Configurator

"Design Automation" redirects here. For the automation of electronic circuit design, see Electronic design automation. For automation of other designs, see Computer-automated design.
This article is about personnel who configure systems. For the application developed by Apple Inc., see Apple Configurator.

Configurators, also known as choice boards, design systems, toolkits, or co-design platforms, manage combinations of hardware and software components. Three primary features of configuration systems are identified by European professors Nikolaus Franke Frank T. Piller as: variations that are represented and guide users through the process; delivers visualized feedback for design variation; and integrates user choices into the product specifications, and communicates the specifications to manufacturing systems.

Though the term “configurator” or “configuration system” is often referenced in literature, but commonly references a software tool. There is little empirical research regarding user interactions with the toolkit, for which Franke and Piller proposed a research agenda, wherein the success of the system is defined by several factors: technological capabilities; integration in the supply chain; facility for hands-on learning; user and result satisfaction; and brand integration.

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