The Anark 3D Build-To-Order Solution provides an interactive 3D feature selection and validation framework.  This advanced yet cost effective solution allows customers to view and customize products in interactive 3D, even before the manufacturing and fulfillment process begins.

The Industry Problem:

• Customer specific product requirements:  Customers and vendors struggle to communicate effectively about custom and optional product configuration choices.
• Difficulties in understanding complex options:  Feature and configuration variations are rarely communicated effectively, thus lengthening the sales cycle and often resulting in customer dissatisfaction.
• Complex sales process:  The sales processes can be expensive, painful and time consuming for each customer engagement.
• Physical sales mockups are expensive and inaccurate:  Models designed to give a customer the ‘look and feel’ of a product are often based upon incorrect engineering data, built with improper materials, incur substantial build costs, and do not properly reflect the final product. 
• Long design times delay part and material production:  Rework and lengthy design processes can put you at a competitive disadvantage.

The Anark Solution:

The Anark Build-To-Order Solution provides a sophisticated 3D visualization environment with the following capabilities:

• Equipment 3D visualization:  Full, High Quality 3D Interactive Equipment/Products providing an excellent overview of your products and product options.
• Kit, feature, and part selection and visualization:  As parts, kits, and features are selected, they become part of the 3D Product.
• Configuration impact assessment:  As features are selected the impact of those items is analyzed, like weight and cost.
• Allowable configuration rules validation:  Parts and features are restricted to designed equipment configurations.  Anark’s proprietary Rules Engine maintains allowable configuration integrity by accounting for variables such as weight, spatial constraints, and cost.
• Bill-of-Material output:  The completed model can be used to output BOMs for Engineering and Manufacturing.
• On-demand 3D graphics and content generation: Create lightweight 3D views from your CAD data for use in your Build-To-Order application.

The Benefits:

• Increase sales revenue:  Achieve significant competitive advantage by offering a sophisticated yet simple way for customers to move through complex product configuration transactions.  Visually accurate 3D applications additionally offer a viable platform for the up-selling of product options.
• Improve sales cycle time:  Real-time identification, selection, and viewing of selected options economize the once laborious process of custom product design.
• Reduce Time to Market:  Rapid visual prototyping and validation reduces heavy design times and provides faster acceptance of product configurations.
• Decrease Engineering Costs:  Intelligent configuration systems with built-in design parameters allow customers to configure products without engineering oversight.  Completed product models can then be directly exported to engineers to initiate the build process.
• Real-time product previews:  Customers can select their assembly components, validate their configuration and attribute choices, and view their product as it develops.  In essence, they build and view their custom product in real-time within a virtual 3D environment.
• Improve manufacturing workflow:  Upon completion, the 3D Product can be used to provide a Bill of Material to engineering and manufacturing, streamlining the interface between sales and engineering.