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LINKÖPING, SWEDEN — April 17, 2023 — Today, Configura officially launches its latest product: CET Essentials for Material Handling. This new solution allows users to draw layouts in less time using dynamic product placeholders—smart product symbols not attached to a specific manufacturer. Users can design any size warehouse in CET Essentials, then assign specific product brands later in CET Material Handling.
CET Essentials utilizes easy-to-use placement and estimates of material handling systems, realistic 3D renderings and one-click piece counts. The intuitiveness of CET Essentials accelerates the design process; users simply click, snap and stretch 2D and 3D digital symbols that look and behave like real products.
"We've talked to many players in the industry: consultants, 3PLs, strategic planners, and conducted our research on warehouse planning, and we consistently hear the same thing,” said Rich Trahey, VP of Sales & Marketing, Configura. “These teams need to quickly go from a blank sheet of paper to a tangible warehouse concept and then iterate their ideas and alterations between many stakeholders. With CET Essentials, they can make that happen with ease.”
Salespeople and engineers alike can now lay out a storage space digitally using visual components as placeholders, all while collaborating seamlessly. Currently with the Essential Pallet Racking feature, users can add industry standard-sized pallet racking systems to understand how warehouse mechanisms will configure within a space. Future CET Essentials additions will include guarding and deep storage, among other common warehouse staples.
The 3D component of CET offers realistic photo-like renderings, allowing designers and decision-makers to visualize designs and experience their future space. This new dynamic tool makes the design and installation process for material handling spaces faster, easier and more efficient.
After an initial layout is developed, specific manufacturer products and pricing can be implemented using CET Material Handling.
Configura is currently offering free demonstrations of CET Essentials.
About CET Essentials for Material Handling
Developed for 3PLs, integrators, consultants, small manufacturers and warehouse managers, CET Essentials for Material Handling offers ease in designing warehouse spaces while providing a bill of materials in real time. Salespeople and engineers can easily lay out a storage space using visual components and accurate metrics. The 3D component offers realistic photo-like renderings that allow designers and decision-makers to visualize spaces.
Included in CET Essentials is Essential Pallet Racking, a solution that greatly accelerates the design processes and calculations of pallet racking systems, giving users the ability to export product counts and schematics for accurate pricing, specification and ordering. Future CET Essentials additions will include guarding and deep storage, among other common warehouse staples.
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About Configura
Configura creates intelligent space-planning software for manufacturers, dealers and designers in the contract furniture, kitchen and bath, material handling, industrial machinery, and laboratory and healthcare industries. The company’s software products are used worldwide. Configura Sverige AB, the parent company, is headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, with commercial operations in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Shenzhen, China; Tokyo, Japan; and Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1990, Configura is privately owned with 300 employees worldwide and annual sales of more than $25 million USD. More information at www.configura.com.
About CET
Based on technology created by Configura, CET is an intelligent, highly visual and intuitive space-planning software that simplifies specifying and selling of products in a variety of industries. It’s a complete solution that quickly and accurately handles every step of the sales and order process. With environments developed for Commercial Interiors, Kitchen & Bath and Material Handling, the software components represent manufacturers’ products look and behave like actual products. Users drag and drop components into 2D and 3D virtual environments and behind the scenes, the software tracks components, calculates pricing and prevents user errors. Users can create and generate layouts, quotes, photorealistic renderings, movies, installation drawings, reconfigurations and bills of materials – in other words, everything needed to propose on work and place orders. CET is the future of space planning.
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Configura
Founded in 1990, Configura Sverige AB creates software solutions that help businesses and people around the globe design spaces and sell configurable products in the commercial interiors, material handling and kitchen and bath industries. Configura’s software products include CET Commercial Interiors, CET Material Handling, CET Kitchen & Bath, Design Studio, Stage, Spec and more. Configura also has a growing user community of thousands of designers, salespeople, dealerships and manufacturers around the globe that use Configura’s products.Headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, Configura has grown to seven offices with commercial operations in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States; Cincinnati, Ohio, United States; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Shenzhen, China; Tokyo, Japan; and Berlin, Germany. Configura is privately owned with over 300 employees worldwide and annual sales of more than $25 million USD.