When no existing variant covers a requirement, clarification begins. What exactly is affected, who assesses it, and what remains open? The proposal needs this answer before it is committed.
Late discovery
Gaps often become visible only after the commitment, when detailed planning begins.
Unclear effort
As long as impact and responsibility are not recorded, the effort remains a guess.
Lost link
In distributed workflows, changes lose their link to the original customer requirement.
GUIDED WORKFLOW
Select a step. The “Adaptation required” card becomes more complete with every step. The connection to the original source remains visible in every step.
INPUT
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SUPPORT FROM DECOTA
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YOUR TEAM’S ACTION
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RESULT
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ENGINEER-TO-ORDER
This is about requirements that no existing product fulfills. Affected assembly, measure, responsibility, and open questions are recorded. Design, change management, and project costing remain in your tools.
FOR COMPARISON · CONFIGURE-TO-ORDER
Product matching selects from the existing portfolio. Only when a gap remains there does the development question begin.
Match products and variants →WORK RESULT
A change list linked to the customer requirement. It shows what is affected, which measure is due, who is responsible, and what is still open. The effort is assessed and documented by your team.
CHANGE LIST · PACKAGING LINE NORTH
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLER-024 · THROUGHPUT
Adapt drive of conveyor module FM-2
Engineering · S. Weber · Effort: to be assessed
R-041 · CONTROL SYSTEM INTERFACE
Develop new OPC UA connection
Control engineering · K. Bauer · Effort: assessed by the team, approval by technical leadership open
R-033 · FORMAT CHANGE
Provide measurement report for variant B
Application engineering · M. Hartmann · no development, evidence open
Red only for items the department has explicitly confirmed as critical. No replacement for CAD, PLM, or project costing.
BENEFITS
BEFORE
Engineering receives a deviation without source, context, or owner.
AFTER
Requirement, source, assembly, and owner are together on one card.
Metric: queries at handover
BEFORE
Development needs are discovered after the commitment.
AFTER
The development question arises directly from the deviation, while the inquiry is still in progress.
Metric: time to clarify a gap
BEFORE
The same question is asked anew with every similar inquiry.
AFTER
The clarified development question remains retrievable with result and rationale.
Metric: repeated clarifications for the same requirement
Your potential time savings
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BEFORE THIS
The deviation from which the development question arises comes from the variant comparison with evidence and assessment.
To the application →WHAT COMES NEXT
If an assembly is purchased, the affected requirements can be compiled as a package for suppliers.
To the application →No. The effort is assessed and documented by your team. DECOTA records what is affected, who is responsible, and what remains open.
No. Design, change management, and costing remain in your systems. DECOTA connects the development question with the customer requirement, the source, and the owner.
Product matching narrows down existing variants (configure-to-order). Here, the new development work required is clarified (engineer-to-order).
Bring a requirement that your portfolio does not cover today. We show the path to an assessable development task.
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