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Consulting

Partner with Experts to Achieve Short- and Long-term Business Outcomes

Our Consulting Services

Configuring your Pathway to Success

From short-term value realization to complete transformation journeys

We work closely with our clients to deliver tailored solutions that build lasting capabilities and drive measurable results. By combining proven methodologies, advanced technology and change leadership, we help businesses achieve the agility and efficiency needed to thrive.

As the global leader in modularity and configurable product architectures, our consulting services accelerate value creation by developing modular systems that enhance product value and reduce complexity. Whether you're developing one-of-a-kind customer solutions or managing high-volume production, we meet you at any stage of your modularity journey and lift your business to new heights.

Our consulting approach covers product management, design, development, sourcing, and supply chains — enabling organizations to optimize modular architectures and thrive in dynamic markets. Along with expertise in complexity costing and information management, we equip your business to achieve sustainable success.

From short-term value realization to complete transformation journeys

We partner closely with our clients to understand their needs and deliver tailored solutions. Using our proven methodology, advanced technology, and change leadership expertise, we build lasting capabilities that drive success.
 
Modular Management is the world leader in creating and implementing modular products and configurable product architectures. Through Consulting and our Palma Software, we ensure accelerated Value Creation for clients by developing products that can deliver quality and cost improvements, that serve a much wider range of your desired market, and products with leading performance and technology offerings to drive premium pricing.

Our experience ranges from one-of-a-kind project-driven products to high-volume consumer businesses and everything in between. Whether you are new to modularity or already a champion, we can lift you to even greater heights.

Our unique know-how covers the disciplines of product management, development, design, sourcing, supply chain, and how to sell modular architectures. This work is supported by our expertise in complexity costing and information management.

We are the pioneers of modularity, transforming how you create value.

Solutions to Fulfill Build-to-Stock Operations

Modular Product Architecture

innovationBy designing products with interchangeable modules, manufacturers can reduce the number of unique parts and streamline assembly processes, lowering costs and accelerating time-to-market. 

Scalable Production Processes

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Solutions to Fulfill Build-to-Order Operations

Configurable Modular Systems

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Digital Configuration Tools

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Build-to-Stock (Catalog-Based) Products

Residential Mini-Splits and Multi-Splits

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Commercial Packaged Air Conditioners and VRF Systems

e-commerceCommon in commercial buildings, these systems offer scalable solutions for spaces ranging from small offices to large commercial areas. Manufacturers focus on high-volume production, cost efficiency, quick installation, and regulatory compliance.

Packaged Terminal Air Conditioners (PTACs)

e-commerceWidely used in hotels and multi-unit residential buildings, PTACs are typically manufactured in large batches and sold through distributors with an emphasis on standardization and ease of installation.

Build-to-Order (Configure-to-Order and Engineer-to-Order) Products

Chillers and Large Commercial Systems

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Industrial Cooling Towers and Air Handlers

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Air-Tech Solutions

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What We Offer in the Consumer and Commercial Appliance Industry

Modular Management, through its platform PALMA, offers a range of solutions tailored to support appliance manufacturers in overcoming industry obstacles, driving growth, and staying ahead of the competition.

Benefits of Modular Architecture

Modular architecture offers a strategic advantage by accelerating product development, lowering costs, increasing flexibility, enhancing product variety, improving sustainability, and enabling the seamless integration of new technologies. These benefits help companies stay competitive and responsive to market demands.

Customer Success

Whirlpool’s Transformation through Modular Product Architecture

Whirlpool, one of the world’s larger appliance manufacturers, partnered with Modular Management to tackle the growing complexity across its vast product portfolio. Facing challenges from global competition and internal inefficiencies, Whirlpool implemented a Modular Product Architecture strategy, starting with microwave ovens and eventually expanding across all product lines. Over an eight-year engagement, this transformation led to a 40% reduction in part numbers, a 25% decrease in product development time, and over $1 billion in added shareholder value. This strategic shift allowed Whirlpool to maintain its market leadership while significantly improving profitability.

Our Consulting Services

Tailored expertise in modularity and configuration to drive agility, efficiency, and lasting success.

Formulate Strategy
Create Products and Solutions

Formulate Strategy & Goals

Mobilize Strategy and Connect to Actions

We develop insights into how modularity can unlock the potential of your strategy across the organization, bridging the gap between its value and the path to realization. By establishing a shared vision, aligning your key stakeholders, and defining a clear roadmap, we create a powerful coalition capable of driving meaningful, scalable, and lasting change.

Realize Goals to Consistently Achieve Targets

We plan your path forward, providing clear direction with measurable KPIs and proven methodologies to drive transformation. By engaging your entire enterprise and aligning teams across functions, we enable smooth execution of the plan. With expert guidance and tools, we ensure your goal

Create Products & Solutions

Architect Products to Master Complexity

We embed market drivers, functional requirements and company strategy into the architecture of your products. By establishing standardized interfaces and an optimized set of interchangeable building blocks, we enable you to offer a broader range of products that evolve with changing needs at a faster pace, all while optimizing cost and complexity.

Configure Solutions to Act with Agility

Compose optimal solutions to any business opportunity and leverage the connected modular information model. Securing and realizing the full value from your modular business architecture in every unique configuration, as well managing the full configuration life cycle for your complete offering.
Enable People Processes
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Empower People & Enable Processes

Empower People to Operate with Clarity​

By connecting strategy with modular structures and connecting people to processes, we enable confident and consistent execution of your company’s goals. Clear frameworks, effective ways of working, and collaborative expertise empower your organization to achieve exceptional outcomes. These capabilities foster alignment, adaptability, and innovation, ensuring long-term success in a dynamic business environment.

Enable Processes to Create Effective Ways of Working

We build new ways of working that weave strategic, market driven modularity into your organization. By enhancing processes to be more module-centric and configuration-enabled and by establishing roles, responsibility and decision models to govern architecture, the company is better built to evolve and maximize value creation over time. ​

Operate Information Model & Architecture

Unify Information to Drive your Business

We implement a shared modular information model that spans all company functions and adapts to your evolving needs. By leveraging our leading technology and expertise, we establish an unbroken digital thread that seamlessly connects your business processes. Through PALMA®, our advanced SaaS solution, we ensure seamless integration, visibility, and adaptability across your entire value chain to drive innovation and efficiency.

Operate Modular Architecture to Harvest the Potential

To build specific capabilities is crucial to secure the operationalization of your modular product architecture, configuration and harvest the full potential of your transformation. Modular Management can help you operate your architecture, while transferring the needed competence and capabilities to your organization.

Powered by the Strength of PALMA Software

PALMA SOFTWARE

In addition to consulting, Modular Management provides world-class software solutions for strategic, data-driven product management. PALMA, now in its third generation, is an enterprise-grade solution designed to define and maintain a modular system throughout its entire lifecycle.

At the core of PALMA is a shared product specification aligned with customer needs, strategic product planning, modularization, and company strategy. This specification serves as the foundation for defining a modular system, complete with advanced functionality for creating and maintaining complex configuration rules that integrate seamlessly with your existing solutions and processes.

PALMA includes the Composer for defining and managing modular architectures and the Configurator for handling complex product configuration needs. As a true Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, PALMA simplifies implementation while ensuring the highest levels of enterprise-grade security, integrity, and multi-user efficiency. Open REST APIs allow seamless integration into your information architecture, accelerating support for modularization, product management, strategic pricing for configurable products, and the governance of your configuration rules.

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Our Solutions

We infuse new capabilities through our unique expertise, technology, and change leadership.

Proven Results

Discover the key outcomes and KPIs our clients have reached through our solutions.

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  • 50x market offerings

  • 75% reduction in part numbers

  • Quotation lead time reduced from 7 Days to 1
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  • 40% reduction in part numbers

  • 25% faster product development

  • Over $1 Billion in added shareholder value
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  • 58% reduction in part numbers

  • 15% decrease in product costs

  • 10% reduction in operational expenses
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  • 45% faster development

  • 43% fewer unique parts

  • 50% faster assembly
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  • 50x market offerings

  • 75% part number reduction

  • Quotation lead time reduced from 7 Days to 1

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  • 40% part number reduction

  • 25% faster product development

  • Over $1 Billion in added shareholder value

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  • 58% part number reduction

  • 15% decrease in product costs

  • 10% reduction in operational expenses

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  • 45% faster development

  • 43% fewer unique parts

  • 50% faster assembly

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Customer Success

Whirlpool’s Transformation through Modular Product Architecture

Cost and Revenue Impact
With brand strategies driving market volumes and price premiums, the cost side results were significant:

 35%  reduction in unique parts
 25% fewer parts per product
 20% reduction in parts costs
 40% fewer platforms
 10% material cost reductions. 

Although harder to identify causality, quantifiable market impacts were also considered remarkable, including significant brand price premiums that even exceeded the cost side results.

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Customer Success

Husqvarna’s Modular Product Architecture Transformation

Cut Time To Market by 50%
To overcome challenges like acquisitions, regional product variations, and low-cost competition, Husqvarna needed to rationalize part numbers, lower costs, and globalize product design. Partnering with Modular Management, Husqvarna implemented a modular design strategy for two leading electric string trimmer brands, achieving annual sales of over 500,000 units.

Results Achieved with Modular Design:
50% faster time to market for new SKUs.
25% reduction in manufacturing costs.
50% fewer resources needed to develop new products.
Significant increase in EBIT margin, even amidst fierce competition.
Reduced inventory levels across the supply chain while maintaining low service call rates.

Business Value Delivered:
Developed a profitable entry-level product.
Freed up resources for more new product development.
Successfully entered new markets with unique product variants.

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Customer Success

Husqvarna’s Modular Product Architecture Transformation

Cut Time To Market by 50%
To overcome challenges like acquisitions, regional product variations, and low-cost competition, Husqvarna needed to rationalize part numbers, lower costs, and globalize product design. Partnering with Modular Management, Husqvarna implemented a modular design strategy for two leading electric string trimmer brands, achieving annual sales of over 500,000 units.

Results Achieved with Modular Design:
50% faster time to market for new SKUs.
25% reduction in manufacturing costs.
50% fewer resources needed to develop new products.
Significant increase in EBIT margin, even amidst fierce competition.
Reduced inventory levels across the supply chain while maintaining low service call rates.

Business Value Delivered:
Developed a profitable entry-level product.
Freed up resources for more new product development.
Successfully entered new markets with unique product variants.

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Customer Success

Husqvarna’s Modular Product Architecture Transformation

Facing rising complexity and fierce competition, Husqvarna partnered with Modular Management to streamline their electric string trimmer product lines. By implementing a modular product architecture, Husqvarna was able to reduce part numbers by 40%, decrease manufacturing costs by up to 25%, and cut time-to-market for new SKUs by 50%. This strategic shift not only improved operational efficiency but also strengthened Husqvarna’s ability to compete in a challenging market, leading to significant gains in EBIT margins and market share.

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ESAB Case Story

Unmatched Outcome of Modular Product Architechture

"A very positive result for us was that we ended up actually having 80% commonality across all different applications, all industries, and all geographies and yet people in the market experienced that they had a much more flexible and configurable product than they ever had before. That was a direct result of modular product architecture."

Mart Tiismann
Former regional management at Eaton Corporation and the product divisions of ESAB

ESAB Case Story

Unmatched Outcome of Modular Product Architechture

"A very positive result for us was that we ended up actually having 80% commonality across all different applications, all industries, and all geographies and yet people in the market experienced that they had a much more flexible and configurable product than they ever had before. That was a direct result of modular product architecture."

Mart Tiismann
Former regional management at Eaton Corporation and the product divisions of ESAB

We Empower Companies to Repeatably Win

As the partner of choice for accelerating agility, scalability and business performance, we infuse critical capabilities in your operations through our unique expertise in strategic modularity, configurability, technology and change leadership. 

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