Smart configuration starts with the right foundation.
Variant management
When your product lines grow, clarity becomes increasingly important. As this complexity builds, Variant Management helps you keep control of every version and configuration. In turn, your teams follow the same structure and stay aligned. As a result, decisions remain consistent from concept through delivery – even as the number of variants increases.
Keep every variant aligned – from idea to launch
With Variant Management in 3DEXPERIENCE, your teams work from the same product definitions, reuse proven solutions, and manage versions without confusion. By creating one clear setup for configurations and rules, you maintain consistency from design all the way to delivery — even as your product range grows.
All product information lives in one connected environment – design data, configuration rules, and market options. Since every variant follows the same structure, your updates and decisions flow through the entire product landscape instantly. Engineering, product management, and sales all work from the same source of truth, which reduces misunderstandings and keeps the whole organization moving in the same direction.
Why a Variant Management solution?
Variant Management in 3DEXPERIENCE brings data, rules, and teams together in one clear structure. By connecting everything in one place, you create a setup that stays consistent as your product range grows.
Set clear rules.Define product options and dependencies that apply across the entire range, so that in turn every new variant starts with the right logic.
Work from one source. Engineering, design, and commercial data stay aligned in the same system, which reduces friction and speeds up collaboration.
Start faster. With ready-to-use templates, you can create and launch new variants without rebuilding work from scratch – saving both time and effort.
Stay up to date. As rules or requirements change, the system applies updates automatically across all variants, ensuring your product information stays current.
See the full picture. Dashboards and reports deliver instant insight, which in turn lets you make informed decisions earlier.
With Variant Management, your teams reduce complexity, keep data consistent, and manage growing product families with confidence — from design to market launch.
Frequently asked questions
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What are the benefits of 3DEXPERIENCE?
Design, share, manage and invent differently
Approach your innovation differently by combining forces from R&D, engineering, production, marketing and even your customers and manufacturing partners in the same holistic environment. De-siloing your organisation, embracing talent diversity and opening up for external input empowers your creativity and makes you innovate.
Shorten time to market
Competition is fierce – this is the case in most industries. Your competitive edge hinges on your ability to bring your innovations to market fast. With 3DEXPERIENCE you can iterate designs in sync with your colleagues, test performance, keep everyone updated and share your designs with manufacturers and customers – quickly and easily. 3DEXPERIENCE introduces the structure you need to connect your organization, strengthen collaboration, accelerate your innovation and thereby shorten your time to market.
Differentiate
By connecting people, ideas and data in a continuous cycle, you can distinguish your products to forge true innovation. Track brand performance, product experience and various other key metrics in one central hub. We can help you take full advantage of our technology to create products that meet consumer demand and beat your competition to market.
Increase your productivity
With 3DEXPERIENCE you can implement a continuous digital process that covers all aspects of your business and value chain. 3DEXPERIENCE offers complete transparency for all stakeholders involved in your projects, as the data is centralized and always reflects the latest state of the entire process or innovation project. Users can effectively leverage this real-time perspective and interconnect in one central environment to increase productivity.
How do I get started with 3DEXPERIENCE?
3DEXPERIENCE gives you everything you need to turn your ideas into reality, including design and engineering, manufacturing and production, simulation, project management and collaboration.
The fastest and easiest way to start using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is our FastTrack service. Your organization will be thoroughly introduced to the features and functions by our local experts. To learn more, get access to an extensive range of free educational material on our support site, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
Is my data safely stored in 3DEXPERIENCE?
Yes. Security is at the heart of 3DEXPERIENCE, as your business depends on your intellectual property. The platform complies with the following industry standards and best practises:
ISO 2700x standards (Implementation Guide ISO 27002)
NIST 800 series
OWASP methodologies
CobIT framework
To learn more about security in 3DEXPERIENCE, download our white paper here.
Is 3DEXPERIENCE available on cloud?
3DEXPERIENCE is natively a cloud-based solution and this infrastructure offers you flexibility to stay connected with your team and work from anywhere, at any time, and on any device based on your user rights.
What size company is 3DEXPERIENCE right for?
3DEXPERIENCE is a scalable solution, which offers advantages for companies of all sizes. Different functionalites can be deployed as your company grows and complexity increases. Our 3DEXPERIENCE customer Andreas Lyder from Lifeline Robotics explains:
“3DEXPERIENCE has the capabilities that we may need in the future. The system is not limited, and we don’t need to change system, as it also supports a larger organization. As a small organization, we can use the bits and pieces that we need now, but then we also know, that when we move forward, we can bring in the functionality that we need as we grow.”
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