PLM Core

Planned

Option and Variant

Modeling product variability without exploding the part catalog or breaking BOM reuse across configurations.

Why this matters

Option and variant management is what separates a product family from a list of similar products. Done well, it preserves reuse at the BOM level.

What this page will cover

  • Modeling variability with options vs. variants vs. expressions
  • Rules and constraints
  • Validation across configurations
  • The "explode the catalog" failure mode