Case Study: Erhardt+Leimer accelerates product configuration and 3D model delivery with Lino and Tacton

Millions of variants, one solution

Erhardt+Leimer, a specialist in web guiding systems, faced significant challenges in managing its highly complex product range, which offered up to 14 million variants. Their manual configuration process via SAP was time-consuming, and custom customer requests for 3D models often required lengthy engineering involvement, creating a bottleneck. The vendor Lino, alongside Tacton's configurator and design automation, was brought in to address this.

The solution implemented by Lino provided an end-to-end digitalized process powered by intelligent rules and powerful tools for 3D visualization. This allowed sales staff to configure valid products without deep engineering expertise, drastically reducing the time for complex designs from several hours to under 20 minutes. Customers now receive error-free 3D models immediately, and OEMs can configure, price, and order products directly online, giving Erhardt+Leimer a major competitive advantage.

Erhardt+Leimer

Michael Spatz

Team Leader Mechanical Development