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	Configuration    Services for the individual adaptation of your hardware and software products We provide you with a comprehensive package of services for the individual adaptation of your hardware and software components to meet the specific needs of your customers.   Configuration The challenge Your challenge throughout is to ensure the reliable and efficient execution of these configuration processes – as flexibly and quickly as possible: Although individualization and standardization are both clear trends in the global capital goods market, they actually preclude one another. On the one hand, you customers require equipment and systems tailored to their individual requirements and applications, to help them compete in the international arena. On the other hand, your core competence lies in the development and marketing of innovative products. To do so, you strive to optimize your development and manufacturing costs while minimizing inventory risks. So, you strive for the greatest degree of standardization in your product spectrum -- which is opposite to the product individualization required by customers. Resolving this conflict of objectives is decisive to your success: The modular design of your products and the use of easily-combined standard components create the basis for this success. Using mass customization, you can manufacture specific customer products economically by individually configuring standard hardware and software components. This requires an established infrastructure, the creation and operation of which, however, is very, and often prohibitively, expensive. Our solution Our Configuration-Program enables individual program design, allowing you to adapt configuration services to your technical requirements and product variants, supplemented by optional services as needed. This includes updates and upgrades, assembly, modification of equipment. Equally important parts of the program are disposition, warehouse management and supply chain management. This, in turn, enables you to satisfy the individual requirements of your customers at optimal cost – by letting us handle the technical and logistic processes involved in configuration.Our worldwide configuration centers have the technical and logistics capability to configure specific customer equipment. Good reasons for Configuration Avoidance of capital investment in a service infrastructure through co-use of the established, global configuration network of Siemens Optimization of your costs for the configuration of your products through more efficient processes Reduction of inventory through optimized variant management Rapid reaction to market requirements without sacrificing your production efficiency Reaction to regional product requirements, even with centralized material disposition