Consulting
Consulting
Partner with Experts to Achieve Short- and Long-term Business Outcomes
Our Consulting Services
Formulate Strategy and Goals
Align your organization around a shared vision of your composable business, quantify the value and plot a path of value creation.
We partner with you to:
Create Products and Solutions
Embed market drivers, functional requirements and company strategy into the architecture of your products, enabling you to configure optimal solutions through a connected modular information model.
We partner with you to:
Empower People and Enable Processes
By connecting strategy to modular structures and people to processes, we create new ways of working that embed strategic, market-driven modularity into your organization. This enables confident and consistent execution of your goals.
We partner with you to:
Operate Information Model and Architecture
We implement a shared modular information model that spans all company functions and adapts to your evolving needs. This enables you to unlock your full potential through operationalizing your modular architecture and configuration.
We partner with you to:
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
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.
Typical Outcomes for Companies Working with Modular Management:
Reduced Complexity and Costs
Achieve cost-effective customization with modular architecture consulting, enabling tailored products, optimized costs, and faster time-to-market.
Sustainable Success and Regulatory Excellence
Streamline compliance with sustainable modular designs, reducing redesigns, costs, and positioning companies as eco-friendly leaders.
Accelerated Time-to-Market
Accelerate innovation and reduce development time with a modular strategy, enabling efficient R&D and quick response to market demands.
Enhanced Flexibility
Improved Market Responsiveness
Increased Profitability
Product Architecture
Market Architecture

Process Architecture

Service Architecture
Modular architecture makes it easy to integrate IoT and smart systems into HVAC products. Standardized interfaces ensure smooth incorporation of new technologies, future-proofing your product lines.
Solutions to Fulfill Build-to-Stock Operations
Modular Product Architecture

Scalable Production Processes

Solutions to Fulfill Build-to-Order Operations
Configurable Modular Systems

Digital Configuration Tools

Build-to-Stock (Catalog-Based) Products
Residential Mini-Splits and Multi-Splits

Commercial Packaged Air Conditioners and VRF Systems

Packaged Terminal Air Conditioners (PTACs)

Build-to-Order (Configure-to-Order and Engineer-to-Order) Products
Chillers and Large Commercial Systems

Industrial Cooling Towers and Air Handlers

Air-Tech Solutions
Air-Tech specializes in advanced air handling, filtration, and ventilation systems for healthcare, industrial, and cleanroom environments. Its solutions prioritize energy efficiency, modularity, and high-performance filtration to meet strict air quality standards.
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.

Accelerated Product Development
Reduce product development time by implementing modular design principles that enable faster prototyping and easier customization.
Cost Reduction
Lower production costs and streamline operations by standardizing components and reducing part numbers.

Increased Flexibility
Quickly adapt to regulatory changes and evolving consumer demands with a flexible, modular product system.
Enhanced Product Assortment
A modular approach expands product lines by combining modules to meet diverse market needs. This strategy enables mass customization, delivering tailored solutions efficiently and cost-effectively.

Sustainability
Design products with modular components that are easier to upgrade, repair, and recycle, supporting sustainability goals.

Integrated New Technologies
Integrate new technologies faster with modular design principles that make it easy to add smart features, IoT, and AI without extensive redesigns
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 & Goals
Mobilize Strategy and Connect to Actions
Realize Goals to Consistently Achieve Targets
Create Products & Solutions
Architect Products to Master Complexity
Configure Solutions to Act with Agility
Empower People & Enable Processes
Empower People to Operate with Clarity
Enable Processes to Create Effective Ways of Working
Operate Information Model & Architecture
Unify Information to Drive your Business
Operate Modular Architecture to Harvest the Potential
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.

Our Solutions
We infuse new capabilities through our unique expertise, technology, and change leadership.
Build Lasting Capabilities
Connect For Growth
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PALMA Composer enables robust modularization and resilient product strategies, ensuring your portfolio stays ahead.
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PALMA Configurator seamlessly integrates configuration models across systems, delivering configuration capabilities wherever they are needed.
Enable your Organization
Empower your organization with Modular Management’s Expert Services: Advisory, Managed Services, and Academy. Access thought leaders, proven frameworks, and specialized training to accelerate modular transformations. From strategic guidance for your management team to practical support in architecture and configuration, our expert services are here to help.
Proven Results
Discover the key outcomes and KPIs our clients have reached through our solutions.

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50x market offerings
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75% reduction in part numbers
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Quotation lead time reduced from 7 Days to 1

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40% reduction in part numbers
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25% faster product development
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Over $1 Billion in added shareholder value

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58% reduction in part numbers
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15% decrease in product costs
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10% reduction in operational expenses

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45% faster development
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43% fewer unique parts
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50% faster assembly
Proven Results
Discover the key outcomes and KPIs our clients have reached through our solutions.
50x market offerings
75% reduction in part numbers
Reduction in quotation lead time from 7 Days to 1
40% reduction in part numbers
25% faster product development
Over $1 Billion in added shareholder value
58% reduction in part numbers
15% decrease in product costs
10% reduction in operational expenses
45% faster development
43% fewer unique parts
50% faster assembly

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50x market offerings
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75% part number reduction
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Quotation lead time reduced from 7 Days to 1

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40% part number reduction
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25% faster product development
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Over $1 Billion in added shareholder value

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58% part number reduction
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15% decrease in product costs
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10% reduction in operational expenses

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45% faster development
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43% fewer unique parts
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50% faster assembly

















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.
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.
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.
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.
Transforming Industries Worldwide
Empowering leading industries worldwide – Customers across the globe trust Modular Management to drive growth and innovation

Johnson Controls Hitachi (JCH): Market Segmentation and Modularity Implementation
The story explores the challenges of creating customer personas, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and utilizing analytics to optimize market representation. Discover how JCH leverages modularity and strategic insights to drive growth in a rapidly evolving market.
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
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