What if the innovation, economy of scale, competitive advantage, and profitability of your product line were limited only by your imagination instead of your engineering capacity?
Organizations are being pushed to the edge of their capability by the exponentially growing diversity and complexity of today’s product lines — how they are engineered, produced, delivered, and evolved. These variant and complexity management challenges are so large they can impede a company’s ability to achieve strategic business objectives.
Feature-based Product Line Engineering (PLE) is a breakthrough practice that removes this complexity barrier, and BigLever’s onePLE is a holistic solution that removes the barriers to rapid PLE adoption. A growing number of forward thinking organizations are engineering their competitive advantage with the industry leading Feature-based PLE solutions from BigLever. Ask yourself…What is your PLE Strategy?
Time to market.
Leverage major engineering improvements to speed time to market. Target and hit new market windows more efficiently, effectively and profitably than your competitors.
Efficiency & productivity.
Eliminate redundant, repetitive tasks to allow your skilled engineering talent to focus on high value work — and bring a new level of efficiency to your organization.
Product line scalability.
Use feature-based asset sharing and automated production to create new products and product features, and grow your product line — with the push of a button.
Product quality.
Remove human error, simplify and streamline testing and Q&A, and decrease overall defect density to make major improvements in the quality of your product line offering.
BigLever’s onePLE solution.
BigLever’s onePLE is the industry’s only holistic, proven solution to enable rapid and effective adoption of PLE by an organization of any size. It combines our state-of-the-art PLE technology and methods with the business strategy and organizational change needed to accelerate your PLE adoption — so that your organization can fully leverage PLE to create and bring more product innovations to market faster, more efficiently, and more profitably.
BigLever’s PLE Spotlight
Product Line Processes in an Engineering Tool Ecosystem
In a product-centric environment, it’s common for the same engineering work to be repeated over and over - once for each product in the portfolio to which the work applies. Each time a new requirement is added, a software defect is corrected, or a test case is...
Podcast – Utilizing Product Line Engineering
Working smarter, not harder, should be the goal of every organization. Product line engineering makes that possible. Thom Singer and Craig Brown are joined by an expert who knows how to help companies work smarter. Product line engineering expert and VP of Customer...
The Forces of Modularity: Macro and Micro Patterns in the Innovation Ecosystem – Momentum Blog Series
Last but certainly not least, we have Bill Schindel's presentation on The Forces of Modularity. Bill is the President of ICTT System Sciences. Bill’s work for commercial and defense clients and technical societies focuses on recurring patterns in engineered and...
BigLever Names PLE Guru Randy Pitz as Vice President Customer Success
AUSTIN, Texas – December 13, 2021 – BigLever Software, the long-standing leader in Product Line Engineering (PLE), announced today that Randy Pitz, formerly of Boeing, has joined BigLever‘s executive team as the new Vice President of Customer Success. Pitz is a Boeing...
BigLever to Showcase the Power of a PLE Approach in Digital Engineering at NDIA’s Systems & Mission Engineering Conference
AUSTIN, Texas – December 1, 2021 – BigLever Software, the long-standing leader in Product Line Engineering (PLE), announced today that its CEO, Dr. Charles Krueger, will be presenting two papers at the NDIA Systems & Mission Engineering Conference, taking place...
BigLever to Showcase the Significance of Moving to System Family Engineering Thinking at INCOSE Regional Conference 2021
This event has been postponed until further notice. AUSTIN, Texas – November 23, 2021 – BigLever Software, the long-standing leader in Product Line Engineering (PLE), announced today that its CEO, Dr. Charles Krueger, will be presenting at the INCOSE Great Lakes North...
“Product Line Engineering has become a critical technology that will have broad impact across the systems engineering field.”
Feature-based Systems and Software Product Line Engineering: A Primer
INCOSE spearheaded the new ISO Feature-based PLE standard 26580. This INCOSE publication serves as an introductory companion to that standard. The Primer defines Feature-based PLE; introduces its important concepts; explains the economic model behind the overwhelming savings it delivers; discusses organizational adoption; and provides sources for more information.
BigLever is pleased to be a contributor to the creation of this publication, which was selected as “Product of the Year” by INCOSE. >> Learn more about PLE and Systems Engineering.
