calculated?
• Model-based estimation of complexity costs and efficient handling of variant diversity
• Cost transparency and analysis of optimization potential as the basis of holistic complexity management
• How can variety and product complexity be managed along the value chain?
• How companies can successfully master the pressure to innovate caused by changing markets and new developments

2023 Past Speakers

Byron Wells
Solution Manager, Plan Software

Ralph Depfenhart
Program Manager Plm, Rolls-Royce

Gonzalo Marcon
Holistic Variant Management, Schaeffler

Felizitas Heilmann
Head of Development Electric Motors for Motion Control, Siemens

Bertram Pamminger
Head of Engineering Process Embedded Analytics, Daimler Truck Ag

Sebastian Krause
Director Market Fulfillment, Drager

Harald Lukosz
Head of Engineering, Rexroth

Lionel Tamo
Head Corporate Masterdata, Stobag

Martin Pfister
Md, Karcher

Vasil Tenev
Senior Systems Engineer, Fraunhofer

2024 Partners

EVENT LEAD PARTNER:
• Configit

BUSINESS PARTNERS:
• Eggheads
• Tacton
• Palma
• Boole Works
• DSC Software + BDF Experts
• ILC
• CadBas
• Plan Software
• CAS Merlin
• SAE
• Schuh & Company
• Encoway
• Camos
• Prostep
• Two Pillars
• Project Partners