Research and Development

Innovation gives you a competitive edge

CAS Software AG is known for constant innovation. In the area of product configuration, we work on various subjects in research projects with our national and international partners. We are working on innovative solutions in the following areas:

Efficient work with very large volume of data and the corresponding system of rules
New ways of formalizing and displaying rules
Flexibly changing between products with different sets of rules (e.g. products of different producers or different product lines)
Similarity of configured products
Model-driven maintenance of the set of rules
Integrated support of sales processes for configurable goods with several suppliers ("Supplier Relationship Management")

Research projects and corporations

The following research projects and scientific institutions are closely involved in the further development of the CAS Configurator Merlin:

ATHENA (Advanced Technologies for Interoperability of Heterogeneous Enterprise Networks and their Applications) - EU Integrated Project (IP), 2005-2007.
ESTIMATE (Intelligent Supplier Relationship Management for Engineering-To-Order manufacturing) - Eurostars Project, 2009-2010

Publications

Michael Klein, Ulrike Greiner, Thomas Genßler, Jürgen Kuhn, Matthias Born: Enabling Interoperability in the Area of Multi-Brand Vehicle Configuration ( 230 KB). 3rd International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications (I-ESA 2007). Funchal, Portugal, March 2007.
Michael Klein, Thomas Genßler: CAS Configurator Merlin: Model-driven data maintenance to achieve the full potential of a configuration system - Focus on the Aviation Industry ( on request). White Paper. May 2009.

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