OFS Brands teams with Configura for new design solution service

Configura, maker of CET Designer software, today announced a collaboration agreement with global office furniture designer/manufacturer OFS Brands.

OFS Brands makes furniture and develops logistics solutions for office, healthcare, education, government and home office markets across the world. Configura will develop a CET Designer Extension for OFS Brands product lines.

“We partnered with Configura because the CET Designer platform offers a simple approach to specifying option-rich products. All projects are unique, and designers need user-friendly, accurate tools to tailor solutions for their customers. CET Designer delivers this straightforward yet highly versatile tool for designers to clearly communicate their intent, further instilling confidence and clarity for their customers,” OFS Brands Technology Manager Wes Harper said.

CET Designer helps manufacturers and their dealers and designers to more quickly bring product to market by providing a single software solution for accurately designing, specifying, rendering, ordering and creating installation documents.

CET Designer is Configura’s “core” Parametric Graphical Configuration (PGC)-based software platform; an Extension is an addition to the program with functionality that incorporates all of the rules, parts and pricing of a given manufacturer’s products. Manufacturers invest in proprietary CET Designer Extensions to make selling products easier, faster and more accurate.

“OFS Brands products are ideal for a CET Designer Extension, which will simplify specifying and selling of the products. We had surveyed our CET Designer users, and many said they wanted OFS Brands included in CET Designer. We’re excited about this partnership and welcome the company to the Configura family of manufacturers,” Configura Vice President Peter Brandinger said.

OFS Brands’ CET Designer Extension is planned to launch later this year.