Extended variant handling (variant codes)

Instead of manually selecting/de-selecting task for different variants, it’s possible to use a more advanced product specification letting AVIX  creating the specific variant.

A variant code is a symbol or a designation for a configuration option for the product. The code can symbolise widely varying things, such as e.g. a particular market (EU, USA, Japan etc.) or an engine option on a car (gasoline, diesel).

The basic idea then is that a variant code symbolises one or more changes to the product or to the process.

A variant can, but does not necessarily, belong to a variant group. A variant group consists of several variant codes that cannot occur simultaneously. Taking market as an example once again, Market is therefore a variant group and EU, USA and Japan are variant codes within this group. The same applies to engine options. A car has either gasoline or a diesel engine.

Variant codes are created in AVIX  in the tab called Variant Codes