CitiusKBE builds custom Siemens NX plug-ins that turn one product family into a configurable variant engine. Consulting-led delivery, tailored to your part logic, your standards, your Teamcenter structure.
It is a CAD customization strategy where one master model, backed by engineering rules and a configuration table, drives every variant in a product family. CitiusKBE designs and delivers the plug-in that makes this work inside your Siemens NX environment, so engineers stop rebuilding similar parts and start generating them on demand.
Typical variant dimensions CitiusKBE captures during a discovery workshop, then encodes into your custom NX toolkit.
Every variant automation engagement rests on three pillars. We consult, we customize, we hand over a production-ready toolkit your team owns.
We start on your shop floor, not in a sales room. Our KBE consultants study your existing NX models, part families and configuration logic.
We design and build a custom NX plug-in that captures your variant logic. No generic templates, no off-the-shelf configurator.
Your team receives the complete toolkit, documentation and training. You own the plug-in, the rules and the underlying logic.
CitiusKBE does not sell variant automation as a subscription product. Every engagement ends with a custom plug-in, delivered and licensed to you, ready to deploy across your NX installation.
CitiusKBE variant generation toolkits deliver highest ROI in engineer-to-order environments with recurring configuration work. Representative figures from client engagements.
| Metric | Before Automation | After CitiusKBE Toolkit | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time per new variant | 6 to 10 hours | 15 to 30 minutes | ▼ 92% |
| Rework cycles per variant | 2 to 4 | < 1 | ▼ 75% |
| Variants delivered per month | 12 to 18 | 60 to 120 | ▲ 5x |
| Quote turnaround | 3 to 7 days | Same day | ▲ 3x |
| Standards compliance rate | 65 to 80% | 98%+ | ▲ 20% |
| Engineer hours on modeling vs engineering | 70 / 30 | 15 / 85 | Strategic shift |
A representative snapshot of the kind of transformation our variant generation toolkits deliver on engineered-to-order product families.
A typical CitiusKBE variant automation engagement: a heavy engineering OEM with 40+ configurations per month across a product family. Design team was spending 60% of bandwidth on repetitive variant modeling.
CitiusKBE mapped the configuration logic, built a custom NX plug-in with rule-driven master model and delivered it as an internal toolkit. Engineers now generate any variant by selecting parameters in a custom NX panel.
Variant generation works best as part of a broader CAD customization strategy. These related capabilities compound the value of a CitiusKBE engagement.
The questions CAD managers and engineering heads raise most often when scoping a variant automation engagement with CitiusKBE.
It is a CAD customization approach where a single master model or configuration logic produces many related product variants. Engineers select inputs and the system generates the correct part or assembly automatically.
CitiusKBE delivers custom CAD plug-ins and NX toolkits tailored to each customer's part families. Engagements start with consulting to study your product lines, then deliver a toolkit your team owns and maintains.
Engineered-to-order products with high configuration volume benefit most. Industrial blowers, boilers, BIW fixtures, press tools, pressure vessels, satellite structures and any product family with 20 or more variants per year are strong candidates.
Parametric modeling handles numeric size changes in a single model. Variant generation manages entire product families, with different features, configurations and topology across variants, all governed by engineering rules.
Yes. CitiusKBE plug-ins can branch logic by end customer, applying different standards, drawing templates or feature sets based on the project context. This is especially useful for OEMs serving multiple downstream customers with distinct requirements.
Variant metadata, part numbers and revision attributes are linked to Teamcenter during plug-in development, so every generated variant flows cleanly into your PLM without manual data entry.
CitiusKBE structures rules and master models for maintainability. Your CAD administrators can add new variants, update parameters or extend the rule engine. For larger overhauls, we offer ongoing support and evolution engagements.